At first glance/2nd glance, he looked like Frank Gorshin the Batman Riddler! Maybe his calmer matured twin brother. They say there is a 'twin' duplicate... hmmmmm? (Riddler laughing)
Technically he’s Admiral Robert DeSoto today.. Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television guest-credits include The West Wing, Joe Bash, Starman, Hunter, Monk and 24. He also served in the United States Navy, enlisting following graduation from high school, serving for three years while stationed in Hawaii.
@@esbam2002 my comments were being deleted due to being unoffensive but contributed to the history of the actor roles but Google RUclips hates me and deleted comments personally being violations of my 1st Amendment.. I photo snap my comments:: Technically he’s Admiral Robert DeSoto today.. Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television guest-credits include The West Wing, Joe Bash, Starman, Hunter, Monk and 24. He also served in the United States Navy, enlisting following graduation from high school, serving for three years while stationed in Hawaii.
I wish we could have had a few more episodes featuring Captain DeSoto. His warm casual attitude is like a breath of fresh air among all the serious disciplined Star Fleet types. You could see the bridge crew brighten up when he started talking.
NIfty that DeSoto was even name dropped in DS9's 'Treachery, Faith and the Great River' episode, when Nog is telling O'Brien about Al Lorenzo and his penchant for getting selfies behind the desks of famous captains, Nog says 'He's got quite a collection. Captain DeSoto's desk, Captain Picard's.........' Even when the episode aired in 1998 the idea of the 'selfie' was born haha!!
@@bobpage6597I mean, people had analog cameras, and getting a picture of yourself somewhere was often a goal. It was simply not as easy since they were often too heavy to hold with one hand.
I always liked the idea that got thrown in occasionally on TNG and DS9 that DeSoto's USS Hood was also one of Starfleet's most celebrated ships, off having the same caliber of space adventures as the televised ships that we never got to see.
That would be an interesting series to watch or read, to see how a different crew on a ship smaller and less powerful then the Enterprise handles situations.
Emotions and feelings have more depth to them than what a Betazoid can feel, especially if being half Betazoid affects one’s empathic senses (not saying Deanna has or doesn’t have that sort of struggle for being half Human)
"Plus I got a passenger, hard to send via subspace." "Only with that attitude. And not enough beagles to test." - Montgommery Scott, doing Subspace beaming experiments.
His patience was likely worn down to nothing by the thoughts of 1000 people crashing into his mind as well as his own internal doubts and how no one was letting him do what he felt needed to be done or was listening to his suggestions. He could also have been angry at Picard and Riker's doubts in him and how Riker seemingly blamed him exclusively for the disastrous first contact mission he was part of 12 years earlier even though Darson didn't listen to his casual warnings about the aliens they were contacting.
The Excelsior class was the top of the line... over half a century earlier. Galaxy class was the most advanced and powerful Federation starship of its era. But it is a testament to its solid design that the Excelsior remained in service so long. That's not unprecedented, though. The Boeing B52 Stratofortress bomber is still in service with the US Airforce after 70 years, and expected to continue until 2050.
Apparently, DeSoto has since forgiven Riker for not letting him beam down to Altair III. Bygones, I guess. Then again, he doesn't seem like a guy who carries a grudge. It was nice that he gave Riker a good ribbing with the luxury liner remark, though. Classy. 😎👍
Agreed. His personality is so different from Captain Jellicoe, whom Riker would've a few run-ins later. I wish we'd see De Soto and USS Hood again. Perhaps there'll be a 'Short Trek' episode featuring him in the future?
