Beaming someone to a ship and having them fall sideways is perhaps the greatest sci fi joke I've ever seen making me all the more surprised that I haven't seen it before
@@twokool4skool129 I feel like the ability to alter the posture of the body during transport would not be a difficult problem for people with transporter technology.
@@seigeengine do they actually kill original people and than create a clone during the "beaming"? why don't they use it as a weapon to beam parts of other ships away? can they clone obejcts and humans with beaming tech? strange they never explored it on the show
@@CoolGobyFish I'm not a Trekkie but... I believe, in canon, it's meant to not invoke them dying. Practically, I think it's clear that's what it is. It's basically replicator technology at a distance. There are episodes where transporters are used to replicate people who have already died, and where they unintentionally duplicate people in the process of transporting them, so I think it's fairly safe to say these are all possibilities of the technology.
They are also super dismissive of Tasha Yar's concerns before she dies pretty much any time she raises one so go ahead and say they're treating females like second-class citizens like I'm sure you will. Where over here in reality what's actually happening is, the starship captains we've been exposed to through the lens of Trek always take the curious approach, even if warned by their security officer that there could be danger. Or when a peaceful resolution is finally agreed upon between the federation ship and whomever they're in conflict with, sometimes they have to lower the shields to do whatever it is will resolve the dispute between the two groups, the security officer always advises against this, and the captain always gives them a look or some short one liner, they say aye sir and move on. Just like many first officers have said, it is the security officers responsibility and duty to inform the captain and any other superior officers of potential risk presented by varying situations. However, just like it's the responsibility of the second officer to give the captain other optional strategies, it is always ultimately the captains decision. It has nothing to do with Worf being a Klingon, or Tasha being a woman. It is literally just the command structure of the ship being adhered to. Take your 0 trek knowledge and your wildly politicized opinions back to your echo chamber please.
@@dorkmax7073 Sure, but its their core ethical code. It'd be like a vegetarian that eats pork every other day. It's not illegal but is still incredibly silly.
@@zanite8650 They break it in every "limited and specific way" imaginable. It's like breaking all the windows on a building one window per day and calling it "limited".
I love the quick "guy in the view screen turns his head and nods to imply that there's more people in the room to save money on extras". Classic Star Trek
Eh, that hostile alien didn't even have random rubber parts glued to his forehead to. You need to have wacky things glued to your forehead to be alien, everybody knows that!
They're not always right... in practice, they're only right like 95% of the time. And when they're wrong, they usually either change their policy or step down and let someone else drive. This willingness to change when presented with evidence, however, is often framed as a weakness.
@@jesusmora9379 Damn, I almost forgot about the "this metaphor is so obvious blind people can see it" race. I love Star Trek and it spreads good messages, but its metaphors are delivered via sledgehammer. "You see those dumb people hating each other because of their skin?" - the Episode.
@@hafor2846 which came out in a time when there was "no blacks allowed" signs in half the stores of the US. star trek was martin luther king's favorite show...
This kinda makes sense tho, like there are probably differences but only being in contact with people for a few days/months isn't really going to give you a complete understanding of their society. To put it another way, if aliens came to earth they could see that most humans believe in the supernatural but it'd be hard to quickly come to the conclusion that they are different, let alone mutually exclusive. I mean, there isn't even a guarantee that aliens could differentiate the types of orange between humans so they might all look the same.
God I f****** hate Troi, I hate her so much I make sure to read the description of every episode on Netflix before watching it just to make sure it's not a Troi episode
You have the best bald cap Lindy. Barely detectable. I like your creativity with wearing a wig around the edges. All very believable. I bet your real hair is gorgeous.
Pssh talking we don't already know, ships without a universal upness generator might as well be a walking toaster they're so out of date. Hell my friend has a new actual toaster with its own universal upness generator, its very annoying when he mistakes it for the TV remote and the concept of toast suddenly becomes the nonlinear manifold direction of up.
@@Ben-rz9cf At least he isn't stuck with a Red Dwarf " Talky Toaster, Those things NEVER SHUT THE HELL UP about toast and other toaster related food stuffs!
it's always the wrong way the first time. and the second time. and you wonder why it didn't work the first time. has to be some kind of dimensional trick where we can't see a third side.
nailed it ^^ but here is a tip.. the right way to put a usb in the slot is to look at its two holes.. u can see through? ok. that´s the right side. you see a "lil plastic wall"? flip the stick! :)
I totally remember this episode. You left out the shot of Counselor Troi saying, "Captain, I'm sensing hostility" after the alien captain screams "I'm going to eviscerate all of you with a Denobulan wooden spoon!!!" That was a great example of Betazoid insight.
Troi was always so hilariously useless like the bad aliens are like “captain this is none of your business!” And she’s like “captain, i have a vague feeling they’re hiding something.”
@@drisraptor2992 that’s fair and I know she got some dignity back in the later seasons but it’s a bummer to have one of the two series-long (save crusher in season two) main female characters be so chronically useless, but I still like her hahaha
"Thanks to our amazing technological advancements, we have made a glorious utopia." "I'm working on a new technology." "It's evil. Man was not meant to meddle in such things. Destroy it."
@@speedos I'm hardly an encyclopedia, nor have I even watched everything, but I can remember a few on top of my head. Some genetically engineered people who turned out to spread a plague. A phase-through cloaking device. Anything that might get Voyager home faster. Basically, if an episode setup mentions new technology or science experiment, chances are the episode will focus on how it horribly backfires. Conversely, can you mention any episodes where a new technology is introduced, and it turns out to be a good idea that is then implemented?
@@bificommander7472 I don't remember any episodes revolving around new technologies, but the show clearly loves the idea of technological advancement helping humanity. Almost every single episode, the crew saves themselves by their extreme technological know-how and ability to scientifically identify space anomalies. Data is a completely artificial lifeform of unprecedented technology, yet he saves the day several times and many episodes focus on him. In "The Offspring", Data builds a daughter, and it's treated as a wonder, not a danger. In "The Tin Man", they discover an artificial, yet living ship, and they also treat it with respect. In "The Inner Light", Picard goes through an incredible experience because of a technology that has never been seen on the show before.
I'm surprised the ship mockery didn't piss of the enthically-iffy ambassador. Well, enough to shut off the communication, as ethnically-iffy Popular Space Show ambassadors seem to have very low tolerance for almost anything, and becoming super angry over trivial things.
That little glance off-screen and nod from the alien leader is probably the most accurate part of this whole sketch, and that's saying a lot considering how good this sketch is!
@@blitva1 Vimto is a soft drink sold in the United Kingdom. It was first manufactured as a health tonic in cordial form, then decades later as a carbonated drink. It contains the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants (in a 3% concentration), flavoured with herbs and spices. I googled it all by myself.
@@StevesRightJay Was he better in DS9? I gave up on that show after a few episodes. Awful characters, all of them (except maybe O'Brien). Never got to the point where Worf joined.
@@jetuber Which season did you get up to? If you stopped at season 1, that might explain it. It's a little like TNG- the first season is pretty much skippable (except for duet, you HAVE to watch duet, it's great), the second season has peaks and valleys, and then in the third season a major character grows a beard and the show inexplicably improves.
@@jetuber it got way better overall in s4 when worf joined. But I actually thought his arc in TNG was excellent. It keeps going in TNG and he turns out to be even more important to klingon politics, although I didn't like the romance subplot he was in very much. The individual he's with does make sense because they are essentially a klingon warrior too but iirc they didn't emphasize that as much in dialogue. Maybe they were going to try to do more with it if it weren't for that actor leaving the show. There, that should be spoiler free.
The main thing I learned from Popular Space Show is that every alien planet looks like Southern California and they have a maximum of six people living on them.
@@theuncalledfor being post scarcity doesn't make your society socialist nor communist.. as well as becoming socialist/communist doesn't turn your society post scarcity .. typically the absolute opposite People today tend to forget that last part
@@TheyCalledMeT There is no such thing as post-scarcity. Resources will always be limited, unless you're at a tech level that is so high, you can create energy from nothing, and change the geometry and amount of space at your disposal. There is still a limited amount of land on Earth in Trek. You can't just create a copy of the Picard family's vineyard out of nothing, for example. There is still value to property. There are still things some people want, that they cannot have, such as old baseball cards like in DS9. The Federation is communist. You can deny it if you want to be delusional, but that doesn't make them not communist.
