Is This the Best Season of TNG?
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
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Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the most popular sci-fi shows of all time. Its third season is considered by many to be a step up in the quality of the writing, but does season 4 continue that trend?
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02:35 Season Recap
29:16 Outro 
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_Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!_
will you be reviewing the series.... all the way down?
@@beepboop204 why would he stop?
@@ksiaa814 i just gotta ask if it goes ALL the way
@@beepboop204 no I get ya. I mean at this point it seems sort of mandatory in my eyes
@@ksiaa814 100% all the way jokes are mandatory
Season 3 to season 6 is a legendary run.
you'd be missing so many good episodes. Measure of a Man for one. Season 7 has The Pegasus.
Plenty of others.
@@commiecomrade2644 this is true. But S3 to S6 has little to no misses. S2 is great and yet terrible at the same time. S7 was mediocre minus a few episodes like all good things and the Pegasus as you mentioned.
I'm doing a full watch though of TNG for the first time, watched voyager multiple times, shocked at how many I haven't actually seen before, had just heard of them. Kinda got bogged down in season 5. Need to get motivated to finish.
Season 7 is the best season
@Bigfootwalker ...at least according to the Emmy voters who chose to nominate it for Best Dramatic Series - the only time a syndicated show has managed to snag such nomination.
{I personally think it is a splendid season.}
I love how Worf always had the most extreme/aggressive option when giving his advice on what to do in any given situation. The episode where they all got amnesia and Worf just assumed he was the captain because of his decorative sash thing was priceless.
His delivery is so strong. “You forget… _I_ am decorated as well.”
I also love how Picard’s advice is still better for their situation, even though he’s giving it more deferentially than he usually does.
@@kaitlyn__L I also love how he is essentially an anime tsundere archetype who tries to act tough but is secretly a big ol softy, and keeps adopting kids into his family.
My father loved that moment. He often siad 'Look, it´s the decorated Worf' when Worf showed up in a scene.
The episode is Conundrum where they all have amnesia.
I don’t mind Worf always giving the tactics option. He’s security chief. It’s his job to give the tactical option.
Put yourself in that position, with amnesia, and you could easily make the same mistake. It's as logical a surmise as anyone else made in that scene.
"Family" is one of my favorite episodes of the series. Picard's breakdown after he fights his brother always gets me emotional
Same here...a much needed breather after The Best Of Both Worlds.
I recall watching Family on its debut...my mom is in the room & she asked, "I thought this show was about outer space".
:-)
I love that it explores traumatic fallout and long-held resentment, really pulls it all out and lets it breathe.
Don't get emotional. Did you learn nothing from Spock?
IM NOT PICARD !!! I’m getting that on a shirt
I love the holodeck episodes where they put on costumes and play Robin Hood and shit. It's like the crew got together for a D&D night
"Captain I protest. I am NOT a merry man!" Greatest Worf line of all time, and he has a lot of great lines.
using Worf for the occasional comic relief line was a genius writing move@@canalesworks1247
13:04 - Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner actually did their own dancing in the episode, except for the overhead shots where Spiner requested a double, as he did not feel confident enough to pull it off. McFadden did the choreography, as she was a well-known Hollywood choreographer long before TNG. According to episode director Robert Wiemer, McFadden and Spiner also developed the lines in the scene, which were later accepted by the scriptwriters.
@@subraxas I thought McFadden was-GORGEOUS-back then !!! LOL.
This recaps / analysis videos gives me that *dopamine rush* of watching a season of TNG without the full time investment. _Thank You!_
"She went where..?" scene with the alert sound made my Friday morning.
Also this feels like freebasing TNG, like watching a entire season and getting the good rush of it all in short form is so satisfying, especially in your voice.
"Do the spots go all the way down?" is a great pickup line
Season 4 had a lot of solid episodes that had long-term story repercussions 🥰
"Night Terrors" scared the sh*t outta me when I first saw it at 9 or 10 years old. In "Galaxy's Child" Geordi's behavior was definitely inappropriate and unprofessional but I don't think it crossed the line into "predatory".
Fun fact: cosmic strings are actually totally unrelated to string theory, and IIRC predate it!
It’s a hypothetical one-dimensional super-dense object, made entirely out of nucleons kinda like a neutron star. It’d be subatomic in width but light years long.
I totally thought that episode meant string theory had been confirmed in TNG too until somewhat recently. So it’s 100% understandable. I don’t much like string theory either myself.
well, they're not totally unrelated, but one doesn't imply the other. the traditional hypothesis for how they might form involved topological defects that formed during the symmetry breaking phase of the very early universe, and then string theory posits a wholly different mechanism where fundamental strings become stretched to cosmological scales by inflation. but yes, these ideas were developed independently.