Thanks for posting this scene. This is a lesser example of a subtly that later STTNG seasons largely lost...military familiarity. This scene has sort of a military banter/formality 'feel' to the dialog between the two captains that later seasons, sometimes lacked. This makes sense as Gene Roddenberry was ex-military and ex-cop. Whilst, none of the other Executive Producers had the slightest history of military/police background. So, after Roddenberry got sicker (and eventually died in 1991) his influence and background would depreciate. To the point that Starfleet from 1991 onwards, felt more - to me - like a government, bureaucratic hierarchy rather than a military one (though I realize the military is technically a government bureaucracy). For better or worse. ☮
That's a C/O I wouldn't mind serving under. Seems like one hell of a cool cat! Maybe there IS a little flavor in the Starfleet Command ranks after all?
@@ScottyBugler2005 Nope, the Hood showed up in both Operation Return and the first battle of Chin'toka during the Dominion War and survived them both. Presumably DeSoto was still in command, too.
I heard rumors about a new series idea. Bringing up old characters from the old sereis to tell us in 60 minutes/episode their story after the shows/movies. Maybe he could be in it.
Michael Cavanaugh is a very truly underrated awesome actor he fits the role of Captain Robert DeSoto perfectly He was in the Hunter Pilot 1984 Episode As Captain Cain and was later replaced with Arthur Rosenberg playing that particular character
Troi on a bridge with a dozen people: "So, this guy was my patient and I was his therapist - also, privacy ethics don't exist in the 23rd century, evidently!"
Nope apparently not, just like Riker and Troi making crew evaluations in public at a table in Ten Forward considering which junior officer to promote with the waiter snooping around...
It seems medical privacy isn't a thing in Starfleet. Even in other episodes we see people walk in and out of sick bay while others are having invasive medical procedures done and there aren't even privacy curtains around any of the beds.
@Frederick Fletcher Maybe there are perception filters between the stations we don't know about, so certain individuals don't see each other. I mean, we don't even see them, so they might be that effective.
Although the USS Hood probably couldn't match the Enterprise's top speed, you think they'd at least have kept the ship on course for backup. Would've been useful for dealing with those Romulan ships later.
@@LGranthamsHeir makes sense there got to be thousands of ships in starfleet thousands of captains and each fit into some group of captain. control freak, jovial, neutral etc.
@@joeswanson733 We did see a glimpse of the different personalities of other Starfleet captains in TNG, e.g., Jellicoe (control freak), De Soto (collegial), Garrett (heroic), Captain who leads the refueling starbase and later killed by space terrorists in Picard's reinterpretation of "Die Hard" (jovial), etc.
@@LGranthamsHeir I loved that episode where the enterprise was getting sweeped.... Actually worfs weapons saved the day supposed word keeps a bow in his quarters
"Fastest ship in the Fleet and the best people." I wonder if that assessment changed after they were easily disabled and captured by the Ferengi in old birds of prey?
About that, I like to pretend that episode never happened. The writers of that episode should be stoned for making Starfleet's finest ship and crew look weak, stupid and cowardly.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 Same here. It was a stupid episode and the writers of said episode should be stoned for making the Federation's finest and the Federation as a whole look bad.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 For me the lowest point in the series as a whole was when the Enterprise-D was destroyed just because of one outdated bird of prey. The writers and owners of Star Trek should've had the Duras Sisters ship be a Vor'cha class cruiser, an equal to the Enterprise-D so when the Duras Sisters' ship is destroyed, it's a big win for the Enterprise crew while the Enterprise being lost makes sense.
You know, I would actually like to see an episode of star trek where nothing happens. No disaster, no holodeck malfunctions, it's just the crew going about their day. We never really see what it's like on a normal day for them.
April 5, 2063 25.8K subscribers How are the next video uploads coming? Plus I have a few video request scenes from one of my favorite "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok" that I want you to upload someday. 1. "The Enterprise Crew Encounter The Children of Tama" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok") 2. "Picard and Dathon Attacked By The El-Adrel IV entity" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok") 3. "Picard and Dathon Successfully Communicate" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok") 4. "Enterprise D's Battle With a Tamarian Deep Space Cruiser" Battle scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok")
Star Trek Takes place 800 million years from now ... After Man has populated the Galaxy and then after a Galactic wide event , everyone started from scratch stuck on whatever planet they were originally on , and forgot..... Then in the New Earth year 800 million years later on April 5th 2063... you know the rest..