@@xxTheFlyingPigxx its got the pompous righteousness down, and obviously the set / props. But aside from that it doesn't really feel specific star trek to me
@@canadian__ninja Doesn't explain why the criticism is wrong. It feels very Star Trek to me. You can immediately tell he's meant to be Picard, the aliens feel very much like TNG aliens (he completely summed up the plot of half of TNG's episodes with that exploding planet gag), and the jab at the ship's 'weird angle' was a nice reminder of how so many sci-fi shows forget that space is not flat.
"We will not leave this planet under any circumstances, even though it is going to be destroyed." "But that planet... is going to be destroyed." "Then we will leave." Welp... that de-escalated quickly
In a full episode, there would be forty minutes of filler dialogue with the other characters . Troy: Captain, I sense that the people of this planet do not wish to leave. Worf: I find their behavior to be dishonorable! Data: I find their behavior to be irrational. Crusher: Their behavior apparently isn't based on sickness, but I'll run some more tests. Riker: Something needs to be done! Captain, I recommend that we do something! Geordi: If we can technobabble the technobabble, maybe we can technobabble. But it is a long shot. Whoopi: Sometimes people don't want to leave because they just don't want to leave. Wesley: Sir, I don't understand. Could you, the Captain of the most important starship in Star Fleet, take time from saving an entire species to unnecessarily explain things to me, the most nonessential person in the universe?
@@joeschembrie9450 I like how Guinan was just Whoopi Also Wesley had some of the more interesting episodes when he was in focus, albeit turning him into space Jesus sent him out with a whimper
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Yes, the same thing happened with Kez on Voyager, when they give your character godlike powers it really just means they're writing you off the show.
Whole alien race represented by one actor on the view screen. Director tells them to look to the side as if they're confering with someone else. You've watched so much Next Gen.
Andreas Katsulas (Tomalok) actually felt uncomfortable when he had to portray Tomalok without a viewscreen in "Future Imperfect." I find that rather fascinating because he was so masterful, right down to his full body language and posture, as G'Kar on Babylon 5. He was so wasted on Star Trek, both as Tomalok and Drennik.
Stating an absolutist position, being contradicted and then immediately capitulating on it is a bewilderingly common trope in the show. Love that little detail.
My headcanon is there's a treaty established "galactic north" that all ships orient themselves to. Just makes ship to ship interaction, travel, and trade a lot easier if everyone is facing the same direction
Nah, ships orient themselves relative to the planet's rotation; there are two option, with or against, but with is the most sensible if you need to take a shuttle down.
My headcanon is that since the shape of the milky way is relatively "flat", that it was decided that the default orientation of the ships would be in one of two directions so that everyone's flying through the disk (that is the galaxy) and not away from it.
@@FreshlyBakedLePain So it's flat then. Because Olympus Mons is flat in the same way that an ordinary piece of photocopy paper is flat, only flatter. Olympus Mons' height is only about 0.3 % of Mars' average radius. Standard 80 gsm paper is around 90 - 100 microns thick but measuring at different positions on a single piece one can easily see it can vary by 10 or more microns above or below its own average. Even a typical softwood fibre thickness of about 0.2 microns adds appreciable texture of more than 2 % where one fibre rides over another especially on the rear.
@@thedripkaiser574 Seinen Kanal promoten. Innerhalb von 30min einen Comment bei einem vermutlich erfolgreichen Video dalassen pusht den eigenen Kanal im Suchalgorythmus. Deshalb haben so viele Videos nichtsagende "lol xD xD"-Kommentare von RUclipsrn drunter.
This is obviously season 6 when the crew got cynical. Were this season 1, it would've been the alien demanding that the other ship orient itself to his point of view and the captain would've obliged because diplomacy meant doing every single thing the aliens of the week wanted no matter how petty or obnoxious.
@@TheEvilCheesecake The other day I saw the crew of DS9 become terrorists after obrien was assaulted by a Jem Haddar and Bashir was told to accept the dominions diverse way of life rather than punish said assault. That couldn't be made today.
It's edited. If you look carefully, you can see that the edges are one colored. Also if you look at 1:01 at 0.25 speed you can see it glitching out a bit.
“Our highly dramatic, semi-tragic love cannot be…. For I am a human and the captain of my ship. And you….. are a pair of sentient pink cylinders, capable of telepathic communication and until our fateful meeting, used to be incapable of understanding love.”
"The Prime Directive is very clear and unambiguous - we must not interfere in the affairs of this planet." "But people on that planet will die!" "I guess we've got to save them."
The worst one was when Picard was fine with abiding with the Prime Directive when a planet was going to be destroyed, but then when he heard a little girl being sad over the comms he immediately changed his mind and massively violated the Prime Directive.
@@ayeforgot8645 glad to see more rep for Stupendium. I feel Dan has already gone mainstream enough that he doesn't really need the extra boost at this point. XD
@@darksunrise957 to be honest, that's part of the reason I said anything, Stupendium definitely deserves so much credit, even for his voicework with Harry101UK
@@LTPottenger Yes, but the transatlantic accent is not "definitively American", because it was used by both British and American actors. Like Cary Grant is famous for using this accent but he was British. It's a purposefully ambiguous accent designed to make movies that they could sell in both markets I think.
Technically if Gunnar Gunnarson had a son named Gunnar, the son would be Gunnar Gunnarson also. Before family names were fixed, naming conventions followed this scheme, if you can indulge a hypothetical genealogy: Karl Fredrikson Gustav Karlsson Sven Gustafsson Erik Svenson Sven Svenson Hålger Svenson Håkan Hålgerson and so on
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Did you miss the part where this was a joke? Because, seriously, my dude. That's an r/whoooosh. (I hope I got the right number of o's.)
Also *discovers aliens do something against our values* "hopefully with time they will discover the error of their ways and that we were right all along"
@Minwon Jang I do like how DS9 is different in how Sisko deals with more complex, difficult situations with no easy choices while on TNG Picard tends to just give a little speech then the Enterprise leaves, roll credits. ENT and BSG have some conundrums that are interesting too. Partially because of how episodic TNG is.
Yes! Aliens on Trek be mostly like three types: 1. "I represent a homogenous alien planet based upon the exaggeration of a single trait of Western culture who exists primarily to realize I am wrong about who I am and I should eventually like to become you." or 2. "I represent a homogenous alien planet that revels in the chaos of refusing to become you." or 3. The best living amorphousness The politics of the show always seem to evoke deeply rooted but questionably addressed insecurities about colonization and our inability to communicate well with nature and intuition. It's neat that Discovery features humans that can commune with nature though it apparently took like 1500 years or something for us to finally gain the skills.
The commentary joke on ship alignment in space is a very good point that no one seems to talk about. It makes no sense for starships to have a ventral and dorsal side. A realistic starship would not be bilateral, but rather, radial, like a jellyfish, with the propulsion underneath the vessel.
Sense we don't have a concept of artificial gravity technology, it would be unknown the best ship layout. If it's just a vessel, then wide lateral ships make sense for crew and storage, if we have to simulate gravity with thrust, then yes it's a bad design. And space does have an up, the galaxy is shaped like a wheel, rotating about it's center. Meeting a ship traveling a perpendicular z-axis course would be strange.
@@EmperorRahem Star Trek ships use a technology called gravity plating which creates graviton particles to emulate the force; and these plates could be aligned in any way (though we never see such creativity in Star Trek). Also, science fiction has been using the radial ship layout for decades; it's the classical "flying saucer" design, which is a better design than Star Trek's bilateral "Hot-Rod" design. That said, a bilateral layout actually makes logical sense for shuttlecrafts. All that said, I do like the point you made about the galaxy being a disk, but then, every ship would have to adhere to a strict universal law that dictates that every ship be aligned on the disk (and that's after deciding which way is "up"). Still, it would explain Star Trek's space being analogous to an ocean with a floor and surface.
@@zerojee1 Very true, although humans still require a flat surface to walk around on, so the cube may be the best shape (or a cylinder even). Ultimately, the sphere is the most efficient shape in physics, and a large enough sphere could allow humans to walk on the inside-surface, like an inverted planetoid. Even better, if future humans modified their physiology to be free-floating, anti-gravity cyborgs with a body shape more akin to octopus, then they would not require a surface at all and can move through a sphere in all directions. Still, the advantage of a radial "flying saucer" shape is that it could land on planets; but then, so could a cube or cylinder (and a flying saucer is nothing more than a squat cylinder).
