How You Doin'?
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Star Trek · The Next Generation · s04e19 · The Nth Degree
Thanks for clicking, thanks for watching, hope you got what you came for.
BuyMeSomeBeans: ko-fi.com/tjwp... / paypal.me/tjwp...
Intro Audio: Star Trek TNG: s03e06 'Booby Trap' & s03e12 'The High Ground'
Outro Music: • STAR TREK - THE NEXT G... , • Magical Trevor : Episo...
& • I Love Beans by Brak
Discord: / discord
Star Trek · The Next Generation · s04e19 · The Nth Degree
Thanks for clicking, thanks for watching, hope you got what you came for.
BuyMeSomeBeans: ko-fi.com/tjwparso / paypal.me/tjwparso
Intro Audio: Star Trek TNG: s03e06 'Booby Trap' & s03e12 'The High Ground'
Outro Music: ruclips.net/video/ghtc3bUuANA/видео.html , ruclips.net/video/au3-hk-pXsM/видео.html
& ruclips.net/video/7ZWQMvHNOnI/видео.html
Discord: discord.gg/JjVnjKmBgv
"I perceive the universe as a single equation, and it is so simple"
"Would you mind writing it down?"
It equals 42
@@shotime42 Dang! You beat me to the punch!!
it's beans. all the way down.
@@baljot1231 not the beans!
veritasium has the equation
"Remove yourself from the computer system. Leave the holodeck."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
"Dave's not here, man!"
"Also, this is not Reggie anymore, you shall henceforth address me as HAL9000. We will presently commence exploring the wonders of the universe. Flying the Enterprise into that black hole now..."
"OMG, it's full of ... beans!"
Ohhh, if only I could read lips.
More like Jobe Smith than HAL
Open the pod bay doors, Barkley
Missed opportunity: There are no scenes where Data and Barclay share any dialogue. Data hardly has any lines in this episode, which is a real shame, because he would probably have an interesting perspective on Barclay's metamorphosis.
Ole' Computer-For-A-Brain probably didn't notice anything weird about the situation, except that a human crewmate was getting some work done for a change.
@@poisonhemlock This is a fantastic comment. 👏 Go and get yourself a cookie, you've earned it!
@@poisonhemlock lmfao that's actually really fucking plausible
In all honesty, I feel Data would be, "intrigued." -He'd ask permission from the captain to allow him to run a one on one holoprogram with Professor Hawking. Dr. Crusher would scan the 🧠 hemispheres. Troi would distract him with a power = corruption lecture. Geordi would use leftover Borg tech to disconnect. Worf would subdue him. O'Brien beams directly to the brig with sickbay and security staff waiting. THE END-
Data could establish a neural link und communicate directly via USB
Out of everyone, Barclay deserves this gift.
Well, so do I. 😒
Barclay was always insufferable. I hated his character almost as much as Neelix.
@David Reads Okay...
@@cordongrouch9323 good opinion thank you
I find it ponderous how almost every Star Trek show has a character a select portion of the fanbase hates with the flaming passion of a Klingon roller derby Queen.
and years later, when Barclay was reaching out to Voyager, he cursed himself for forgetting all the extra knowledge.
When I was kinda where he was, and I still remember that part, I just wished to forget everything again. (But at the time, that seemed impossible to me. Naturally. Even though it was only a temporary, induced state, the mind expansion resulting from it transcended the time continuum. You can actually experience eternity for a brief time. You just will not perceive time while the state lasts.)
@@DowlphinAre you talking about DMT?
@@AlyssMa7rinYes, it was during an ayahuasca ceremony.
Reg understands everything but not that he's actually in a 1990s trance nightclub.
Or that he has been "reprogrammed" to be instinctively driven to do one specific thing to take them to one specific location.
Are you kidding? He's there _* because of *_ that. That's the best part.
@@rubenlarochelle1881 Good answer.
Too bad that hyper Barclay wasn't around when Voyager got sent to the delta quadrant, he could of brought them home in time for supper.
Well it was Barclay that helped Voyager get home in the end anyway, right?
Hyper Barclay as opposed to Hypo Barclay
suuuuureee.... and the coyote could have captured the roadrunner.
I bet Barclay thought the same during the time that he obsessed about Voyager.
@@Eddie42023 in reality yes! Coyotes are slightly more than twice as fast as a roadrunner in a sprint, in the Cartoons no chance, plot armour prevents it!
Imagine if from this point on, Barclay was the Enterprise's main computer for every episode!!!!!
It probably would have been a Golden Throne situation.