Qe2 luxury liner- Star trek the next generation S1 E26... complain about being compared to the Luxury Liner QE2 and not when another captain says that to Commander RIker about being on a Luxury Liner! lol
Director really wanted you to know that everyone likes Captain DeSoto.
At first glance/2nd glance, he looked like Frank Gorshin the Batman Riddler! Maybe his calmer matured twin brother. They say there is a 'twin' duplicate... hmmmmm? (Riddler laughing)
@@lawnmowermanTX I know the actor from an episode of the A Team and he was one of the thugs in The Enforcer (Dirty Harry series).
Technically he’s Admiral Robert DeSoto today.. Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television guest-credits include The West Wing, Joe Bash, Starman, Hunter, Monk and 24. He also served in the United States Navy, enlisting following graduation from high school, serving for three years while stationed in Hawaii.
@@esbam2002 my comments were being deleted due to being unoffensive but contributed to the history of the actor roles but Google RUclips hates me and deleted comments personally being violations of my 1st Amendment.. I photo snap my comments::
Technically he’s Admiral Robert DeSoto today.. Michael Cavanaugh (born November 21, 1942) is an American actor. Cavanaugh was born in New York City, and has performed in more than one hundred films since 1976. His television guest-credits include The West Wing, Joe Bash, Starman, Hunter, Monk and 24. He also served in the United States Navy, enlisting following graduation from high school, serving for three years while stationed in Hawaii.
I wish we could have had a few more episodes featuring Captain DeSoto. His warm casual attitude is like a breath of fresh air among all the serious disciplined Star Fleet types. You could see the bridge crew brighten up when he started talking.
That would've been cool to see, especially given the USS Hood's prominence as a background ship.
Yeah they never seemed to reoccur the good captains. Varley was good before he was blown up.
NIfty that DeSoto was even name dropped in DS9's 'Treachery, Faith and the Great River' episode, when Nog is telling O'Brien about Al Lorenzo and his penchant for getting selfies behind the desks of famous captains, Nog says 'He's got quite a collection. Captain DeSoto's desk, Captain Picard's.........' Even when the episode aired in 1998 the idea of the 'selfie' was born haha!!
@@bobpage6597I mean, people had analog cameras, and getting a picture of yourself somewhere was often a goal. It was simply not as easy since they were often too heavy to hold with one hand.
I always liked the idea that got thrown in occasionally on TNG and DS9 that DeSoto's USS Hood was also one of Starfleet's most celebrated ships, off having the same caliber of space adventures as the televised ships that we never got to see.
That would be an interesting series to watch or read, to see how a different crew on a ship smaller and less powerful then the Enterprise handles situations.
Majoring in psychology at Betazed University is like that French exchange student who comes to your high school and signs up for French.
J'ai déjà fait ça.
No it would be like learning ancient history directly from Herodotus himself. Or studying classical philiosophy in ancient Athens.
She’s only 1/2 Betazoid … so it took 2 hours instead of 1 to study.
lol
Emotions and feelings have more depth to them than what a Betazoid can feel, especially if being half Betazoid affects one’s empathic senses (not saying Deanna has or doesn’t have that sort of struggle for being half Human)
"Plus I got a passenger, hard to send via subspace."
"Only with that attitude. And not enough beagles to test." - Montgommery Scott, doing Subspace beaming experiments.
I could see a sitcom about De Soto and Jellico as roommates at Starfleet Academy 😂
According to a line from DS9, captain Desoto stands among the ranks of "great captains", including Sisko and of course PICARD!!!!
We need a Captain De Soto series! Who wants to start a petition drive to Paramount?
Would love to see the USS Hood (a wonderful Naval name) under Desoto get some love.