This strengthens my thesis according to which there is a ABKverse where everyone looks like him in a way or another, due to the experiments of an ancient pantheon of lovercraftian deities.
I love how they always repeat the meaning of every scientific theorem whenever someone brings it up. Scientist: "Our ship is under attack! We need to use *Newton's first law of motion* to get out of this mess!" Commander: " *Newton's first law of motion?* You mean the fact that object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force!?" Scientist "Yes." I get that it is educational but it just sounds so funny.
Back in the day they at least tried explaining what certain technology is and does. Today they even dont bother. Thats why old series are really educational.
@@jayerjavec I think they still do on certain shows like Star Trek. The Expanse is also pretty good for hard sci-fi stuff, even if some of it is a bit unbelievable.
The best part is that they were usually just name-dropping real terms in the middle of 100%-plot-driven technobabble, but that didn't stop people from writing whole books called _The SCIENCE of SPACESHIP SHOW_
ENT one-upped TNG: "Evolution has destined this race for extinction, captain; there's nothing we can do about it." XD ENT turned evolution into a malevolent god.
@@Zaarin1 That’s What WarHammer 40k somewhat done, their mighty leader was all about technology and was above religion but then it turned basically into a religion.
@@Predator20357 That's what happens in real life We are past the age of religion. Mark my word no new religion will ever arise without being left as a laugh stock (like scientology, literally sci fi writter's creation) We now instead dogmatically follow ideologies. The world revolves around God? No! It revolves aorund capital! Or we should never betray the revolution, it freed the working class. To think otherwise will get you erased from the records. Deviancy is not permitted. And the biggest example nazism, which sought to erase the "old order" and bringht forth a new order of the over-man. Basically the grabbed Nietzsche's work and fucking turned it into a horror story. SS officials were known to have had weddings not overseen by a church but by the SS itself, under new nazi rites. Of course this was something reserved for the SS at the time and the population was majority Christian, but the future the nazis dreamed of was of the like
You also needed the alien race of the week caught in a centuries-old conflict between two factions but one guy with some weird situation can resolve it and in resolving it, our crew member who pals with him learns what it’s like to be different.
@@darrenrobinson9041 Just once I want to see someone sue the federation for insider trading or something because they are using psychics to read peoples minds and feelings
Damnit. The worst thing about these clips is that every single one of them leaves me wanting for a whole 40-minutes, 20-episodes season, to say the very least. This is addiction at its finest. Please beam me to a parallel universe where this happens.
When your heart tells you that the right thing to do would be to save a sentient species from the collapse of their planet's atmosphere and entire biosphere, but the prime directive insists letting them suffocate to death is part of their natural development... "I know what I must do, but I've decided not to do it because I might get in trouble."
@@samjudge1240 Hey at least they are not the Imperium of man or the worst human galactic government the Interim Coalition of Governance from Xeelee Sequence.
@@longwlenguyen4214 To my perspective, Imperium of man and the Federation are the same, simply between aggressive self-destruction and passive citizens to bureaucracy. Bouth systems and sci fi universes I would not want to be in.
@@samjudge1240 You haven't read Xeelee Sequence have you? The Interim Coalition of Governance will made them both look like paradise by comparison, seriously the Coalition will make the Space Marines and all of 40k factions shit themselves in fear.
Federation: "What should be the name of this new Destroyer?" Alien Federation member: "Oh, on my planet lived a great warrior-poet, whose name was-" Federation: "Nevermind, we found another river in South America to name it after. Gonna keep that in mind though."
This! A 1000 times this!! Drives me nuts!! The Federation is clearly just a human empire that has tricked and conned it's way in to control of all the other races
I'm fascinated with the canon where every new class of battlewagon is called "Enterprise". It's more or less true for recent past and present, but that they keep that naval tradition going is kind of wacky.
@@goldengryphon Isn't the reason there's so many Enterprises because the older ships, especially Kirk's one, were really famous, so they wanted to keep the name going? That was my understanding anyway.
@@olivercuenca4109 Look back at the USA's history, too. Yes, they kept the name going because, historically, it's the name given to every first major "battlewagon" as far as ships go. "The Big E" is an aging nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that is manned with a small town's worth of sailors. (Last I heard, she was in for repairs and refit, but my data is old.) The first functional space shuttle was also named Enterprise. And so on. Naming the first/original starship Enterprise, was a nod to naval tradition. Gene Roddenberry was no fool.
The "no up and down in space" thing is something my wife and I constantly joke about while watching the popular space show. They encounter some force field or "wall" in space, for instance, and are, for some reason, never able to go OVER or UNDER it. Does it span the entirety of space?!
@@VegetoStevieD My favorite part was when the blue cat flew into space and gave the audience a wink before saying "IT'S A TRAP!" Man I should rewatch it sometime.
"Shut up, I hate you" - it takes a keen intellect to discern how to make such a simple line this funny within the context of parody. Also, I need more Vimto.
-My people will not leave this planet under any circumstances, even though it is going to be destroyed. -But that planet is going to be destroyed. ... -Then we will leave.
@@cavemann_ mayhaps quoting the video in the comments may be an invitation to further discussion of that particular joke, rather than self-congratulatory smugness.
I never thought I'd have so much praise for an actor's use of head movements to punctuate their lines, but here we are. You have a magnificent head Alasdair.
I hate to be the guy who comes in two years late and gets all technical, but ACTUALLY the reason ships are always upright in “Star Trek” is because they orient themselves with space gravity. That’s why they use ships to fly around in space. Because cars would fall.
haha i also love how they always seem to have a day-night cycle and we only ever meet the «daytime bridge crew» for they are the «more important ones» because «things happen at daytime» and I'm like… there is no day or night in space haha
I always thought it was weird about ships meeting in space. They always miraculously find each other on the same upright angle, even though there's no up in space. I'm glad you pointed that out.
It also pointed out that the federation believe themselves to be "always right". Sort of a dig at modern western civilization mentality of "We are doing it therefore it is the right thing to do".
I just chalk it up to "If they have the tech to go faster than light and replicate whatever whenever, they can have AI that reorients ships appropriately"
What always bugged me is how the Enterprise (and other ships) never oriented themselves to the planet they were orbiting. If the ship has a "bottom" (which it should for atmospheric entry), that side should face towards the planet, not orbit sideways.
"our entire species is defined by a single character trait, usually involving greed, connection to nature, physical prowess or a weakness that allows the white captain to save us. Please keep this sacred treasure to commemorate that time you took a day trip here."
Tbf, I don't think they really do the sacred treasure thing outside of the flute iirc, which was way longer than a day trip for Picard. Also, I would say Sisko erasure, but I don't think he really got any plots like this, so the white captain thing isn't technically inaccurate, I guess? Although I don't think Picard ever did that, that was more stuff like that one episode where Worf and his brother save a civilization without breaking the Prime Directive using the holodeck. Kirk, however, yeah, you've got a point. Idk, maybe I'm reading too heavily into the joke.
10/10 as someone who has seen this series more than a few times over, your assessment was entirely, entirely accurate. This is the first video i've seen of yours. Your Stewart impression is so good that I have no idea if you're British or not. Fantastic!
The full title of the Federation is the United Federation of Vegetarian Space Socialists Who Are Always Right but they shortened it for marketing reasons.
Wait if beaming takes ship angle into account, that must mean that any time you beam to the southern hemisphere of a planet, you're going to be upside-down.
Our ship was named after a tragically murdered Scandinavian artist from the 21st century. Welcome onboard the USS Gunnar Gunnarsonson.
^underrated comment.
Oh to be the ship's gunner on the Gunnar Gunnarsonson
You son of a gun…
@@Nielsblog Not bad either.
@@IanWatson Gunnery Sergeant Gunnar Gunnarson, Gunner, USS Gunnar Gunnarssonson
Beaming someone to a ship and having them fall sideways is perhaps the greatest sci fi joke I've ever seen making me all the more surprised that I haven't seen it before
One of my pet peeves in scifi is when they beam someone who was sitting and when they materialize they're just magically standing.
@@twokool4skool129 I feel like the ability to alter the posture of the body during transport would not be a difficult problem for people with transporter technology.