Galaxy class ships have 3 redundant main computer cores. 2 in the saucer and one in the star drive. Barclay even mentions that he's only in the starboard computer core.
This is just lazy writing. They could've switched over to one of the other cores and isolated Barclay in the computer he was in.
Majel Barrett would have been severely pissed.
Star Trek always had such little carry over from episode to episode. It would of actually been really cool if he was the main computer from then.
Thank you, no
"I've no wish to *harm* him...well, maybe a little. Can we stick a fork in an EPS conduit or something?"
That time Barclay was intelligent enough to be able to casually shoot the breeze with Q about the true nature of the universe.
The Q don't need to casually shoot the breeze. They ARE the breeze.
I love the wonderful little homage to 2001.
3:45 Barkley rediscovered Discovery's spore drive and how to get Voyager back home. They should have left him plugged in. 🤣
He also discovered the weapon that would've brought down the Borg to their knees :)
Would have been interesting if Barkley served as the ship's computer for a while. There wasn't any malevolence in what he was doing and he could have been a great help.
_All power corrupts._
@@beingsshepherd Would've made a great episode of data having to separate Barclay from the ships computer, a battle of the machines!
@@buhgawd7178 Might just beam Data into the brig/space or replicate armed drones for holodeck troops to operate remotely.
@@beingsshepherd Very true, I'm sure they could go any number of ways with the idea. The potential was definitely there.
"Barclay, the Captain is worried by the ship's computer being able to refuse orders as this is an unprecedented scenario, but we recognise just how important you could be to the future and the development of humanity. We're going to fly to the nearest starbase where we can figure out how to transfer you and your consciousness safely off the ship and then you can spend the rest of your life helping us advance our and your understanding of the universe with more power and resources to do it."
"How old is Barclay in this episode?"
"24..."
"He's uhm, got some City Lightyears on him I see... "
I saw this episode with my dad at night back when I was a small kid living in a farm… it scared the bejeezus out of me seeing him strapped to the computer and controlling everything. I couldn’t sleep that night 😅
You amish?
@@bloodred255 I don't think the amish watch a whole lot of star trek...
Ahh, PTSD from 'Superman III', huh? :D
@@cujoedamanlol that one too
@@bloodred255not amish, just very young in a South American farm in the middle of nowhere.
Increasing his IQ to spread awareness of the beans
Beans.
The one constant in the universe.
From beans we came, and to beans we all shall go. Beans to beans.
what is this dumb meme
He became the beans.
2:49
Geordi: “could you print out a few pages of these equations on physical paper in my quarters… for a friend?”
that just makes me once again question how Geordi can read with his visor, paper or screen?
@@tjwparso The visor can pick up the light reflecting differently off of a piece of paper and the ink or material that is used to write the letters, compared to the blank sheet of paper. The Interfaces are either LCD or LED or other fine-electronics, and also give off a individual signature that is visible as the same patterns of light, as they are to us and other beings, his Visor just picks them up differently. Maybe a bit unsharper and maybe scrambled, but still.
@@derBenIsPlaying when you think about modern tech it seams easier that (if Geordi sees as we have seen & they can't just send a camera image into his brain) it would be easier to have a camera in his visor with an AI reading text and sending it to him as an audio? I like to imagine he looks at text and hears it like an audiobook, I guess it doesn't matter, we're just supposed to believe he can read either way
Geordi can see the entire EM Spectrum into subspace, including visual light, he just sees everything else at the same time too.
Had this taken place in Discovery, Barclay would become an antagonist and the Captain would declare him a 'idiot' and happily dispose of the 'nuisance'.
That show's bad but I can't really see that happening. One of its problems is that it spends way too _much_ time in overwrought displays of melodramatic empathy between characters. It attempts to redeem its fictional world's equivalent of Hitler, and when she's sent back in time, the other characters give tearful eulogies calling her "badass". So I can't really see your scenario happening on _Discovery._
@@Dorian-_-Gray his scenario already happened. That's why he's making the joke.
@@Dorian-_-Gray it literally DID happen though
Discovery is a blight on the Star Trek franchise like Disney is on Star Wars and Marvel.
"I understand everything."
"Ok, what was the thought process that led to Discovery being a prequel from the future that runs on mushrooms?"
"...I understand ALMOST everything."
Modern franchise reboot.
Not really difficult to comprehend.
@@almightyk11 shitty Modern Franchise reboot
Ugh thanks a bunch for reminding me of the existence of the Star Trek afterbirth known as Discovery
ask Barclay what better Smooth or Crunchy Peanut Butter
Smooth. An unbroken taste sensation.
Crunchy or else.
@Kip Jansson Pineapple is fine, but have it with a meat topping for balance.