@@martinsleight321 Lets just hope it doesn't end the same way as its historic counterpart.
@@moot1119 Absolutely
@@LGranthamsHeir I'm still dreaming about a prequel with USS Intrepid and the young engineer Sergey Rozhenko
DeSoto seems like a really nice guy
for a guy hauling cargo between starbases.
We don't want Romulans listening to our conversations but I'll give you a lot of information right now
Best boss I've ever had.
"He waa a patient"
Later in the same episode we learnt that patience is a trait that Tam Elbrun lacks A LOT
Tam Elbrun needed Romulan Ale, and a Klingon Woman, he'll be fine! ;)
His patience was likely worn down to nothing by the thoughts of 1000 people crashing into his mind as well as his own internal doubts and how no one was letting him do what he felt needed to be done or was listening to his suggestions.
He could also have been angry at Picard and Riker's doubts in him and how Riker seemingly blamed him exclusively for the disastrous first contact mission he was part of 12 years earlier even though Darson didn't listen to his casual warnings about the aliens they were contacting.
*[DeSoto]:* “And we have a passenger for you - kinda hard to send by subspace.”
*[K'Ehleyr]:* “Hold my Class 8 probe . . .”
"Hood Out" badass line right there!
Depends. Do you know the fate of HMS Hood?
An Excelsior class ship captain calling the Galaxy class ship a luxury liner? Holy moly, the Galaxy class must have been an impressive upgrade!
Hey, now...Speak no evil of the Excelsiors! Like the Daedalus class of long before, they were the workhorses of the fleet for some 50 years.
you're going from motel 6 to the finest hotel you can think of
@@netsurferx1 More like 95, if Lower Decks is to be believed. The Hood being in that series.
The Excelsior class was the top of the line... over half a century earlier. Galaxy class was the most advanced and powerful Federation starship of its era. But it is a testament to its solid design that the Excelsior remained in service so long. That's not unprecedented, though. The Boeing B52 Stratofortress bomber is still in service with the US Airforce after 70 years, and expected to continue until 2050.
Apparently, DeSoto has since forgiven Riker for not letting him beam down to Altair III. Bygones, I guess. Then again, he doesn't seem like a guy who carries a grudge. It was nice that he gave Riker a good ribbing with the luxury liner remark, though. Classy. 😎👍
Agreed. His personality is so different from Captain Jellicoe, whom Riker would've a few run-ins later. I wish we'd see De Soto and USS Hood again. Perhaps there'll be a 'Short Trek' episode featuring him in the future?
I think that was in the first episode?
@@April-dv2pb It was right after the manual reconnection Picard ordered in "Encounter at Farpoint." Worthy of a video? 😉
Yes it is I will add that to my list.
DeSoto probably wasn't 'angry' about it. He likely just reprimanded him out of protocol.
Best boss I ever had.
Came here to see this, glad someone beat me to it. :-)
No one runs a foosball class starship like this guy!
Thanks for posting this scene.
This is a lesser example of a subtly that later STTNG seasons largely lost...military familiarity.
This scene has sort of a military banter/formality 'feel' to the dialog between the two captains that later seasons, sometimes lacked.
This makes sense as Gene Roddenberry was ex-military and ex-cop.
Whilst, none of the other Executive Producers had the slightest history of military/police background.
So, after Roddenberry got sicker (and eventually died in 1991) his influence and background would depreciate.
To the point that Starfleet from 1991 onwards, felt more - to me - like a government, bureaucratic hierarchy rather than a military one (though I realize the military is technically a government bureaucracy).
For better or worse.
☮
“We need the fastest ship in the fleet and the best people, unfortunately they weren’t available so I’m contacting you instead” 😁
I seriously wish he had said something like that.
@@danielnaylor3434same here
Troi: He was a patient.
Picard: Did you have any luck or was it the usual "I sense nothing Captain" nonsense that we keep hearing around here?