Definitely not related to cosmic filaments, that's a different Phenomenon
@@antimatterhorn right, I was specifically responding to Tyler saying the ship running into one means that string theory had been confirmed in the setting
@@onlyhereonceinlife I honestly can’t remember if they said filament or string in the actual episode, that’s just how Tyler said it in the video
In defense of Geordi he only asked the computer to make the simulated Leah Brahms more personable. My head canon has always been that the computer, which we know from the season seven episode Emergence is bordering on sentience, is, at some pre-conscious level, in love with Geordi and programed Leah Brahms accordingly.
I hang this all on simulated Leah Brahms' line about touching the engine. That was the Enterprise ACTUALLY talking to Geordi.
That would make for a very very interesting premise
Yeah, I like that headcannon. I‘ll adopt it.
Those are really good points.
“Devil’s Due” always sat weird with me as the tone seemed off but I couldn’t put my finger on why.
Years later I learned it was originally written as a TOS episode with Kirk instead of Picard being the focus of the horny con-artist. The story makes SO much more sense knowing that.
With Data taking the role of the Enterprise computer.
Yes, it was too much fun.
@@Redshirt434 huh, really? And here I’d expected that was originally just gonna be Xon.
Haha, I've loved this episode since I first saw it as a kid. I suspect Ardra appealed to a then-unrevealed part of my nature 😂
I can't fathom why Star Trek _still_ hasn't done a musical episode when the sheer volume of courtroom episodes proves the show is not above doing theme eps.
@@nealsterling8151 So true.That's what I liked about that episode.
To be fair to the holodeck, Jordy had to break numerous restriction protocols to create the program. Personality and phycological files were directly called out as a problem to get initially.
*Geordi
lol when I was a kid I thought Tasha's sister was played by Linda Hamilton for the longest time till I re-watched the movie and was like "...wait a min". I ran around my school for like 3 years telling my friends that she was in an episode of Star Trek. -_-
The person who played Tasha's sister is Beth Toussaint. She is apparently not a relation to Linda Hamilton or her late twin sister. In the right timeline, they could have played on that lookalike status: have three of the same character show up and interact with each other; two sisters with one taller than the other. Toussaint is six years younger than Hamilton.
The actress who played Tasha's sister was-GORGEOUS !!! LOL.And had a very nice body.
@@powerbadpowerbad "My eyes are up here.... No, further up."
@@powerbadpowerbad lol yes I agree 100% and she still looks good Today.
@@Malkiore1 She does ??? GOOD,you have to take care of your-TEMPLE-it's the only one you have.
“Half a Life” is by far the best Luwaxanna episode of the series (not that that is a huge accomplishment). Majel Barret really gave the character life, too. Just another great, relatively small detail, that helps make this show so great.
Another great video Tyler my fave line in The Wounded is where O'Brien says "I don't hate you Cardassian, I hate what you made me". Anyway hope you are well Tyler.
Hope you're doing well too Saxon!
@@OrangeRiver I'm doing good Tyler one of my fave TNG 2 parter episodes was done between seasons 3 and 4 it was the finale of season 3 and episode 1 of season 4 Best Of Both Worlds parts 1&2
I loved the song from that episode that Miles sings with Captain Maxwell. I still sing it sometimes when I'm thinking about oxtails and cabbage.
@@jhonbus That's an old Irish traditional folk song so old the person who wrote the song to this day remains unknown. But I have managed to find out it's called The Minstrel Boy and was written by Irish poet and songwriter Thomas Moore and believed to be in remembrance of his friends who died in the Irish rebellion of 1798 back during the time of the Fenians here in Ireland one of the most famous of which was a man named Wolfe Tone
Geordi was doing nothing more than advanced roleplay and was clearly infatuated with Leah. You're right about this kind of stuff remaining private, people's often harmless yet highly embarrassing fantasies being weaponized for moral superiority.
But poor Geordi was almost like a red shirt light. The second you hear intruder alert I shout " oh no.. they're going to knock out geordi!" I can't count the times he gets knocked unconscious
how they broke his passcode for this program leahbrahms69, is beyond me.
okay, but, so, here's the thing about booby trap and leah brahms. _it's the ship._ the enterprise is an incredibly advanced piece of technology that i'm sure has a whole lot of whatever kind of stuff makes chatGPT work, right?
she's not a manifestation of leah brahms. she's a manifestation of _the ship._ the implication is that _the ship_ likes geordi.
Futurama did it later literally dating a ship.
That’s what makes it so romantic. 😊
The only bad thing about this video is that it ended.