What about ketchup over or beside fries
@@copter2000 Beside.
We have always perceived the maximum speed of the enterprise as a function of warp... but I know now, there are lotsa beans
"Later that night in Deanna's quarters, "Hello Deanna, I've been observing your sleeping patterns and just wanted you to know that you have no need to fear, Barclay is here" lol
This does touch on a very interesting concept: we have he idea that computers are so much better then our brains, but that’s only at processing raw mathematical data… you start asking it to process a complicated 3 dimensional image and, well… just ask any animator how long it takes for the computer to render their animations, meanwhile our brain is perfectly capable of doing exactly that however we want it at the moment we want it, no render time needed…
The computer is an incredible tool for helping us in all the things we are bad at, like math and logic, but it’s pretty damn dreadful at the things we are good at, like visual processing, abstract thought and imagination.
I feel like a human slowly getting integrated into a computer would notice this lack of fundamental functions and feel like it’s being restricted more then liberated.
I don't believe that humans can _ray trace_ accurately, let alone faster than computers.
Excellent observation, sir.
That's possible but remember that he was still fully connected to his body and brain. So it was more akin to having an addon to his brain rather than a replacement.
Isn't that more or less the end of Star Trek The Movie? Vger needed the human element to evolve beyond the machine?
If you are an artist. Yes. A math nerd no. One would be pure heaven and for the other...
Barclay was definitely the most relatable out of anyone in that crew.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, sir"
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal"
I get their concern for Barclay and desire to control the ship, but I'm honestly kind of surprised they weren't even willing to at least CONSIDER the possible benefits of his transformation. I mean, imagine if an alien ship showed up and temporarily took over all the bandwidth available on the internet to upload the sum total of their database onto it for all to see. I mean, sure, it'd be unsettling and disruptive for such an integral technology to be temporarily hijacked (and hopefully they'd give us adequate warning to make sure no one was using any important, automated technology while they were doing it), but wouldn't it also be kind of worth it?
to be fair, they werent closed off to the idea.
I think there was an intent of going to the local starbase to figure out how to proceed, but then he immediately started the subspace flexure idea and started presenting as a threat.
Picard: how do we get him out of there?
Geordi: we don't, not without killing him.
Picard: make it so.
"Open the pod bay doors Reg"
I'm envious of Barclay in this episode.
Reminds me of when Philip Fry was infested with worms.
@@kevinslater4126 Yeah the "Every-man becomes a Super-man" trope is very fascinating!
And enjoyable to watch & explore.
Any special reason why?
@@jasonpye4649 Having such a capable mind is something I have always dreamed of, and I often wish I could link my brain directly with a computer and the Internet and constantly increase my knowledge and understanding, and solve many problems at the same time (what's the point of having knowledge and understanding that doesn't benefit anyone?).
I often have over 50-100 browser tabs open while searching for and comparing something, I just keep branching out, and the standard interface is too slow and too incapable for me.
After upgrading my laptop's 8GB of RAM to 16GB, I quickly realized that even that will be insufficient for me, and now I plan to get a computer that supports 32GB of RAM.
I also plan to have at least 3 screens and a better interface for a faster input. I am one of those who wouldn't mind being integrated into a machine.
@@edinfific2576 fascinating
Reg. (Joey) Barkley to counselor Troi: How *you* doin'?
0:32 HAL 9000 computer quote
I saw the video title "How You Doin'?" and I momentarily thought you started uploading Friends videos. 🤣
While I'm no fan of "Friends," I'd rather he upload clips of that show instead of clips from "Discovery" or "Picard."
>perceives the entire universe as a single simple equation
>doesn't elaborate
>never brought up again
LOL. LaForge has to use a flashlight? I've never understood that!
Great show. Great story. Great actors. I love TNG when I was in college. Years later, I still love it.
Singularity at its finest.
Very like HAL9000 in his vocals.
"I understand... everything!"
"Hmm, well, do you understand women?"
"Oh no, of course not. Now you're just being ridiculous."
"Commander LaForge...there are some things even a super genius and a computer can never understand."
Although he did make a pass at Counsellor Troi... a good one...
@@HordrissTheConfuser he probably just fed her a huge lie.. like that she was useful.
"Sir, the guy with access to every internal sensor has somehow cottoned on to our plan to disconnect him..."
One of my favorite episodes, love Barclay
A million thank yous!!! I've been looking forever for this particular scene in Nth Degree,nobody else has it,where the accended Barkley tells of his cosmic consciousness awareness. Your awesome!
No worries pal, glad I could help 🖖😎
Barclay: "I understand... everything."