Up there with Captain Keogh as my favourite one episode, seem cool to chill with, Starfleet Captains.
That's a C/O I wouldn't mind serving under. Seems like one hell of a cool cat! Maybe there IS a little flavor in the Starfleet Command ranks after all?
Federation starships sure move fast when they have urgency.
Such a good friend he's never seen again.
Well, hard to be seen when all you're doing is hauling your butt back and forth between starbases.
Wasn’t the USS Hood destroyed eventually???? I get a strange feeling that it was a ship that was lost during a battle
@@ScottyBugler2005 Nope, the Hood showed up in both Operation Return and the first battle of Chin'toka during the Dominion War and survived them both.
Presumably DeSoto was still in command, too.
@@posindustries that’s alright then. I couldn’t remember whether or not the Hood was a survivor.
Best boss I ever had
Has great humility acknowledging Picard and crew are the best and has the fastest ship
As usual the writing is just so damn good. So much packed into this sequence.
Captain De Soto deserves his own series. Perhaps there'll be a future 'Short Trek' based on him and USS Hood in the near future?
I heard rumors about a new series idea. Bringing up old characters from the old sereis to tell us in 60 minutes/episode their story after the shows/movies. Maybe he could be in it.
They could do a comic or book series about it to satisfy those Star Trek fans who're fond of TNG era like me.
Sir, we are being hailed on a secure channel by Captain DeSoto
Michael Cavanaugh is a very truly underrated awesome actor he fits the role of Captain Robert DeSoto perfectly He was in the Hunter Pilot 1984 Episode As Captain Cain and was later replaced with Arthur Rosenberg playing that particular character
I bet he wouldn't even be mad if he caught Al Lorenzo behind his desk.
The hood should’ve been a galaxy class or at least a nebula class. Desoto is that good
Troi on a bridge with a dozen people: "So, this guy was my patient and I was his therapist - also, privacy ethics don't exist in the 23rd century, evidently!"
Nope apparently not, just like Riker and Troi making crew evaluations in public at a table in Ten Forward considering which junior officer to promote with the waiter snooping around...
HIPAA violation! 😜
It seems medical privacy isn't a thing in Starfleet. Even in other episodes we see people walk in and out of sick bay while others are having invasive medical procedures done and there aren't even privacy curtains around any of the beds.
@Frederick Fletcher Maybe there are perception filters between the stations we don't know about, so certain individuals don't see each other. I mean, we don't even see them, so they might be that effective.
Oh just out here flexin on you galaxy class boys. Hood out🖖
one of picard's bezzies that doesn't get killed interesting
Although the USS Hood probably couldn't match the Enterprise's top speed, you think they'd at least have kept the ship on course for backup. Would've been useful for dealing with those Romulan ships later.
Nice to see patient confidentiality is alive and well in the 24th century.
That Tin Man episode is the episode that keeps on giving lips.
"no, he was a patient" so much for doc client privilege!
Very cool they showed other Captains at times.
And not an emotionless control freak-type like Captain Jellicoe
@@LGranthamsHeir makes sense there got to be thousands of ships in starfleet thousands of captains and each fit into some group of captain. control freak, jovial, neutral etc.
@@joeswanson733 We did see a glimpse of the different personalities of other Starfleet captains in TNG, e.g., Jellicoe (control freak), De Soto (collegial), Garrett (heroic), Captain who leads the refueling starbase and later killed by space terrorists in Picard's reinterpretation of "Die Hard" (jovial), etc.
@@LGranthamsHeir I loved that episode where the enterprise was getting sweeped.... Actually worfs weapons saved the day supposed word keeps a bow in his quarters
Ah yes the Hood. The OTHER Starship that Starfleet has
Riker always knew people who advanced ahead of him.
As Picard said in "Encounter At Frpoint": "Bon voyage, mon ami."
My boi DeSoto cruises the galaxy at a cool warp 6 pace.
😎1:49😗
In his spare time he's a Q.
