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Silicon Avatar, Gallifrey Gals Get Warped! S5Ep4 (Patreon)

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2022-01-25 18:00:05
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An episode that Paula is rediscovering along side Katrina! We always have those episodes that we totally blank out but become more familiar as we find them once again! Happy Trekkie Tuesday! 

PAULA DEMING

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Comments

Andrew Hogan

Somebody went to the stylist

David Brown

It is still rather irritating with the reactions being several seconds ahead of the footage provided. It would just be better to not provide footage and we just sync-up our own copy of the episode to be in sync with the reactions, like most other reactors do. It also helps with copyright issues.

Mike

When I was young I thought this episode's title was Silicon Aviator, like a pilot for a plane. I was very confused haha

John Savage

I always enjoy your reviews and i hope you'll forgive me if you have already addressed this but your reactions are a few seconds in front of the video we see can that not be helped?

Mark Ten

I blame Troi, if she was doing her job this would have never happened. Katrina, when you first came on I couldnt see you were wearing a choker, just the bauble. I though you had pierced your throat! Pls dont scare me like that.

Brad Barter

I like your channel but please try to keep chat about things like who is a better Captain to before your reaction videos as the random rant went right into the death of Carmen. I know she had a short spot in the episode but by the time the energy weapon hit the focus should've been on the reaction as it happens and not in the middle of the action. No hate, love you guys, just trying to bring focus to reacting.

Brad Barter

Having lived through, recorded on VHS and watched the single rerun at each seasons halfway mark, it wasn't until around 1992 that TNG as well as having the original series included for individual networks to finally have the first couple of seasons go into syndication. That means unless you had recorded it you couldn't watch the older seasons again on TV until this occurred. I remember being excited and recording those episodes I didn't have and also called the local TV station to get them to show Symbiosis and Skin of Evil in the proper order as another channel before them didn't and had Tasha die then be alive in the next episode as they were shown in order number filmed instead of order they aired. So imagine waiting those 4 years and being shown the crystalline entity and being expected to remember it so even much more of a break than with the reaction channel.

Dan Crucy

I remember seeing an interview with the writers where they said they liked the title "Silicon Avatar" because it could refer to either the crystalline entity or Data.

Henchman Twenty1

After viewing this episode after it first aired I turned to my brother and told him that if a giant crystalline entity ever killed me he had my permission to destroy it. While I do not agree with WHY she destroyed it, revenge, I do agree with that it needed to be destroyed. In my opinion it had already proven itself to be malevolent by conspiring with Lore to kill the crew of the Enterprise. It knew what it was doing. When it attacked the colony here it just happed to start right where the colonists were on an entire planet. Intent. If the thing is capable of reproducing it would likely be in the hundreds or thousands. Sometimes monsters must die, without trying to get them to explore their feelings.

Nolan

This episode has a lot of small things that boost the emotional storytelling. Like Picard, sitting with his foot on his desk, then nonchalantly lowering it to his leg as he responds to the door chime. But the best one is when Data is reading out that letter in which it talks about Mara's having a great sense of humor. Which there isn't a SINGLE SIGN of in the entire episode. In that one line you see how much she's lost and changed after the death of her son. Even as she warms to Data and clings to him as the embodiment of her dead son, she still never regains her humor, foreshadowing her actions at the end of the episode. The Chrystaline Entities and the space jellyfish from the pilot both make a return in some non-canon follow-up novels taking place after the series which explored the space ecosystem they inhabited.

DC

Can't you just do that anyway if you have an issue with it? You don't have to pay attention to the episode footage if you're just interested in the reactions and want to use your own copy.

DC

It's the unfortunate conundrum of Troi and them figuring out how and when to use her. Her empathic ability could (and should) solve a lot of problems that it doesn't, but then you wouldn't have full episodes. I remember at a convention someone asked Marina Sirtis about why they didn't use her ability more often and she talked about not being included in some episodes just because they wanted to avoid having her empathic power impact plots.

John Welch

While I agree that Mara was to gung ho to destroy the entity I always felt like Picard was playing it too low key. This thing was a killer. The fact that it was intelligent and not a dumb animal makes it even more dangerous. A creature that can actively conspire with another lifeform to wipe out a whole colony is not something you want to give the benefit of the doubt to.

David Brown

But the sound from their footage is still there. There's no way to get rid of the sound from the footage and still have have sound from The Gals.