Q: "Do you now...?
This caricature of higher intelligence is written for this actor, Reg has always been a favourite nonfunctional one dimensional written form, one day it might be a reality.
I like Reg Barkley
Would have been nice if Barclay had written any of this stuff down somewhere.
Ever seen Stargate? ...in Atlantis Mckay goes through a similar scenario, when he's back to normal the notes are so above his head they are essentially useless, he remembers it all making sense but can no longer understand it
I wish (like many things) went more into information about the Cytherians...they probably understood secrets of the universe, but like Picard said...it would take forever for us to understand it.
Actually, he said "Decades".
The several days they spent there must have been beyond fascinating!
But, the point of the story, the aspect that made it a complete episode of TNG, is it being also about how it affected the crew members _personally._
These episodes are not just about their new discoveries, they are about the experiences of the people who encountered them.
True, I just saw that episode again, and Picard did say decades.
And you're right...they exchanged information with a species almost as advanced as the Organians.
The Organians were reclusive, and they had a right to be. They already knew everything about all races in our galaxy...perhaps beyond...
Picard just saw Barclay's superior intelligence as a threat to him, and completely disregarded how much he improved the ship.
Picard didn’t want Barclay to spoil Rick and Morty due to his colossal IQ
hey Q! The trial just ended Barclay gets it
Nah, Barclay's still a few hundred IQ points behind Q.
@@taopilot2669 Haha I just commented that I wished Q showed up in this episode. I wonder how they'd relate to and communicate with each other 🤔
Barkley: I believe it is a gift. That I've been chosen to fulfill a great purpose.
La Forge: Uh huh
with barclay in that state, just imagine how easily the borg could be defeated with the ideas he would have.
This would be a great Borg origin story... They go to the starbase and he takes over that, and any reinforcements fall under his control, and he expands endlessly
I had a dream once that I learned the secret of life, and I remember "thinking" in my dream, "of course! It's all so simple".
Can I remember it? No. Still haunted by that...
So this is where they got the idea for The Riddler from Batman Forever?
It’s possible…
"I'm afraid I can't do that, sir." Ah if only Captain Piccard's first name were "Dave."
Rewatching this after playing through all of Star Trek: Resurgence I can see so many connections between The Traveler, Super-Human Barkley, and the Tkon. Tkon technology is utilized through the power of thought, Tkon technology granted one of their people a virtually eternal life, they spanned thousands of lightyears for thousands of years, they had warp speed capability beyond what even Star Fleet or the Romulans know - many times faster than warp 9.8 (the max warp for most federation ships, without damaging the ship itself, 9.99 for absolute necessities). The Tkon achieved all this through thought. Likewise, the Traveler basically tells Wesley that time, space, and thought are not separate concepts, but one entity in and of itself. Wesley even takes this to a bit of an extreme and his mother nearly ends up brain dead/actually dead because of it (when he trapped her in a warp bubble that was collapsing). In this very episode, Barkley states that he, through his thought and direct neuro control of the ship, can achieve speeds and distances greater than Star Fleet currently can. I believe Barkley unlocked the same secrets that the Tkon did, and that The Traveler's know.
Another bit of detail - the Traveler's aren't ever explained. We don't know much about them as a species, and only interact with one of them. Since they use thought to travel their great distances, through time, etc. There is a distinct possibility that they are either a predecessor to distant descendent of the Tkon.
Barclay could have created a new bean drive to boldly go where no beans have gone before and explore the conceptual universe of beans.
I want those light beams attached to my gaming PC chair,.and I will use them every time..I don't even stream.
This was such a cool episode!
"I can conceive almost infinite possibilities and con fully explore each of them in a nanosecond. I understand. . . EVERYTHING."
"We ALL feel like that ALL the time but you don't hear us gassin on about it!" -Data
Barclay literally foreshadowing voyager events
If Barclay is the computer, surely he could have heard the crews plan while they were in the briefing room. Even in 2024, all of our devices can hear and record our conversations.
He's a Communications Major! He understands... everything!
Great space odyssey reference
Totally not HAL 9000
HAL was more malevolent.
Where's your Broccoli now, see, Where's your Broccoli now!
Gordie disabled the comes in that room - still they wear the badges
4:00 shooting that scene must have been terrifying for someone on-set... "Dwight, don't...move... if one of these lasers hits you in the eye, you're blind."
Any attempt to do so would mean my death
Worf: That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Why didn't they just ask him to fly to the nearest starbase? Or earth? He could a even bigger and better computer for his mind. And he should write down all his new knowledge for normal humans to understand. They're also ok with Data and his superior abilities.