Family tune O’Bryan
you know he was hotboxing the hood all the time back in the day
He was the goon in The enforcer
I wanted him to say. Not today, we’re playing war games and this time no interference
An allegedly 'secure channel' but Picard orders it onscreen in public anyway? Why not his Ready Room?
Secure from outside the ship, not inside. Priority One is the one where it's for captain's eyes only.
@@posindustries Well yes but it was obviously important enough to transmit on a secure channel
"Fastest ship in the Fleet and the best people." I wonder if that assessment changed after they were easily disabled and captured by the Ferengi in old birds of prey?
About that, I like to pretend that episode never happened. The writers of that episode should be stoned for making Starfleet's finest ship and crew look weak, stupid and cowardly.
@@girlgarde I remember seeing it for the first time when I was 14 and thinking it was absurd.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 Same here. It was a stupid episode and the writers of said episode should be stoned for making the Federation's finest and the Federation as a whole look bad.
@@girlgarde The saddest thing is this was not even close to the lowest point.
@@Restitutor_Orbis_214 For me the lowest point in the series as a whole was when the Enterprise-D was destroyed just because of one outdated bird of prey. The writers and owners of Star Trek should've had the Duras Sisters ship be a Vor'cha class cruiser, an equal to the Enterprise-D so when the Duras Sisters' ship is destroyed, it's a big win for the Enterprise crew while the Enterprise being lost makes sense.
The plot thickens
Can you see the bridge crew working TEDIOUSLY charting planets?
Most days...
"Captain's Log, we rollin'. Shit ain't happenin'. Still waiting for Data to make me some robo-bootay. End log."
You know, I would actually like to see an episode of star trek where nothing happens. No disaster, no holodeck malfunctions, it's just the crew going about their day. We never really see what it's like on a normal day for them.
A real dude
DeSoto wouldve been fun to see again. And he kinda looks like Pat Sajack.
At 00:00 there is mysterious coded visual message!
I guess Deanna did not sense Tam from a distance.
This episode starts off so well and has a great premise and idea... then falls off a cliff. It was really disappointing.
Are you a friend of DeSoto?
Best boss I've ever had. ❤
if desoto thinks a galaxy class ship is a luxury liner i wonder what he calls a sovereign class ship
An experiment!
Ya
Time to rest now ☘️👒☀️🇮🇪 💦🏴
April 5, 2063
25.8K subscribers How are the next video uploads coming? Plus I have a few video request scenes from one of my favorite "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok" that I want you to upload someday.
1. "The Enterprise Crew Encounter The Children of Tama" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok")
2. "Picard and Dathon Attacked By The El-Adrel IV entity" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok")
3. "Picard and Dathon Successfully Communicate" scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok")
4. "Enterprise D's Battle With a Tamarian Deep Space Cruiser" Battle scene ("Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 5 episode 2 "Darmok")
Temba, his arms open! Thanks, Paul! Looking forward to it.
I will add this to my list. Good choices.
@@LGranthamsHeir Temba, at rest!
Stanford
Proxima C
Star Trek Takes place 800 million years from now ... After Man has populated the Galaxy and then after a Galactic wide event , everyone started from scratch stuck on whatever planet they were originally on , and forgot..... Then in the New Earth year 800 million years later on April 5th 2063... you know the rest..
What? No.
@@Eshanas ^ Awesome comment.
Qe2 luxury liner- Star trek the next generation S1 E26... complain about being compared to the Luxury Liner QE2 and not when another captain says that to Commander RIker about being on a Luxury Liner! lol
Nice catch 🖖. “The Neutral Zone” my favorite TNG episode...
There are some disasters that Starfleet keeps more classified than others. Mainly the Noodle Incident.
Moi
I'm not sure if I like this or not
Way to break patient counsellor confidentiality doofus
Best boss I ever had.
Best boss I ever had
Are you a friend of DeSoto?