@@seigeengine do they actually kill original people and than create a clone during the "beaming"? why don't they use it as a weapon to beam parts of other ships away? can they clone obejcts and humans with beaming tech? strange they never explored it on the show
@@CoolGobyFish I'm not a Trekkie but...
I believe, in canon, it's meant to not invoke them dying.
Practically, I think it's clear that's what it is. It's basically replicator technology at a distance.
There are episodes where transporters are used to replicate people who have already died, and where they unintentionally duplicate people in the process of transporting them, so I think it's fairly safe to say these are all possibilities of the technology.
@@twokool4skool129 and a bunch of other issue, like transporting to a ship in orbit. speed? angle? ah, just ignore it.
You even included the part of "being extremely dismissive of Worf's security concerns despite him being Chief Security Officer". Bravo!
Worf being their Tank, he has to get his ass beat down repeatedly to prove how bad the new bad guys are
They are also super dismissive of Tasha Yar's concerns before she dies pretty much any time she raises one so go ahead and say they're treating females like second-class citizens like I'm sure you will.
Where over here in reality what's actually happening is, the starship captains we've been exposed to through the lens of Trek always take the curious approach, even if warned by their security officer that there could be danger.
Or when a peaceful resolution is finally agreed upon between the federation ship and whomever they're in conflict with, sometimes they have to lower the shields to do whatever it is will resolve the dispute between the two groups, the security officer always advises against this, and the captain always gives them a look or some short one liner, they say aye sir and move on.
Just like many first officers have said, it is the security officers responsibility and duty to inform the captain and any other superior officers of potential risk presented by varying situations. However, just like it's the responsibility of the second officer to give the captain other optional strategies, it is always ultimately the captains decision.
It has nothing to do with Worf being a Klingon, or Tasha being a woman.
It is literally just the command structure of the ship being adhered to.
Take your 0 trek knowledge and your wildly politicized opinions back to your echo chamber please.
Yes Exactly! its on point.
@@matthewmeehan7817 uh?
@@tipoconmuchotiempolibre2968 no argument of substance so I just get an "Uh?"
We're going to break the Prime Directive again this week, but "just this once."
The Prime Directive isn't law, its literally more like a guideline than an actual rule
@@dorkmax7073 You live up to your name.
@@dorkmax7073 Sure, but its their core ethical code. It'd be like a vegetarian that eats pork every other day. It's not illegal but is still incredibly silly.
We're going to break it in a limited and specific way.
@@zanite8650 They break it in every "limited and specific way" imaginable. It's like breaking all the windows on a building one window per day and calling it "limited".
- Also, I am French.
- Huh, but you have a perfect British accent!
- Yes, I have learnt it from the Scandinavian crime shows!
Underrated comment (and what a person)
Gunnar Gunnarsson taught him well.
But... French can't speak English, it's illegal...
@@aleisterlavey9716 hold ouf newfound cultural exposure to american shows in their original language
-Yes. I'm totally French. Cant you tell with the way I drink tea all the time and am obsessed with Shakespeare.
I love the quick "guy in the view screen turns his head and nods to imply that there's more people in the room to save money on extras". Classic Star Trek
@@mezzbI never managed to get past the first half of the first episode. It's THAT bad
How dare you. Gene Roddenberry must be turning in his grave. Not because he's upset or anything, it's just that the inertial dampners are offline.
Nah, he's too busy creating a gravitational pull from the force of the spinning caused by the treatment of Trek since 2009.
That was brilliant. Bravo.
Maybe they buried him at a weird angle.
Also not enough miniskirts
The next generation is beyond miniskirts
Eh, that hostile alien didn't even have random rubber parts glued to his forehead to. You need to have wacky things glued to your forehead to be alien, everybody knows that!
Yeah! Or at least an upside down wig
Recessed hair line counts.
0 aliens wore rubber. I think they used silicon, because it fits better with faces and isn't as stiff as rubber.
Or a line near the nose or something similar. The more appearances the species has, the more elaborate their makeup.
*laughs in cardassian*
"We represent the vegetarian space socialists who are always right." That line flowed like butter.
"You guys are the worst" "We know"
Points for self-awareness.
HA HA
I always thought that Star Trek TNG should've been called Pompous Liberals in Space but that line summed it up much better.
You had 669 likes (n-nice), and I hated to screw it up, but I had to like your comment anyway. Sorry.
They're not always right... in practice, they're only right like 95% of the time. And when they're wrong, they usually either change their policy or step down and let someone else drive. This willingness to change when presented with evidence, however, is often framed as a weakness.
Also every Single Alien race is always in it‘s entirety governed by one single ruler or party working in a colorful room
Everything on a given alien planet is within walking distance, so this form of government is more practical than you might think.
@@ericssmith2014 😂😂😂
except for all the times it isn't, like the half-black face aliens that had two factions or the klingons that had 13 clans
@@jesusmora9379
Damn, I almost forgot about the "this metaphor is so obvious blind people can see it" race.
I love Star Trek and it spreads good messages, but its metaphors are delivered via sledgehammer.
"You see those dumb people hating each other because of their skin?" - the Episode.
@@hafor2846 which came out in a time when there was "no blacks allowed" signs in half the stores of the US. star trek was martin luther king's favorite show...
You forgot to reverse the polarity of something. They’re always reversing the polarity of something. Warp field. Transporter beam. Something.
In a pinch the deflector dish can....anything.
They can't, there isn't enough omicron something something
I think there was some polarity reversing going on with hair follicles.
REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW
Even the polarity of the hull in Enterprise before they had shields. Don’t forget the dilation of neutrino wakes and omicron particles..
Is this the episode where they meet the monoethnic/monocultural beings on the planet with only one habitat? That's the best one!
That one habitat per planet SciFi trope always urks me.
I see what you did here =) 90% of episodes are like that)
Is that the one where the alien female falls in love with the ship's captain?
This kinda makes sense tho, like there are probably differences but only being in contact with people for a few days/months isn't really going to give you a complete understanding of their society. To put it another way, if aliens came to earth they could see that most humans believe in the supernatural but it'd be hard to quickly come to the conclusion that they are different, let alone mutually exclusive. I mean, there isn't even a guarantee that aliens could differentiate the types of orange between humans so they might all look the same.
Lol. You would get the occasional civil war on a planet. But I see what you did there.
Your impression of Sir Theatrically Trained Actor is on point!
Absolutely
Yeah lol it is really good
I wonder if this is brought to the attention to the Sir person.
'WHATS WRONG?! I'm a serious shakesperean actor and I'm talking to the ambassador of the fucking worm people!'
I thought his name was Sir Old Baldy.
"Captain, I'm feeling a vague emotion from over there that may or may not have anything to do with the plot"
“That alien ship is firing on the Enterprise! Red alert!”
“Captain, I sense anger from the enemy ship”
@@alpacawithouthat987 My favourite one is where Riker is angrily yelling at everyone, and then she calmly says "Will, I sense you're upset...."
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 that, to be fair, was part of a simulation that Riker was trapped in. But yeah, she was pretty useless overall.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 "Deanna, BACK OFF."
God I f****** hate Troi, I hate her so much I make sure to read the description of every episode on Netflix before watching it just to make sure it's not a Troi episode
Well done on getting your wig under that bald cap.
On second thought, the difficulty of using a bald cap for ABK might be considerably greater than the difficulty of creating a CGI bald head.
Hey, funny seeing you here
You have the best bald cap Lindy. Barely detectable. I like your creativity with wearing a wig around the edges. All very believable. I bet your real hair is gorgeous.
How did he do this? He has more hair than I've ever seen on a man.
This inconsistency was resolved in Episode 463 of 'Popular Space Show™: Deep Space Show' with the invention of the Universal Upness Generator.
this is a very good comment ty
Pssh talking we don't already know, ships without a universal upness generator might as well be a walking toaster they're so out of date. Hell my friend has a new actual toaster with its own universal upness generator, its very annoying when he mistakes it for the TV remote and the concept of toast suddenly becomes the nonlinear manifold direction of up.
But i think everyone has heard enough about quantum smart toasters for one space lifetime amirite fellas
Deep Space Show was the best show by far.
@@Ben-rz9cf At least he isn't stuck with a Red Dwarf " Talky Toaster, Those things NEVER SHUT THE HELL UP about toast and other toaster related food stuffs!