First Contact and The Nth Degree are my absolute favorites from this season
in Star Trek Online, the tutorial character Captain Taggart calls the player "number one" and says he served under a captain who called his first officer that "early in his career." in the episode The Host, Picard is contacted by an "Ensign Taggart", and while it's not directly confirmed, it's heavily implied that this is the same Taggart
SImply, Thank you for making this series.
Not gonna lie my favorite bit was the twilight zone skit. Omg dude it made me laugh. Helped me get through washing the dishes.
Also gotta say this channel has become my background while sleeping or cleaning the house. I'll run through my own mental pictures of what he's talking about while it's playing. But I've had the best sleep lately
I really appreciate the warning to avoid the merch. Wouldn’t want to get trapped in the Twilight Zone just for a tshirt! ;)
The Data/Jenna episode features the actress who plays the wife of the main alien protagonist of Alien Nation, another series that deserves more exposure.
25:37 This wouldn't have stopped RIker.
Imagine Riker's space STDs.
Co-star Nick Tate in the Final Mission episode is none other than Eagle spacecraft Alan Carter from Space 1999.
Comes through even without the cigarette and reveal. Well done.
I cried when O’Brien and captain maxwell were singing
They never actually confirmed that Duras killed K'Mpec. We just assume it was Duras because we know he's a sneaky bastard.
K’mpec is underrated as Klingon characters go, imo. Probably because we don’t see as much of him as Gowron. But he’s clearly very shrewd, albeit a bit lacking in ambition by the time we see him.
@@kaitlyn__L Well where was there for him to go? He was already leader of the council. Besides at the end he was too busy dying of that poison. I agree that he's an interesting character.
It was done with Duras' orders, but I'm pretty sure someone else actually did the deed. Duras was pretty cowardly.
@@canalesworks1247 of course the poison thing would’ve had to have not been written, once that had been said his fate was sealed. He’s an intelligent politician, and adept enough to live to be pretty old by Klingon standards. I would’ve liked to have seen his ruthless side a bit more.
@@kaitlyn__L The idea though of a fat Klingon. That means he didn't really keep up as a warrior. He would have been a guile based politician all along.
LET'S GO I MADE THE THUMBNAIL! Mogh would be VERY honored!
Season 4 is probably my favorite TNG season. Family, and The Wounded are great . Also dude, my new Mass Effect style Orange River mug showed up this week. It's is a nice accompaniment to the OR Trek mug I bought last year. I'm firmly in The Twilight Zone!
I must say I am impressed at the rate at which you grown and developed as a writer and
a performer over the last couple years I've followed you. I can't wait to see what you produce next. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
I can't believe it took until Season 4 to see the Jefferies tube which would later become ubiquitous in VOY!
In The Loss:
Everyone: "But.. aren't you half human?"
Deanna: "How DARE you bring that up!!"
I love "Troi the bitch" episodes. She's fire in "Man of the People." If they had really wanted her to be sexy that should have had her wear regulation uniforms while on duty and then switch to that white number she had on when she was off duty. Getting to see Marina in videos at comic con etc it's obvious that the writing failed the actress way too often. She's quite the firecracker.
I've always remembered since I was a small child Data saying "Perhaps it is YOU!" and my brother and I would always exaggerate it in many different things as inside jokes when we were growing up. "YOU!"
Aaaaaaw!
never realized the family theme of season 4. thank you!!!!
my fav question to ask people "what is the true nature of reality" is based on that episode in the pocket universe. :D
By now it’s become your own spin on it, as Beverly’s question to the computer says “the universe” :D (this isn’t a nerd nitpick, I just love the way memory works. It’s well-known that synonyms are spatially stored in neighbouring neurons!)
@@kaitlyn__L "based on" :D
Great job as usual! I love ‘The Loss’ as well…so many good lines.
Love these videos, I can't wait to see your breakdown of season 5!
Ambassador K'Ehleyr made 12 year old me realize I had a thing for Klingon women.
You have good taste
Well, as a hetero woman I have to say… She WAS amazing!
Haha. That episode with Leah Brahms is excellent.
Rod Sterling would be proud.
Very concise. Definitely flowed well. Ty and I can't wait for season 5
Don't you think we're missing a main point about personal holo-programs? Don't you think they'd be password protected by the creator? Barkley was extremely smart, and so was Jordi. I just can't see them leaving their holo-programs open for anyone to charge in.
12:20 elevates this work to the level of a masterpiece. Agreed on string theory.
Just as I was rewatching this season, great timing!
Thanks!
Another great video! I just finished TNG about a month ago after the last ep Paramount + threw me into voyager, this was very wonderful and almost a little nostalgic now that I am getting adjusted to the new crew of voyager.
