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Star Trek: TNG 4x03 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2025-04-05 17:00:03
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Star Trek TNG 4×03 Full Reaction

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Geordie Joe

It's Data's turn for a family focused episode. Only 3 episodes in to this season and we've already had Worf's lovely parents, a message from Wesley's dad, the Picard brothers and now the Soong-type android brothers and Data's father. Family seems to be the theme of season 4. I'm surprised that Starfleet just lets Data return to service after the events of this episode like nothing happened. Given how easily he was controlled by Doctor Noonien Soong and then took over the Enterprise, he could be a considerable security risk in the wrong hands. He could easily go all Winter Soldier on the entire crew if some outside force learned how to hack him and decided to use Data as a weapon against Starfleet. Brent Spiner in that old man makeup reminds me of Eleven in The Time of the Doctor.

Dave Hampton

Yes, that was Brent playing Data's dad. Also, the episode on your birthday is one I have had circled on my calendar (and not just because it is your birthday though that crossed my mind) for a while. It was a tentative circle because I did not know if you would maybe take a break sometime before it and push it back a bit but a circle none the less. I do not know what you will make of it (though I have some thoughts) but I am looking forward to seeing your reaction to it. : )

Ryan

This is one of Rick Berman's favorite episodes, but fuck him, I try not to hold that against it. Of course, the main attraction here is Brent's triple acting feat, which actually wasn't intended. As implied by his name, the crew had always considered Noonian Soong to be Asian, and here they wanted him to be played by Keye Luke, who'd guest starred in the Original Series episode Whom Gods Destroy and was recently in the public eye again due to his role in Gremlins. But it turned out his health had taken a turn for the worse which caused him to retire from acting, so they figured with Lore already looking just like Data, they might as well take the gag further and have Soong be egotistical enough to make all his robots look like him. Brent has spoken a few times about how incredibly difficult this shoot was, responding to other crew members saying what were meant to be his own lines while trying to stay in the mindset of whoever he was playing at the moment, and about half and half on whether he'd actually already delivered the other lines himself. I imagine he watches The Patty Duke Show with awestruck wonder after all the work he needed for just one episode. There's a really neat setup here where the dramatic stakes are genuinely dire, yet you also very much want to see more of this meeting that fans had waited years for. I don't know that you really need the whole subplot with the kids as the main message comes through fine without it, but they're decent enough actors and give Gates some good material. And big kudos to both Patrick for being able to clearly spit out all those numbers rapid fire and Brent perfectly miming it; I really don't want to know how many takes that needed. I imagine he was given some thanks afterward for exposing these holes in their security with ultimately no permanent harm done; in particular it really seems there should be some way to confirm the person who seems to be speaking is actually in the room the voice is coming from. After Sins of the Father broke the ice on it, you can feel this episode's ending being much more confident in leaving things open and trusting the audience will be able to remember what's up by the time it circles back to whatever Lore's up to. And that's refreshingly hard to predict too, unlike how you had to assume Worf would expose the conspiracy and get his honor back at some point. Season 3 raised the bar very high, and so far this season is definitely matching it.

Thomas Corp

No worries on the consistent clearing of the throat. You did say you had a testing morning. Concerning the episode. You speak of wanting a solid episode for your birthday in four weeks’ time. I had the similar hope for today on my birthday, and when finding out what we would be revisiting, I was most happy with it. I mentioned before how, like with M*A*S*H, the Star Trek shows are harder to rank in a conventional top ten manner, and instead, I tend to rank favorites by character. Data is interesting in that unlike the other characters where I have a clear favorite, he’s the only one I can’t settle on a favorite, though I have it down to a handful. Measure of a Man and The Most Toys being two that we’ve gotten to thus far. This is another such Data episode that competes for being my favorite Data episode. Starts out with quite the dilemma of Data rather effortlessly taking control of the Enterprise. Love how you clocked the switch being flipped, and you had such the “What the hell is going on here?” energy to all of it. You spoke of the ease with which Data operated. Does show the trust the crew has in him. This did also transpire shortly after recovering from Wolf 359, so maybe some of the systems of security still weren’t fully back yet. To our heroes’ credit, they do make a good showing on trying to stop Data, and the writing doesn’t make it COMPLETELY one-sided. Shout out to Geordi and Riker in getting work done on getting onto the planet at the end. Love, once again, Jess, your encouragement of Geordi. And the words offered of Beverly can get shit done was much appreciated. Either way, yeah, they need to crack down on beefing up the security protocols. Love your little dance to the incredibly damn strong password that Data implemented, followed by your, “Everybody got that?” aside to us. The heart of this is Data’s family reunion, and yes, Brent is Dr. Soong as well. Always nice to see you react to a surprise Betty, which yes, I did catch that. Said family reunion includes Lore, love your reaction to hie surprise appearance. (Them damn Pakleds.) Very generous of the guest star credits to not give the game away, yes? Two episodes in a row dealing with great brotherly stories. Though this one doesn’t overwhelm as much with the emotions, it is more than solid. I just really adored how you reacted to all the family scenes and assessed everything as you did. Brent had some damn good Peter Sellers energy in this one. It’s a surprising moment when Lore actually gets you in the heart some with his disbelief that Dr. Soong is dying. You caught it well, how he keeps repeating that, in the hope that it will ultimately become true. All the fuss caused as Dr. Soong wishes to gift Data the emotion chip. Unfortunately, it does not go as planned. A fact you predicted by it not being a good idea to let Lore be unattended. And sure enough: Like Jacob, Lore impersonates his brother so that he can steal the blessing that the dying father intended to bestow to said brother. Something Dr. Soong himself observes after the fact. Lore vamooses after that, guaranteeing we will see him again, like you said. We’re simpatico on the thumbnail closeup. You kept saying, “Oh, I didn’t like that.”, me, I said, “Ok, oh, I hate that!”. Great how Riker holds little to no ill-will when Data realizes what he did. A somber note when Dr. Soong has his goodbye to Data. You said you would have liked to have had Geordi be with Data in the end. I do concede, Jess, that it would have been very sweet. And much though I do appreciate you encouraging Data to have some bestie support, in a scenario of a guy saying goodbye to his dad, if his brother/siblings are not there with him, then a man needs to be alone for that, if he is, for want of a better word, lucky enough to have the chance. Of course, you reject the idea of Data being unable to mourn or grieve given his grief for Tasha, not to mention how you hold true to believing how droids across many a franchise beginning with the word “Star” having very strong emotions. Bringing us to the B-plot, which opens with “the worst case of being sent to the principal’s office”, as you described. Similar boat as you, my brother and I never quite pulled any shit as kids, barring some garden variety small shit, sometimes involving our cousin on our mom’s side. Nothing serious. Kids do stupid shit, yes. My brother and I never pulled any shit THAT FUCKING STUPID when we were kids. I can’t tell who we’d have been in deeper shit with if we had, our parents or our grandparents. The parallel story with the brothers is done well. Lovely that Gates has some very good scenes as Beverly being as sweet as she is, like you highlighted, Jess. Some nice Beverly moments on my birthday is another treat, love her small scene with Picard at the end when we also see the brothers reconciled with the help of the Bettys as you delightfully discovered. Bettys doth hold much therapeutic value, yes. All in all, this was just a very lovely reaction to enjoy on my birthday, thank you so very much, Jess.

Paul Hayes

An interesting choice to do two episodes in a row which both centre on the relationships between brothers.

Josef Schiltz

Ladies and gentlemen; Mr Brent Spiner!!