0:38 actual conversation between me and my USB flash drive every time I use it
it's always the wrong way the first time. and the second time. and you wonder why it didn't work the first time. has to be some kind of dimensional trick where we can't see a third side.
@@kevlarkittens it’s a fairy door USB.
@@kevlarkittens this has got to be the most transcendent take on USBs I've ever heard.
nailed it ^^ but here is a tip.. the right way to put a usb in the slot is to look at its two holes.. u can see through? ok. that´s the right side. you see a "lil plastic wall"? flip the stick! :)
My wife just bought a new phone, and the manufacturers were really ahead of the curve. They just fitted the USB port upside down at the factory.
I totally remember this episode. You left out the shot of Counselor Troi saying, "Captain, I'm sensing hostility" after the alien captain screams "I'm going to eviscerate all of you with a Denobulan wooden spoon!!!" That was a great example of Betazoid insight.
Troi was always so hilariously useless like the bad aliens are like “captain this is none of your business!” And she’s like “captain, i have a vague feeling they’re hiding something.”
@@EmilyCaissie The problem was that Troi was fucking OP, so they just had to nerf her by making her useless
@@drisraptor2992 that’s fair and I know she got some dignity back in the later seasons but it’s a bummer to have one of the two series-long (save crusher in season two) main female characters be so chronically useless, but I still like her hahaha
Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
"Thanks to our amazing technological advancements, we have made a glorious utopia."
"I'm working on a new technology."
"It's evil. Man was not meant to meddle in such things. Destroy it."
I've never seen a single episode where that happens
@@speedos I'm hardly an encyclopedia, nor have I even watched everything, but I can remember a few on top of my head. Some genetically engineered people who turned out to spread a plague. A phase-through cloaking device. Anything that might get Voyager home faster. Basically, if an episode setup mentions new technology or science experiment, chances are the episode will focus on how it horribly backfires.
Conversely, can you mention any episodes where a new technology is introduced, and it turns out to be a good idea that is then implemented?
@@bificommander7472 I don't remember any episodes revolving around new technologies, but the show clearly loves the idea of technological advancement helping humanity. Almost every single episode, the crew saves themselves by their extreme technological know-how and ability to scientifically identify space anomalies. Data is a completely artificial lifeform of unprecedented technology, yet he saves the day several times and many episodes focus on him. In "The Offspring", Data builds a daughter, and it's treated as a wonder, not a danger. In "The Tin Man", they discover an artificial, yet living ship, and they also treat it with respect. In "The Inner Light", Picard goes through an incredible experience because of a technology that has never been seen on the show before.
@@speedos A whole bunch of TOS episodes.
Which begs the question. What happened to all the information that they got from V'ger?
No one is gonna talk about how funny the passive agressive throwaway line "its gonna prove that your ship is wonky" is?
I'm surprised the ship mockery didn't piss of the enthically-iffy ambassador. Well, enough to shut off the communication, as ethnically-iffy Popular Space Show ambassadors seem to have very low tolerance for almost anything, and becoming super angry over trivial things.
I always try to say it at the same time as the character does. Such a great line.
@@hectorblacknight6485 Ambassador Kosh enters the room.
you just did
No, nobody.
I've rewatched this like a dozen times and I still can't figure out how you made such a realistic bald head
Me neither. I mean, that's a lot of hair to hide under a beige swimming cap.
I'm guessing its tied up at the back then covered in some kind of green fabric so it gets keyed out with the background
@@russ254 I have a love hate relationship with this response
Obviously he wears a wig for every other role.
Simple, he shaved and instantly grew it back the next day
I can’t believe they actually got Patrick Stewart for this
Lol
That little glance off-screen and nod from the alien leader is probably the most accurate part of this whole sketch, and that's saying a lot considering how good this sketch is!
I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Bravo!
"Tea. Earl Grey. Vegan."
"Captain, you can just order it without milk."
"... but how will they know I'm vegan?"
True, they could just think him lactose-intolerant.
@@js66613 "just" how dare you! HOW DARE YOU SAY I AM INTOLERANT ANYTHING! :D
"...but how will they know I'm vegan?"
Ahh, this comment. This comment is just **chef's kiss**
Milk with Earl Grey?
@@lupinthethird5784 Yes, what kind of psychopathic spacefaring monster would serve it _with_ milk??
Vimto. Purple. Cold.
I’m sure a whole episode about the replicator making blue vimto could happen one day.
What is vimto?
@@blitva1 Vimto is a soft drink sold in the United Kingdom. It was first manufactured as a health tonic in cordial form, then decades later as a carbonated drink. It contains the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants (in a 3% concentration), flavoured with herbs and spices.
I googled it all by myself.
Still or sparkling though?
it is only called Vimto if it comes from the Vimto region of France.
"Captain I don't think"
"Shut up I hate you"
Yup, Worf on TNG in a nutshell.
Prune-juice drinking,social justice warrior that he is..
vigrin TNG Worf vs Chad DS9 Worf tho
@@StevesRightJay Was he better in DS9? I gave up on that show after a few episodes. Awful characters, all of them (except maybe O'Brien). Never got to the point where Worf joined.
@@jetuber Which season did you get up to? If you stopped at season 1, that might explain it. It's a little like TNG- the first season is pretty much skippable (except for duet, you HAVE to watch duet, it's great), the second season has peaks and valleys, and then in the third season a major character grows a beard and the show inexplicably improves.
@@jetuber it got way better overall in s4 when worf joined. But I actually thought his arc in TNG was excellent. It keeps going in TNG and he turns out to be even more important to klingon politics, although I didn't like the romance subplot he was in very much. The individual he's with does make sense because they are essentially a klingon warrior too but iirc they didn't emphasize that as much in dialogue. Maybe they were going to try to do more with it if it weren't for that actor leaving the show. There, that should be spoiler free.
The main thing I learned from Popular Space Show is that every alien planet looks like Southern California and they have a maximum of six people living on them.
"vegetarian space socialists who are always right"
That line alone, man. That line alone.
Line that man alone
The Federation is not vegetarian. And they're communists, not socialists, since they have abolished money.
@@theuncalledfor which has nothing to do with either
@@theuncalledfor being post scarcity doesn't make your society socialist nor communist.. as well as becoming socialist/communist doesn't turn your society post scarcity .. typically the absolute opposite
People today tend to forget that last part
@@TheyCalledMeT
There is no such thing as post-scarcity. Resources will always be limited, unless you're at a tech level that is so high, you can create energy from nothing, and change the geometry and amount of space at your disposal.
There is still a limited amount of land on Earth in Trek. You can't just create a copy of the Picard family's vineyard out of nothing, for example. There is still value to property. There are still things some people want, that they cannot have, such as old baseball cards like in DS9.
The Federation is communist. You can deny it if you want to be delusional, but that doesn't make them not communist.
As a Star Trek fan, it is painful to me how accurate this is.
Agree.
As someone who has a bit of a love-hate-relationship with Star Trek, it is painful to me how _inaccurate_ this is. It gets the criticism _wrong._
@@theuncalledfor In what way exactly?
@@xxTheFlyingPigxx its got the pompous righteousness down, and obviously the set / props. But aside from that it doesn't really feel specific star trek to me
@@canadian__ninja Doesn't explain why the criticism is wrong. It feels very Star Trek to me. You can immediately tell he's meant to be Picard, the aliens feel very much like TNG aliens (he completely summed up the plot of half of TNG's episodes with that exploding planet gag), and the jab at the ship's 'weird angle' was a nice reminder of how so many sci-fi shows forget that space is not flat.
"We will not leave this planet under any circumstances, even though it is going to be destroyed."
"But that planet... is going to be destroyed."
"Then we will leave."
Welp... that de-escalated quickly
In a full episode, there would be forty minutes of filler dialogue with the other characters .
Troy: Captain, I sense that the people of this planet do not wish to leave.
Worf: I find their behavior to be dishonorable!
Data: I find their behavior to be irrational.
Crusher: Their behavior apparently isn't based on sickness, but I'll run some more tests.
Riker: Something needs to be done! Captain, I recommend that we do something!
Geordi: If we can technobabble the technobabble, maybe we can technobabble. But it is a long shot.
Whoopi: Sometimes people don't want to leave because they just don't want to leave.