Thank you for your work and please keep doing your best.
22:20 - LMAO!! That bit nearly killed me as I coughed, choked, spluttered and spat my cup of tea!!🤣😝🤮
It had better have been Earl Grey tea! 😏
I love the Twilight Zone ads you do for your merch. I may have to get a t-shirt or some such lol. Thank you for another excellent episode as always!
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Im glad you went all the way with this episode
“Night Terrors” and “Identity Crisis” are both stabs at horror. One works very well with the subtle horror cues from a stripped down script, while the other has its moments overshadowed by Guinan phaser rifles.
Though “The Nth Degree” is a great one, if only to show the cliquey, shallow, and insecure nature of the Enterprise senior staff.
I mean seriously, there’s a way to handle “Phenomenon” Barclay without the Eric Clapton song, and still not squash his human rights as you protect the security of the ship.
Glad someone else appreciates what "The Loss" was trying to do
"Clues" has the hottest two-episode-helm-Ensign in the whole fleet in Ensign McKnight with her Thomas Jefferson hairdo
They really made Geordi a creep in Galaxies Child.
These videos are always worth watching. especally TNG! :)
Barkley is the best accidental character is Trek history. Props to Dwight Shultz for making me feel like I know the guy. Incredible arc too, all the way up through “Voyager”.
Great Serling imitation. Well done!
Forgot to say, but those “Family” based episodes hit the best
5:36 If this boy was adopted by the Talerians then my great uncle was also adopted by the Vietcong during the Vietnam war. They literally murdered his parents and kidnapped him during a raid on a human outpost. He's a POW, and the fact that his grandmother is an admiral should mean that this incident starts another war with them. _He doesn't even consult her before he hands her grandson back off to the barbarians that brainwashed him and ruined her and many others' families..._
I love the twilight zone and star trek musical combo. Great job.
Awesome video! I'd forgotten just how many absolute bangers there are in this season.
Identity Crisis, the first Brannon Braga episode. And it's one of the quintessential Braga episodes at that, touching on tropes he would revisit again. *Cough cough Threshold*
I look forward very much to your reviews of TNG Seasons 5-7 (and possibly the films ?)
Man, Guinan was so good.
Always awkward when your crush meets your robot crush.
so good!
(and i'll never forget the first time I saw "Identity Crisis")
Lol :28 looks like the beginning of a bad 80s workout video with the music
That twilight zone merch ad 😂
Levar Burton recently said in an interview that he hated the creepy way Geordi LeForge was written in Galaxy's Child and it's antecedent episode. He said Le Forge's inability to have healthy romantic relationships in TNG is why he demanded his character be written to have a family with kids in Picard season 3.
I did notice after recently watching that his issues with women seem very "out of character" when compared to his personality in all other areas. But it was kind of funny how bad he was with women. Sadly some people really do have such difficulties.
I think he was written to be kinda annoying in that show as well, he was kinda shitty to one of his daughters for not picking the same career as him, wtf
I disagree with your statement on "The Loss" being a good example of disability being portrayed thoughtfully. Diana's reaction was like that of a spoiled brat, or " Aristocratic" as Riker said. She acted selfishly as if she alone understand what it's like to suffer. As a Counselor I would have expected her to behave with others in a much more mature and dignified way. I don't mean to detract from the pain she was going through, but I think the writers REALLY dropped the ball on that one. I've always held the highest respect for her character. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦
I think that's valid--I almost included a sentence about Riker's "aristocratic" line because I think it's VERY key to understanding the episode. Honestly what impressed me most about this episode is not Deanna's behavior per se--she did act like a spoiled brat--but that it cleared the low bar of the first two seasons so un-seriously exploring certain aspects of the human condition IMO. That is to say, her yelling at Beverly and Will showed she was very very flawed :0
@subraxas Yep, Deanna's definitely a nepotism hire 😂
@@subraxas what I find interesting is she SAYS she can’t do her job, and there’s one scene with the recurring patient which seems to confirm that… but then we see Guinan’s talk with her, and the patient comes back to say her insights were right after all. As in she is perfectly capable of doing it, and it’s more just she lost some of her confidence. But the first half of that is a lot more memorable than the second half, so we all remember “I can’t do it without my empathy!”
That episode is Marmite-divisive among disabled Trekkies. I’ve read many essays falling on both sides, and they all have good points.
The execution fumbles in a bunch of ways, but also captures some truths about adjusting to a new diagnosis. I fall on finding it mostly cliched and flawed, but I can understand how some disabled people see themselves in the narrative.
