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Star Trek: TNG 2x11 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-06-01 17:00:05
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Ryan

"Hello, this is Starfleet tech support, have you tried turning the ship off and on again?" This is one of those times where you have to force yourself to remember the state of technology at the time, with personal computers in their infancy, and that classic fix wasn't yet common knowledge and really did require a leap of creativity from the writer to make a twist like this. And even worse, the crew now coming off as horribly naive for transferring files straight from a ship they know has a virus without any kind of purging. The episode naturally gets a lot of mockery from younger people going back to the show after getting into current Trek, which it doesn't really deserve, but you can't deny it's funny. Even Roddenberry himself was driven to berate the crew from his retirement, not believing this kind of thing could happen until some of the younger staff members explained computer viruses to him. Of course, the true iconic moment of the episode is Picard giving his first order of "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," which became so beloved that every captain since has been given their own favorite drink like Sisko's Raktajino and Janeway's coffee. And the replicator's mixup is now even more amusing for its resemblance to the classic cactus gag from The Good Place.

Josef Schiltz

Q&A at TNG EXposed. Technobabble Red Alert! Aaron Douglas: I'd like to direct my two comments, slash questions, at Mr. Wheaton. First is a comment. Mr. Wheaton, I disagree with you completely, there is no such thing as faster than light neutrinos and secondly on a serious note . . . Wil Wheaton: Wait! To challenge the premise of your question, sir . . . Neutrinos as exist in the vacuum of space or faster than light neutrinos as exist when emitted through the main navigational deflector in an inverse tachyon beam through the bussard collectors in order to properly modulate the matter/antimatter intermix in the warp core? Aaron Douglas: My ship jumped, didn't have a warp core. Frack you, Wil Wheaton!

Thomas Corp

This episode did put you through the tense roller coaster. It is a highlight, as you observed, the conflict with the Romulans was something more akin to an impasse of maybe things could get ugly, or it’s just a genuine misunderstanding. Carolyn Seymour was great as Captain Taris. (Boy, it sounds weird hearing that name in Star Trek instead of Star Wars.) You and I both quite liked the scene where Riker tells her to blow up the probe. Particularly great how Carolyn sells first the moment where she yells “What!?” as if saying, “Wait, you WANT me to shoot!?” and when Riker offers the warning again, that perfect look of, “Oh, God, you’re serious!” Sidenote, I too like the Romulan quilty outfits. They do indeed look warm and comfy. The automatic doors going screwy was the first sign of trouble, but I got reminded of at work when the doors act up, it usually just means someone didn’t turn them on the right way, or they’re on the fritz and need to get looked at. So, for me, that by itself wouldn’t be the biggest cause for alarm. The inaugural occasion of Picard calling for his tea, Earl Grey, hot, being soured by the cactus, that sets off more alarm bells. Though he’s not the central focus, it is great to see Geordi doing the work to figure out what’s up. I KNEW, Jess, that you would have a strong reaction to Geordi getting tossed about. If that wasn’t LeVar himself, they got a good looking stuntman to fill in. It is fantastic how Geordi bursts in, yells to destroy the probe, and Picard’s trust in Geordi is such that Picard doesn’t even bat an eyelash. Loved your reaction to that, and when Data chucked Geordi. Both LeVar and Brent were delightful there. Another occasion where it’s shown that unlike the original series, in Next Gen, most of the time at least, the two top men of the Enterprise don’t beam down together. Love Picard’s scenes with Worf, Patrick and Michael being phenomenal. Picard got me emotional staying behind. Obviously, you knew Data would be fine, but seeing LeVar perform Geordi’s scene where it looks like they lost Data, it gets you as bad as Anthony Daniels gets you when he sells the scene in Clone Wars when 3PO and R2 lose power. I loved how you got the kick of Riker speculating that Geordi is more impressive than the Romulan engineer. Which he is. As Ryan notes, the episode is somewhat mocked in retrospect, though I factor in when it’s made and where we were at, technology-wise when this was made. Not to mention how it’s not as widespread as it is today. It’s like Alien which takes place about a century from now, and the intellectual surmise about how far technology has advanced is predicated on seventies technology. It’s a similar thing here where awareness of technology isn’t what it is today. The internet was still relatively young, thus when viewing the now quaint aspects of the episode, you factor all that in and let some things slide, whilst still getting in a mite bit of ribbing. I do concur that the episode had lots of great small moments. Marina got a good one with her scene of Deanna offering the idea of giving the crew the distraction. Dr. Pulaski has the good one, slightly undercut by the writing feeling like stuff Bones would say, showing again how the writers tried to make her Bones 2.0. Still, she does get a good moment. Speaking of Dr. Pulaski, I had to suppress a laugh when it got mentioned that Dr. Pulaski refused to use the turbolifts, and I deadpanned, “There’s another reason for that.” The moment Picard has with Wesley is indeed a good one. Yes, much though he makes the valiant effort to hide it, we all know that old Jean-Luc is a rank sentimentalist. You mention wanting a good Geordi episode. In terms of good a Geordi episode, there are the two that are my favorites, though alas, they won’t be until late season five. I’m greatly anticipating your reactions and/or potential rewatchs/recitations chapter and verse. Until then, I’m not remembering when we will get a particularly good Geordi episode, at least in this season. In any event, this was a fun reaction, Jess. Thank you, and I hope you feel better soon.

Ziro the Hutt

This is a fun one, grabbing you in from the start, with a solid plot and great character moments. Firstly I do like seeing Wesley dwelling on what happened to the Yamato. Its probably the first time he's seen such devastation and that would be a horrific experience to watch. I get like that when watching the news and something bad happens and its shown, and it takes a while for me to get over it; and I'm about 3 times older than Wesley was here! Of course the rest of the crew are equally as troubled by that catastrophe, but they are trained officers and danger comes with the job, so are better equipped to deal with it. What I like so much with what they do with the TNG crew, is show that none of them are unapproachable, even Worf. And one would think Picard would be the most terrifying for a young person, who isn't even an officer, to approach on such things; but thats one of the great things about him (and as I said most of the crew), is that there is no airs and graces to him, he is there for everyone on board not just his command crew. I watched this episode again the other day as I'm going through the series once more, and I knew how you'd react to poor Geordi getting ragdolled in the turbolift like that! It would have been another terrifying experience and enough to put one off of using them. As anyone who has been stuck in a lift (and I was many times growing up as I lived on a fifth floor flat back then), you always dread that you'll get stuck in one alone! A friend of mine lived on the fifteenth floor and I hated getting the lift up to visit him, I dunno how he did it! :D Then poor Geordi gets electrocuted and thrown about five metres accidentally from Data! He was going through it this episode. Thankfully he and Picard are the heroes here and get the crew, and those pesky Romulans, out of trouble. One thing I wondered, is how they were able to download the Yamato Captain's logs? Did they do so when he requested their help before the ship was destroyed, or is each log uploaded to a Starfleet "cloud" like we have today. I also note Picard doing a voice search like we have on our phones and other devices today - cool, but scary! I know most people say TNG doesn't really get going until season 3 when it gets truly into its stride, but I have to say on rewatching season 2, I'm enjoying most of the episodes I've seen again, even the ones that when I watched as a kid, I wasn't too enamoured with.