Wesley: Sir, I don't understand. Could you, the Captain of the most important starship in Star Fleet, take time from saving an entire species to unnecessarily explain things to me, the most nonessential person in the universe?
@@joeschembrie9450 I like how Guinan was just Whoopi
Also Wesley had some of the more interesting episodes when he was in focus, albeit turning him into space Jesus sent him out with a whimper
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Yes, the same thing happened with Kez on Voyager, when they give your character godlike powers it really just means they're writing you off the show.
@@joeschembrie9450 good observation, albeit it's disappointingly lazy writing, at least with Wesley who could get off the ship anytime
@@joeschembrie9450 hilarious.
Worf didn't cast aspersions on anybody's honour, so this sketch is only about 99% accurate.
Hahahaha
@Ciaran Wilkinson The captain is used to Wharf's BS and stopped him in time.
@Ciaran Wilkinson And he didn't get thrown across the bridge. that's like dereliction of duty.
He didn't flare his nostrils and widen his eyes in silent protest at having to refrain from insta-aggression either.
@@IrishCarney Hard to see it before the HD edition.
Whole alien race represented by one actor on the view screen. Director tells them to look to the side as if they're confering with someone else.
You've watched so much Next Gen.
Andreas Katsulas (Tomalok) actually felt uncomfortable when he had to portray Tomalok without a viewscreen in "Future Imperfect." I find that rather fascinating because he was so masterful, right down to his full body language and posture, as G'Kar on Babylon 5. He was so wasted on Star Trek, both as Tomalok and Drennik.
It was just as bad if not worse in TOS. That bit is almost a perfect redux of a bit from The Enterprise Incident.
Stating an absolutist position, being contradicted and then immediately capitulating on it is a bewilderingly common trope in the show. Love that little detail.
My headcanon is there's a treaty established "galactic north" that all ships orient themselves to. Just makes ship to ship interaction, travel, and trade a lot easier if everyone is facing the same direction
Nah, ships orient themselves relative to the planet's rotation; there are two option, with or against, but with is the most sensible if you need to take a shuttle down.
If most of the stars in a galaxy are rotating in the same direction about its center, you get a convenient 'up' vector.
My headcanon is that since the shape of the milky way is relatively "flat", that it was decided that the default orientation of the ships would be in one of two directions so that everyone's flying through the disk (that is the galaxy) and not away from it.
@@miriamrosemary9110 The milky way is flat in the same sense that Olympus Mons is flat
@@FreshlyBakedLePain So it's flat then. Because Olympus Mons is flat in the same way that an ordinary piece of photocopy paper is flat, only flatter.
Olympus Mons' height is only about 0.3 % of Mars' average radius. Standard 80 gsm paper is around 90 - 100 microns thick but measuring at different positions on a single piece one can easily see it can vary by 10 or more microns above or below its own average. Even a typical softwood fibre thickness of about 0.2 microns adds appreciable texture of more than 2 % where one fibre rides over another especially on the rear.
Your videos are on point.
DeChangeman ja moin was machst du denn hier? XD
@@thedripkaiser574 Seinen Kanal promoten. Innerhalb von 30min einen Comment bei einem vermutlich erfolgreichen Video dalassen pusht den eigenen Kanal im Suchalgorythmus. Deshalb haben so viele Videos nichtsagende "lol xD xD"-Kommentare von RUclipsrn drunter.
The level of snark here is getting better than Adult Swim lately!
Pardon me. I'm confused.
Get him vimto then
This is obviously season 6 when the crew got cynical.
Were this season 1, it would've been the alien demanding that the other ship orient itself to his point of view and the captain would've obliged because diplomacy meant doing every single thing the aliens of the week wanted no matter how petty or obnoxious.
From season 3 onwards was the patronising & woke narratives underpinning all storylines.
@@Pwwh0711 star trek was "woke" starting long before you were born pal. Why watch a show if you hate it.
@@TheEvilCheesecake The other day I saw the crew of DS9 become terrorists after obrien was assaulted by a Jem Haddar and Bashir was told to accept the dominions diverse way of life rather than punish said assault.
That couldn't be made today.
@@scutumfidelis1436 Do you remember which episode bc I can't recall and DS9 is my favorite Trek I've watched thus far
@@Saad-A16 "The Search (Part 2)" (s. 3, ep. 2).
I just realized the small off-screen nod of Alien-guy before making a decision that was so common in TNG.
That's an excellent bald cap.
It...it IS a cap, right?
I like to think he recorded the other character first, then shaved his head off just for the bit. I eagerly await his next bald video.
It's edited. If you look carefully, you can see that the edges are one colored. Also if you look at 1:01 at 0.25 speed you can see it glitching out a bit.
@@ball0000 Thank you for noticing that
@@Wormswoods Same, God.
@@Wormswoods why? what's wrong with shaving one's head
“Our highly dramatic, semi-tragic love cannot be…. For I am a human and the captain of my ship. And you….. are a pair of sentient pink cylinders, capable of telepathic communication and until our fateful meeting, used to be incapable of understanding love.”
"The Prime Directive is very clear and unambiguous - we must not interfere in the affairs of this planet."
"But people on that planet will die!"
"I guess we've got to save them."
The worst one was when Picard was fine with abiding with the Prime Directive when a planet was going to be destroyed, but then when he heard a little girl being sad over the comms he immediately changed his mind and massively violated the Prime Directive.
Brannigans law
@@Rorymchair That's brilliant 😂
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 wasnt that data
@@JackPorter Data found the girl, but he had to convince Picard to save the planet.
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Hey its you! You rock
Fuckin Dan Bull with 43 likes? You and Stupendium carry an industry, my man. Good work
Hello dad
@@ayeforgot8645 glad to see more rep for Stupendium. I feel Dan has already gone mainstream enough that he doesn't really need the extra boost at this point. XD
@@darksunrise957 to be honest, that's part of the reason I said anything, Stupendium definitely deserves so much credit, even for his voicework with Harry101UK
Welcome to our massive colony, Captain. I know it looks like a small crafted set on a movie set, but trust that behind me is a sprawling cityscape.
You even manage the weird American accent that’s specific to Star Trek. Definitively American... but only heard on Star Trek.
And on American news shows
@@thecianinator Which are populated with much more alien-looking beings than _Star Trek_ has ever managed...
That's called the show being made 60 years ago
mid atlantic accent, which is totally made up. Just like the 'standard' british accent on the news.
@@LTPottenger Yes, but the transatlantic accent is not "definitively American", because it was used by both British and American actors. Like Cary Grant is famous for using this accent but he was British. It's a purposefully ambiguous accent designed to make movies that they could sell in both markets I think.
"We represent the vegetarian space socialists, who are always right." You got me there Gunnar Gunnarson.
I thought that was Gunnar Gunnarsonsson.
@The Anonymous Sir Backspace He has made a mistake cause probably they were not close (sorry for my English, it's fluent).
This thread just broke my brain. I need to get more coffee. Thank you, all 4 of you.
Technically if Gunnar Gunnarson had a son named Gunnar, the son would be Gunnar Gunnarson also. Before family names were fixed, naming conventions followed this scheme, if you can indulge a hypothetical genealogy:
Karl Fredrikson
Gustav Karlsson
Sven Gustafsson
Erik Svenson
Sven Svenson
Hålger Svenson
Håkan Hålgerson
and so on
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Did you miss the part where this was a joke? Because, seriously, my dude. That's an r/whoooosh. (I hope I got the right number of o's.)
You missed the robot man who learned the same three lessons about being more human for the thousandth time.
That's a decent representation of "machine learning".
@@NormanTheDormantDoormat Fuck you leave Data alone Data is perfect go away
That lieutenant Worf action figure is straight from my childhood and made me happy scream in acknowledgement. Spot on, and funny as usual.
Shouldn't you have been playing with a Barbie in the grocery store &/or kitchen playsets?
Also *discovers aliens do something against our values* "hopefully with time they will discover the error of their ways and that we were right all along"
That's what happens at the end of every episode since they have to wrap up the story in a two minute scene.
Hmm, this might be a metaphor for something... but no, Popular Space Show™ wouldn't have any of those.
Tru
@Minwon Jang I do like how DS9 is different in how Sisko deals with more complex, difficult situations with no easy choices while on TNG Picard tends to just give a little speech then the Enterprise leaves, roll credits. ENT and BSG have some conundrums that are interesting too. Partially because of how episodic TNG is.