Mark Steckel

It's funny, when this episode first aired my reaction was just like Katrina's... not knowing what Riker was talking about when he said "we've seen this before." (Of course, in the intervening years I’ve watched every episode about a zillion times.) So I was a bit upset when she didn’t remember it. But then it (finally) occurred to me that Kat hasn’t seen every episode a zillion times, like I have. Her reaction was just like my first reaction. Sorry for the “instant judgement” Katrina. 🙂

Kirk Deighton

Picard's calm reverence for all life is a big part why he was my favorite. I also liked how the crew weren't about vengeance.

fryke

You seem to mistake her for a mindreader. She only reads the emotions of Dr. Marr in that moment. And those quite probably are "happy I've found a way to reach my goal, I'm going to make my son happy...". The anger towards the crystalline being wasn't anything new to that moment. Also, plenty of other beings in the room. If anything, Troi's focus was on the crystalline being in that moment. Also, of course, the God of the Narrative had decided that she'd manage to kill it. Quite unexplainable to me that Picard doesn't simply have some sort of Captain-override for this to stop her. But again: God of the Narrative had decided the outcome. :)

Mark Chrisco

Somehow I doubt the inhabitants of the planets the entity was heading for or the relatives of the lost crew and colonists ended up cursing Dr. Marr's name. Even Riker was sympathetic to her actions. She would probably get a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue her research with the quiet thanks of many for ridding space of what amounted to a Great White Shark. The argument the shark had just as much right as swimmers to be in the waters just won't cut it in this case.

John

But I like Picard better than Kirk.... -episode happens- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

AJ

It was literally when I saw the notification for this video (so prior to Paula saying out loud so I'm not a complete doofus), that I realised that the episode title would be pronounced the way it is, not "a-VAR-ta". Apparently I hadn't come across the word before - no idea how old I would have been, because apparently TNG didn't first air, as in S1E01, in Australia until about 2 weeks after this aired in the US - took a long time for me to hear it said out loud, and had it so locked in my head that the episode somehow had a different word.

JXTN

I don't think she'd go to prison or anything, but I think the Federation scientific community would be more aligned with Picard's perspective than Riker's, and wouldn't want her involved with them. She's on her own out in the cold, now.

JXTN

I think you said that they attacked the Borg immediately, but that's not true. Picard attempted peaceful communications with the initial boarding Borg back in S2.

JXTN

The problem with Troi isn't just that she is or isn't useful, it's that Guinan is consistently better at Troi's job than she is.

Chris Neumann

So I think a thing with these callbacks to season one (let's not forget about Minuet's reappearance in season four) is that when this show was on, the episodes were in rotation constantly. So while Katrina is just moving forward one at a time, the original Crystalline Entity episode had probably aired a hundred times by the time this episode came out. So the audiences in the early 90s might have remembered the entity more than we bingers would.

Joshua Gosdin

Man oh man, I'd forgotten how gray season five is. There are so few cut-and-dry choices, or so few choices that don't generate bifurcating discourse. Like this episode! Who was right? Who was wrong? Was there a villain? So good. Thanks as always!

Chris Lane

I understand Picard's point of view in this episode but he doesn't communicate it very well (ironic?). It would have been better for him to say they need more information in case they encounter more like that entity in the future, and to provide reasoning that they are killing sentient life, etc.

Mark Ten

She should have picked up the desire for revenge, sneakiness, fear of being caught, etc. She can tell when Klingons are going to launch a sneak attack across thousands of kilometers of empty space! Anyway, Data also bears some responsibility, he was there when Marr reprogrammed the software and didnt notice what was done with the code. Thats the problem with the Command Crew - no one takes responsibility

Neil McRae

Bit of trivia: The voice recording of Raymond Marr was provided by Jason Marsden, a very prolific voice actor. You might remember him as the voice of Max in "A Goofy Movie".

Bluefox

I doubt it. Most people understand that killing is wrong except as a last resort. I don't see anyone in the Federation siding with trapping an entity, then killing it before you even try any other solution. There's a reason why the Federation pushed the idea of communicating with the Entity, rather than just shooting at it with their most powerful weapons. The goal of the Federation (and, by extension, what TNG says should be the goal of humanity) is peaceful coexistence with everyone. Killing is a last resort. They had the entity incapacitated. They could have tried to negotiate with it. Maybe it wouldn't work, and then killing it would make sense. But the woman here was so blinded by her grief that she went out of her way to use her instrument to kill it. That's why the episode makes it clear that her kid would not have in any way been okay with her taking a life out of revenge for his own.