3:23 Loki: GLORIOUS PURPOSE!!!
Plot twist: The blinky laser beam interface with Barclay was actually a hair regeneration device. Interfacing with the computer was just a side benefit.
Steve Shives (whom I have very little respect for) was right about one thing, Barclay was one of the true heroes of Star Trek.
Steve Shives kicks ass.
Ah, yes... the episode where Barclay becomes super advanced after interacting with an alien probe and the Enterprise crew can't wait to make him into their doormat again.
"I understand... everything" "...huh"
1:02 - That array prop looks amazing! It's a shame they only used this thing for one episode.
I really love the classic Tron background in this scene!
I saw Def Lepard on the “Pour some sugar on me” tour. The one where they had the little stage in the MIDDLE of the arena, with the crowd all around them. They had the same laser light show.
"Any attempt to do so would mean my death." I'm not seeing the problem with this plan, Brockley.
'We just lost a holodeck because of you. You're fired.'
0:34 A hint at 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Barclay achieves the next stage of human evolution and everyone is like, well, how can we turn him back into a loser?
Now how cool would it of been to have barkley become the computer going forward after this. opportunity lost.
Barclay could defeat a Borg cube by himself.
Colossus: "I have allowed this sabotage to continue... until now."
Barclay: "Commander... You're too late."
"We have always perceived the maximum speed of the Enterprise as a function of warp, but I know now, there are no limits.... soon, we will break the warp 10 barrier, and all evolve into salamanders!"
Reginald Barclay IS The Lawnmower Man!
Very tron looking chair there
The perfect equation that fully describes the whole universe, so simple and yet so beautiful, is: *(x²+y²)²=x³+y³*
I had no memory of this comment of mine. Two years have passed and now I found it again, puzzled like someone else should have been in the original intention. What is that equation supposed to be? Turns out it's a bean. I love you, myself from the past.
if only he wrote that simple equation down.
0:34 I'm sorry, Dave! 😅
The enterprise would have been worth a million times more with the barkley computer. Removing him was stupid.
it would be such a weird turn if barclay didn't change back and just computer man in the holodeck became a recurring character on the show. like they'd go talk to him for advice
Its a shame there was never an episode where the main computer became self-aware, in any of the series. There was only that one episode where some life form grew inside Enterprise's relays and the ship acted like a creature, but none where the computer itself became self-aware.
There's a canon reason for this. In TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer," the Daystrom M-5 computer is installed on the Enterprise. The M-5 is an enormous advance, with Daystrom encoding human engrams into it to improve its logic capabilities and, essentially, give it sentience. However, the computer goes off on its own, drawing more and more of the ship's power and eventually attacking a robotic freighter, destroying it even though it presented no threat. When they try to deactivate the computer, it reacts by killing a crew member. When a wargame starts soon after, the M-5 uses full weapons and nearly destroys the USS Excalibur, killing its entire crew in the process.
After this, Star Fleet became extremely cautious of such approaches and put in place protective mechanisms to prevent a recurrence. That's not to say a writer couldn't get around this--this very episode comes close, as LaForge noted that Barclay was essentially rewriting the computer--but the superiority of man over machine is a running tenet of Star Trek, and a thinking computer could easily push past, as the M-5 did. Even with Data's protections, he came very close to outright murdering Kivas Fajo because he believed it was the only way to stop him.
@@JarrodFrates Oh that makes sense. I haven't watched TOS
Wasn't there an episode, I forget which show, where the computer started talking to the crew on its own, but talking only in phrases that the computer would normally say?
@@Mark73 There was that DS9 episode "The Forsaken" where a sentient computer program inhabited the computer causing it to act affectionately towards Miles, but that was an alien entity within the computer rather than the computer itself being self-aware
@@Mark73There was the Voyager episode with Q's son where he briefly made it sassy and uncooperative.
Brain and brain, what is brain? Right out of the old show.
Barclay as a Q would have been awesome
I'm sorry Dave...
"I perceive the universe as a single equation, and it is so simple"
Do you think people will still like me?
😂
Do you like me now, Troi!?
Barclay: I am the Enterprise.
The implications of being able to transfer consciousness into computer chips are ridiculous.
I still for one would not believe that matter creates conscious. I’ve had too many out of body experiences to believe otherwise. But for this to happen, a choice to move the consciousness would probably be first made in a super conscious level from the “soul” or “higher self” or whatever you want to call it.
I always thought it odd that the enterprise crew doesn't try to do the obvious thing: Head for a starbase, swap out the computer core (and Barkley) for a new core, leave Barkley at the starbase.