Yes! Aliens on Trek be mostly like three types:
1. "I represent a homogenous alien planet based upon the exaggeration of a single trait of Western culture who exists primarily to realize I am wrong about who I am and I should eventually like to become you."
or
2. "I represent a homogenous alien planet that revels in the chaos of refusing to become you."
or
3. The best living amorphousness
The politics of the show always seem to evoke deeply rooted but questionably addressed insecurities about colonization and our inability to communicate well with nature and intuition. It's neat that Discovery features humans that can commune with nature though it apparently took like 1500 years or something for us to finally gain the skills.
The commentary joke on ship alignment in space is a very good point that no one seems to talk about.
It makes no sense for starships to have a ventral and dorsal side.
A realistic starship would not be bilateral, but rather, radial, like a jellyfish, with the propulsion underneath the vessel.
Sense we don't have a concept of artificial gravity technology, it would be unknown the best ship layout. If it's just a vessel, then wide lateral ships make sense for crew and storage, if we have to simulate gravity with thrust, then yes it's a bad design.
And space does have an up, the galaxy is shaped like a wheel, rotating about it's center. Meeting a ship traveling a perpendicular z-axis course would be strange.
@@EmperorRahem
Star Trek ships use a technology called gravity plating which creates graviton particles to emulate the force; and these plates could be aligned in any way (though we never see such creativity in Star Trek).
Also, science fiction has been using the radial ship layout for decades; it's the classical "flying saucer" design, which is a better design than Star Trek's bilateral "Hot-Rod" design.
That said, a bilateral layout actually makes logical sense for shuttlecrafts.
All that said, I do like the point you made about the galaxy being a disk, but then, every ship would have to adhere to a strict universal law that dictates that every ship be aligned on the disk (and that's after deciding which way is "up").
Still, it would explain Star Trek's space being analogous to an ocean with a floor and surface.
actually a cube or sphere with omnidirectional thrust seems most logical
@@zerojee1
Very true, although humans still require a flat surface to walk around on, so the cube may be the best shape (or a cylinder even).
Ultimately, the sphere is the most efficient shape in physics, and a large enough sphere could allow humans to walk on the inside-surface, like an inverted planetoid.
Even better, if future humans modified their physiology to be free-floating, anti-gravity cyborgs with a body shape more akin to octopus, then they would not require a surface at all and can move through a sphere in all directions.
Still, the advantage of a radial "flying saucer" shape is that it could land on planets; but then, so could a cube or cylinder (and a flying saucer is nothing more than a squat cylinder).
@@EmperorRahem but galaxy isn't that thin
This strengthens my thesis according to which there is a ABKverse where everyone looks like him in a way or another, due to the experiments of an ancient pantheon of lovercraftian deities.
or he is like Horatio from Endless Space.
he needs to contact ryan george
@@mhorrighan It would have been great for this episode.
@@vulkanofnocturne I like this
I love how they always repeat the meaning of every scientific theorem whenever someone brings it up.
Scientist: "Our ship is under attack! We need to use *Newton's first law of motion* to get out of this mess!"
Commander: " *Newton's first law of motion?* You mean the fact that object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force!?"
Scientist "Yes."
I get that it is educational but it just sounds so funny.
Back in the day they at least tried explaining what certain technology is and does. Today they even dont bother. Thats why old series are really educational.
@@jayerjavec I think they still do on certain shows like Star Trek. The Expanse is also pretty good for hard sci-fi stuff, even if some of it is a bit unbelievable.
not really a space movie franchise, but these days when something scientifically impossible happens in the MCU: QUANTUM... something....
This was basically Data and Geordie's entire dynamic.
The best part is that they were usually just name-dropping real terms in the middle of 100%-plot-driven technobabble, but that didn't stop people from writing whole books called _The SCIENCE of SPACESHIP SHOW_
"Our society evolved beyond religion, but the Prime Directive says we gotta let this sentient species die bc it's their destiny"
ENT one-upped TNG: "Evolution has destined this race for extinction, captain; there's nothing we can do about it." XD ENT turned evolution into a malevolent god.
@@Zaarin1 That’s What WarHammer 40k somewhat done, their mighty leader was all about technology and was above religion but then it turned basically into a religion.
@@arcahmwinters70 Yah, anything can be used for fanaticism and dogmatism.
@@arcahmwinters70 Well said. Round of applause.
@@Predator20357 That's what happens in real life
We are past the age of religion. Mark my word no new religion will ever arise without being left as a laugh stock (like scientology, literally sci fi writter's creation)
We now instead dogmatically follow ideologies.
The world revolves around God? No! It revolves aorund capital!
Or we should never betray the revolution, it freed the working class. To think otherwise will get you erased from the records. Deviancy is not permitted.
And the biggest example nazism, which sought to erase the "old order" and bringht forth a new order of the over-man. Basically the grabbed Nietzsche's work and fucking turned it into a horror story. SS officials were known to have had weddings not overseen by a church but by the SS itself, under new nazi rites. Of course this was something reserved for the SS at the time and the population was majority Christian, but the future the nazis dreamed of was of the like
You also needed the alien race of the week caught in a centuries-old conflict between two factions but one guy with some weird situation can resolve it and in resolving it, our crew member who pals with him learns what it’s like to be different.
Troi notes that he's being truthful but he's definitely hiding something.
@@darrenrobinson9041 Just once I want to see someone sue the federation for insider trading or something because they are using psychics to read peoples minds and feelings
Spoiler: It's either Data or La Forge--or Troi, but only if it's an awful romance. :P
“I represent an alien race not necessarily based upon a specific human ethnicity but it still feels kinda iffy.”😂😂😂😂 YAS
Shut.
Klingons do 52%
Shut.
TOS was really bad about that. TNG was better, but there are some episodes best forgotten
Then you have the Ferengi which is a fictional alien race that appears to have been designed by a drunk Mel Gibson.
Damnit. The worst thing about these clips is that every single one of them leaves me wanting for a whole 40-minutes, 20-episodes season, to say the very least. This is addiction at its finest. Please beam me to a parallel universe where this happens.
Being a vegetarian space socialist who is always right and is also the worst is goals
When you are the worst, everyone else in the universe is better than you. such a nice place to live
Me.
Infinite food, though. And it can be anything you want.I could put up with quite a bit for that, to be honest.
When your heart tells you that the right thing to do would be to save a sentient species from the collapse of their planet's atmosphere and entire biosphere, but the prime directive insists letting them suffocate to death is part of their natural development...
"I know what I must do, but I've decided not to do it because I might get in trouble."
Is balls.
"Shut up, I hate you" would have worked hilariously with a Wesley Crusher figure 🤣
Or modern-day George crybaby Takei
@@billharris1847 wdym?
"You guys are the worst."
"We know."
I love his calm acceptance of everyone else's frustration with them.
Where do you get that? No idea how you people come up with these absurd viewpoints.
pardon me?@@john.premose
"we represent the Vegetarian space socialist who are always right" that is brilliant analogy to the federation, spot on there.
and they know they are the worst, or so they claim :)
@@magnum3.14 Personally I see it as a understandable progression of its fundamentals, of the federation of Starfleet.
@@samjudge1240 Hey at least they are not the Imperium of man or the worst human galactic government the Interim Coalition of Governance from Xeelee Sequence.
@@longwlenguyen4214 To my perspective, Imperium of man and the Federation are the same, simply between aggressive self-destruction and passive citizens to bureaucracy. Bouth systems and sci fi universes I would not want to be in.
@@samjudge1240 You haven't read Xeelee Sequence have you? The Interim Coalition of Governance will made them both look like paradise by comparison, seriously the Coalition will make the Space Marines and all of 40k factions shit themselves in fear.
Federation: "What should be the name of this new Destroyer?"
Alien Federation member: "Oh, on my planet lived a great warrior-poet, whose name was-"
Federation: "Nevermind, we found another river in South America to name it after. Gonna keep that in mind though."
This! A 1000 times this!! Drives me nuts!!
The Federation is clearly just a human empire that has tricked and conned it's way in to control of all the other races
I'm fascinated with the canon where every new class of battlewagon is called "Enterprise". It's more or less true for recent past and present, but that they keep that naval tradition going is kind of wacky.
@@goldengryphon Isn't the reason there's so many Enterprises because the older ships, especially Kirk's one, were really famous, so they wanted to keep the name going? That was my understanding anyway.