Bluefox

The problem isn't just the motivation. It's that she killed it while she had it trapped, rather than even attempting any communication. It's not actually clear in the episode that it knows what it is doing, or that there might not be a way to stop it without killing it. The whole idea is that they are going to try to let it know that it is killing sapient life, not just, say, shooting some wild animals. And then to try and negotiate with it to stop it without killing it. Sure, that negotiation may fail, making killing the only choice. But the problem is that Dr. Barr decided to kill it before that point. She spends all that time making a device to try to communicate with it, telling everyone that's what she's doing to do, getting Federation approval--and then she just kills it. Sure, the son didn't approve. But I don't think it would have been right to kill it even if the son did. Not until actually seeing if it knew what it was doing and trying to get it to stop. Killing should be the last resort, not the first resort. I'm sure that's why the Federation didn't just shoot it with a few photon torpedoes when it was far enough away from a planet not to cause any damage. I feel the episode, in trying to explain Dr. Marr, went a bit too far it making it seem like the problem was merely killing out of vengeance. The problem was killing without trying all other available options first. That fits with how TNG works in other episodes.

Bluefox

Yeah, but then you get into other problems, where you don't know if you're synched up, or an alarm or something else that stops one video gets everything out of alignment, and you have to either restart the whole thing or guess. As long as they can keep the copyright bots at bay, it would really be a lot more convenient if they'd just get the video aligned better. My guess is that it's aligned to Paula, but Paula is delayed by a couple seconds from Katrina.

Henchman Twenty1

It was in communication with Lore when it wiped out the Omicron whatever colony were Dr. Soong was. It communicated with Lore when he impersonated Data and tried to trick the crew into lowering the shields so it could kill every man, woman and child onboard. It knew what it was doing and there was intent and collaboration. What were they going to do with it? Put it in a jar? Even if it developed a conscience it still needed to strip worlds of life for it to feed, sentient life present on those worlds or not. Even if there were was no humanoid life on the world what about animals such dolphins and whales and horses and so on? As I said, sometimes monsters need to die. My dad told me a story of when he was in elementary school and they had a praying mantis in a glass tank in the classroom and the teacher put a bunch of crickets in there to feed it. They would see how many it ate each day. One morning they came in and the mantis was gone except for its legs. The crickets had ganged up on it and ate the mantis instead of being picked off one at a time and devoured. There is a word for that - Survival.

Sal Sanchez

Folks in the Fandom gotta realize, Picard and Kirk lived in two completely different time periods. Even Cpt. Janeway (ST: Voyager) acknowledged that in the episode "Flashback". Picard is operating in a universe that had to be tamed by pioneers before him. And Picard can be the best at his job BECAUSE Starfleet officers like Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the others were the best at theirs. One is not better than the other and fans should be comfortable with each mans place in the Star Trek universe.

David Brown

Watch Paula's reaction when Data's talking about the girl the Dr.'s son liked. She's also still ahead of the footage provided.

Chrono Gamer

I actually vividly remember watching this episode as a kid. The final scene where data tells her that her son would not have liked what she did really impacted me and has stuck with me over the years. It was a gut punch of an ending, for sure.

Bluefox

By the way, it was really nice when you were including the links for each video. This lets you play it in the app instead of your browser, which often works better. It would be nice if you'd include them in the future.

Raja

Did it actively conspire to wipe out the Omicron Theta colony or the Enterprise crew, though? From what I recall it could be that each time Lore may have simply lured it into doing what he wanted it to do.

John Welch

Lore communicated with it. There is a scene in "Datalore" where lore sends it a message telling it he is going under the name of data. Upon reaching the enterprise The Entity does not attack it just waits. Once lore is defeated the entity flees. This implies not just consciousness but an alliance.

Rob Lee

We see throughout this episode Picard's wisdom in setting aside personal feelings in order to see things objectively yet ironically that same wisdom doesn't even spare him as we see in "I, Borg" in the next season how his own personal trauma with the Borg affected his perception of Hugh & in Star Trek's 8th film.Of course this is all fiction but it just goes to show that when it comes to our own personal trauma we aren't immune to our own bias and prejudices. This is why I love TNG.