I don’t know what’s more divisive, _The Loss_ or _Melora._ Though at least _Melora_ was written by a disabled person, while AFAICT _The Loss_ wasn’t. Not that that helps improve the consistency of response, as we’re far from a monolith.
Dude! Lookin sharp in a suit!! Awesome Sponsor Break! (lol)
Everyone: Worf! You killed Duras!!!😮 Now Gowron is head of the council!!
Worf: don’t worry. I’ll kill him later.
I would love to see you start doing videos on Stargate. I have always felt that it was very Star trek ds9 like just way lower tech.
I've been thinking about Stargate! I haven't seen any of it but I have some vague thoughts on the universe. Maybe one day!
27:48 Does Data actually keep Spot in a bag!? I don’t think he’d react like that if Spot didn’t have a bag…
I love that interpretation lol.
Over-earnest possible answer: some cats do prefer empty bags over empty boxes 🤔
@@kaitlyn__L I had a cat who would get inside plastic bags and start licking the plastic if I left one on the floor.
"Sir, I wasn't sure about the name on the file. What does, 'Geordi's Spank Bank' mean?"
Honestly the way the hologram talks about the engines in relation to herself id be more concerned that Geordi is rubbing up agains the warp core. Whipping out his conduit and venting his plasma all over the dilithium crystals.
“Remember Me” isn’t just the best Dr. Crusher episode (I also like “Suspicions”), it’s an all time great episode overall.
Been waiting for DAYS for this!
I feel such a nostalgia for TNG as I've been seeing it my whole life. I'm in my 30s so ..
The way call of duty mountain dew and Doritos go together,
For me it's: TNG, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Metallica!
That's just the way my nostalgia triggers 😎
Like pizza and beer 🍺
Galaxys child is great! Poor Geordi cant get a break when it comes to women. He treated the real thing as if she was the hologram, confusing the two in his mind, as such his behavor is on point. He strugles to seperate the two in his mind, knowing one is made up, the other is not, but wanting to know the real one more - he tured off the fake, knowing it was fake, knowing that yeah he fell in partly love, but in love with a made up being, he wanted the real one - because he respected her work, and perhaps part of him still felt that connection, however illogical. The dang thing seemed real. The real one was taken. OR so she said... maybe she wasnt or maybe she breaks it off latter? I'd rather have seen that she wasnt taken and open to getting to know each other for real, but first she gets some light hearted `revenge' by programing Geordi in the holodeck getting a pie in the face - only to have the real Geordi get a pie in the face for real - two pies in face for the price of one, plus you could have Data say "3.14...." whatever pi is as Geordi mentions pie latter and the episode faids off as he just lets Data say pi wondering if he will ever stop. Hahahhahahahahaha! oh well. anyway. Good ep in my view and people are a bunch of complaners these days I swear. not that I dont complain about things, I do - but see when I do it, its fine.
i mean xD kinda great anology to todays para social behaviour to content creator xD It holds up well.
Clear your holodeck history if you don't want the rest of the crew scopin' out all ur kinks.
I was waiting for "all the way". Thanks. 👍
Love these recaps. Thanks for the awesome work 🙏🏾
As always, love to see your take on TNG seasons..You do a good job highlighting strengths while being fairly critical with the lows. Also, without doing the cliched snide tone that some RUclipsrs do a little too much! 😅
Haha thanks Sephex!
Remember Me, one of the all time great episodes.
Season 4 onward is some legendary sci-fi TV, well, up until season 7 where it's very clear they ran out of good scripts.
“I am not a merry man!” Will forever be the high water mark of this show.
Literally the first thing that everyone's going to do when holodecks are real is to hook up with someone they have a crush on; seems pretty harmless. I mean, we have no control over who's thinking about us during ... um ... 'me time' 🤷♀️
Sela seemed like an odd character. If the timeline went back the way it was, Yar died from Armus and there would be no daughter.
11:07 I always seen that scene as Mediterranean and a Celt just talkin to each other.
Buddy your ad was as good as the video LOL thank you man do you make my day much better
Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the recaps.
pretty sure Geordi mentioned he was married to her in picard aswell
I love "Nth Degree" SO much!!!!!! Dwight Schulz is fantastic, and he does the illuminated Barclay with such flare!
When I was little, I remember giving up watching TNG after seeing Best of Both Worlds.
But, when I watched it later in life, I recognized I missed the most important and best part of that arc - the episode Family which is literally the first time I felt like Stewart acted in the series and actually made Picard a human being
My friend David and I loved watching all of these 1st airing, man week to week anticipation is a lost edging process in a more innocent perspective lol
Clues is really a great episode.
I have watched seasons 3 and 4 more times than I can remember, it was peak TNG