@@olivercuenca4109 Look back at the USA's history, too. Yes, they kept the name going because, historically, it's the name given to every first major "battlewagon" as far as ships go. "The Big E" is an aging nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that is manned with a small town's worth of sailors. (Last I heard, she was in for repairs and refit, but my data is old.) The first functional space shuttle was also named Enterprise. And so on.
Naming the first/original starship Enterprise, was a nod to naval tradition. Gene Roddenberry was no fool.
@@goldengryphon I was in Norfolk when Enterprise was decommissioned lol. Like a decade ago.
The "no up and down in space" thing is something my wife and I constantly joke about while watching the popular space show. They encounter some force field or "wall" in space, for instance, and are, for some reason, never able to go OVER or UNDER it. Does it span the entirety of space?!
If Q made it, yes it does.
Obviously the bigger ship's orientation takes priority and the smaller ship should conform.
Obviously the bigger ship has more energy to use on manoeuvring and it should conform
@@LuckGod84 Obviously it would require vastly more power and time to reoriente the bigger ship than the smaller ship
@@Ripley92 they have bigger reactors they can afford it
It's actually which ship is more nimble and has better weapons systems and efficient power plant. Big ship is just big target.
That's why the vegetarian space socialists always use starships with the largest form factor possible.
That "weird angle" analogy is so funnily accurate on how conflict starts in popular space show.
That Patrick Stewart voice is f*cking A class.
It's Patrick's brother, Stuart.
I find it soothing to know that in the far future us gingers will be allowed to command star ships
IF you shave
@@indubio1 But if I shave I lose most of my ginger powers...
LOL
Ginger Lives Matter
I think you missed the part where this is fiction.
This is so spot-on, I'm surprised Paramount hasn't sued you for copyright infringement.
If only Obi One Kenobi never stole the Ring from Voldemort, none of this would have happened :'(
"Use the force Harry" -Gandalf
@@VegetoStevieD Such an iconic quote, my favorite scene from the Matrix.
@@KroVey My favorite part of the Matrix is when they tame those flying reptiles by plugging the back of their head into them.
@@VegetoStevieD My favorite part was when the blue cat flew into space and gave the audience a wink before saying "IT'S A TRAP!" Man I should rewatch it sometime.
Dude! Warn us when you are doing spoilers! NOT COOL! I was just going to watch that too.
"Vegetarian Space Socialists who are always right"
"You guys are the worst."
"We know."
That could've been the whole skit.
Worf appears
"Shut up, I hate you"
So accurate. I'm glad Worf received much more love from the crew in DS9
DS9? The show where Worf got mixed up with a fundamentalist fanatical group while on vacation with Dax?
@@cityofbhat7722 OoOofff, I was hoping none of you'd remember
@@cityofbhat7722 and gets beaten up by the ferengi a stunning zero times - unlike tng.
He literally received much more love.
This just made me miss TNG Picard. He nailed the captain so perfectly it made me want to watch TNG again.
"Shut up, I hate you" - it takes a keen intellect to discern how to make such a simple line this funny within the context of parody. Also, I need more Vimto.
-My people will not leave this planet under any circumstances, even though it is going to be destroyed.
-But that planet is going to be destroyed.
...
-Then we will leave.
Oh wow we watched the same video cool
@@cavemann_
Someone pissed on your cornflakes?
can we just instaban everyone who just quotes the video in the comments? maybe IP ban them so they cant make new accounts too
@@N13TheGeneral I, too, love comments that don't bring anything to the discussion or fun as well!
@@cavemann_ mayhaps quoting the video in the comments may be an invitation to further discussion of that particular joke, rather than self-congratulatory smugness.
All jokes aside, that's a great Picard impression.
The greatest line tragically never uttered by Captain Jean-Luc Picard on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation': "Someone get me a Vimto."
„You guys are the worst!“
„We know.“
So good
THE WORF ACTION FIGURE
I never thought I'd have so much praise for an actor's use of head movements to punctuate their lines, but here we are. You have a magnificent head Alasdair.
How dare you call me an actor?!
@@ABeckettKing I'm sorry, you're an artist of indescribable cultural importance.
And you have a magnificent head.
@@deandarvin553 That's better!
I hate to be the guy who comes in two years late and gets all technical, but ACTUALLY the reason ships are always upright in “Star Trek” is because they orient themselves with space gravity. That’s why they use ships to fly around in space. Because cars would fall.
The part where he beams over sideways was pure gold.
That Picard knockoff actually did a REALLY good job at imitating him. Props.
1:00 he looks so surprised, yet vindicated
haha i also love how they always seem to have a day-night cycle and we only ever meet the «daytime bridge crew» for they are the «more important ones» because «things happen at daytime» and I'm like… there is no day or night in space haha
I always thought it was weird about ships meeting in space. They always miraculously find each other on the same upright angle, even though there's no up in space. I'm glad you pointed that out.
It also pointed out that the federation believe themselves to be "always right". Sort of a dig at modern western civilization mentality of "We are doing it therefore it is the right thing to do".
@@Mosamania Not really? it's just a dig at the federation in the show itself, I doubt he's being the meta with his commentary lol
@@Mosamania Isn't "we're doing it therefore it's the right thing to do" literally everyone's mentality around the world?
I just chalk it up to "If they have the tech to go faster than light and replicate whatever whenever, they can have AI that reorients ships appropriately"
What always bugged me is how the Enterprise (and other ships) never oriented themselves to the planet they were orbiting. If the ship has a "bottom" (which it should for atmospheric entry), that side should face towards the planet, not orbit sideways.
Like the space shuttle?
I wouldn't be surprised that you really cut your hair for a minute long sketch. You are that committed.
"We represent the Vegetarian space socialists who are always right."
"You guys are the worst."
"We know."
Perfect dialogue, lol.
Star Trek in a nutshell
This was high key the best part lmfao.
"our entire species is defined by a single character trait, usually involving greed, connection to nature, physical prowess or a weakness that allows the white captain to save us. Please keep this sacred treasure to commemorate that time you took a day trip here."
Tbf, I don't think they really do the sacred treasure thing outside of the flute iirc, which was way longer than a day trip for Picard. Also, I would say Sisko erasure, but I don't think he really got any plots like this, so the white captain thing isn't technically inaccurate, I guess? Although I don't think Picard ever did that, that was more stuff like that one episode where Worf and his brother save a civilization without breaking the Prime Directive using the holodeck. Kirk, however, yeah, you've got a point. Idk, maybe I'm reading too heavily into the joke.
I have been a subscriber since the Scandinavian Noir sketch and gotta say this channel is a hidden gem.
I am a HUUGE “popular space show “ fan. 🖖And that was probably the most funny, and on-point spoof I’ve ever seen. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Well if Adele & Rebel Wilson can do it, you can lose that weight too
I am also a fan of "Popular Space Show". We can enjoy media while still acknowledging its flaws.
10/10 as someone who has seen this series more than a few times over, your assessment was entirely, entirely accurate. This is the first video i've seen of yours. Your Stewart impression is so good that I have no idea if you're British or not. Fantastic!
I'm glad youtube randomly recommended your channel to me. I adore your brand of humour!
I can't believe you shaved your head and then let it fully grow again just for 1 skit. Unreal dedication.
Super hard work.
The aliens are a perfectly good angle, they're normal to the planet, in orbit. Why is the Enterprise at a weird angle?
Because they represent the vegetarian space socialists who are always right. 🤣
The full title of the Federation is the United Federation of Vegetarian Space Socialists Who Are Always Right but they shortened it for marketing reasons.
Ship's wonky? Have an Earl Grey
Wait if beaming takes ship angle into account, that must mean that any time you beam to the southern hemisphere of a planet, you're going to be upside-down.
Our dilithium crystals are drained of power. Do you have any jumper cables?
We clearly have a violation of the Galactic "Up" Treaty going on here!
"We represent the vegetarian space socialists who are always right." 5-6 episodes into Next Generation and it is very accurate.
youtube recommends this to me every day and I watch it every day
Great short but am I the only one distracted by how good the ships look? They look really good😁
0:43 Finally someone admits there is no "UP" in space. And on planet Earth, there is only "Outward." There is no "UP"
Babylon 5 got it right; starships don't just sit in one orientation in B5.