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Star Trek TNG 4×11 Full Reaction

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Josef Schiltz

Well, no matter how many times I reload and try again, the ST TNG reactions continually freeze. The Doctor Who reactions work a treat. I guess I'll just stick to the Who. A shame. I've no idea why this has started to happen. Sorry Jess. It's most likely my server in the UK being crap. Thanks, Talktalk!

Thomas Corp

This one was a beautiful episode, like you said. And interesting how you recall seeing it, though it’s not one of your chapter and verse episodes, leaving us with the delightful reaction of you rediscovering the loveliness of this one. So, as I’ve said, this is a show that I rank favorite episodes by character, and Data is the one I’ve yet to fully settle on. It is down to the handful, of which, we’ve covered The Measure of a Man, The Most Toys, and Brothers. This is another one of the picks for favorite Data episode, and at present, it’s feeling like this one has the slightest edge, though I reserve settling on this being my favorite Data episode until we get to the last of the handful of episodes in competition, which if I recall correctly, the last one’s not until next season. This one does have the advantage of its structure being something I adore in episodes of television. Particularly, as you highlighted, the greater focus on the day-to-day life of our heroes, and less on the drama or suspense. We agree on the love for when this show lets the character focus just breathe as it does. Yes, it is so lovely to hear Brent sell just everything about Data’s feelings for the crew. Beautiful for the soul, as you said, Jess. Knew you’d love the one scene with Geordi where Geordi advises Data to not engage in the friendly trash talking with Picard. Frist time we see Keiko. Lovely to see you have the love for Keiko, which I was expecting. Rosalind Chao is a treasure, and it’s good to revisit her first appearance as Keiko. Considering your love of Deep Space Nine, you know that at some point O’Brien and Keiko do get married, though Keiko does get some cold feet. If I was ever in that situation, yes, I would rather hear that the wedding would be called off from the bride to be, and I would not wish to hear the news via a proxy. I very much liked your reaction to when O’Brien was asking Data to talk to Keiko. God it was sweet as all hell, seeing your reaction to our introduction to Spot. One of the bigger talking points is the scene of Gates getting to show off her dancing skills in that oh so very sweet scene of teaching Data how to dance. Adored every part of your reaction to that, Jess. Data’s one smile does make us say, “Data, Beverly said to look like you’re enjoying yourself, not that you’re planning to kill Batman!” Loved your laugh at Data’s rather unnerving smile. Just love how seriously Data took the responsibility of his wedding duties. There was some strong relation. How Data senses anticipation regarding the role of giving the bride away, the feeling is familiar to me, I had much the same thing when it was my responsibility to walk my sister in-law down the aisle, and I had to do it twice given how covid made all the wedding plans go a bit screwy. The dancing thing, sweet that Data wanted to be able to dance well for the event. Can’t say I did what Data did with learning the moves as none of us had a lot of time for that. I only did the one dance with my sister in-law as I otherwise had no energy for dancing that night. Cracked me up, your very judgy response to Keiko’s choice of carnation for Data to wear. Honestly, I don’t see why the men have to wear any flower on their lapel for weddings, but perhaps that’s just me. Do you have the option to forgo that? Or is that too much of a faux pas? In the end, they go through with the wedding, and your reaction was most sweet, Jess. It is a very you thing that the outfits stand out very prominently in your memories. The drama of the Romulan stoolie was great. We both clocked the lady being suspicious at the one scene. Love how Data admits something felt off, even without the precise human intuition. We both called something being off on the transporter “malfunction”. O’Brien’s too good at his job, so the smell of rottenness was potent with this one. Combined with Geordi being his brilliant self, Data exhibiting the Holmesian deductions, and Beverly being as good as she is, the crew figured shit out in a marvelous manner. Picard dealing with the Romulan shenanigans with his customary excellence was great. The Romulans technically do score the win, though the game is up, therefore, it is the proverbial draw. And it’s the sweet subplot of the baby being born, loved Picard’s scene there. One last highlight. Your reaction to Data’s line about humor in relation to sex. Your comment, “We all love a good knock-knock joke during sex.”, my response being, “...If you say so?” Really, though, I did get a good laugh at that part of the reaction. Oh, yes, this reaction was just wonderful, Jess. Thank you very much for your reaction to yet another of my favorite Data episodes.

Geordie Joe

Admiral Mendak always reminds me of Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars. He has a very similar manner of speaking to Thrawn, and he's just as cunning too, it seems. We get a nice callback to The Measure of a Man with Data writing letters to Commander Bruce Maddox. Data said in that episode after winning his case that he would help Maddox with his work on androids when he was ready. It's always nice to have that continuity from previous episodes. Looking forward to next week's reaction. It's one of my favourite episodes from this season.

Ryan

I feel like I should state at the top that at the time I'm writing this, the Doctor Who finale has put me in a very foul mood, which I'm going to just try to stop from seeping in here (and don't take that as any kind of spoiler, since several points in your time with the show have demonstrated we look for very different things from it in some ways, and I'm hoping you like what I'm talking about). And conveniently, this is a really beautiful episode as you keep pointing out. Of course, a main appeal here for someone like me is getting to spend so much time with Data's troubles understanding the nuances of human interaction, which was very much my autistic self when I first watched the episode, but I've gotten a lot better in the years since. I definitely would have done the whole "someone must be happy because someone else is happy" thing back then. And he has the tremendous advantage of someone as patient and understanding as Geordi to bounce these things off of, who lets any mistake wash off his back the moment he realizes what Data's trying to do. Total agreement in my confusion over why Beverly wouldn't want to be called the dancing doctor. That only means that just this once, everybody lives. And the real reason this whole subplot exists is because Gates started out as a dancer and choreographer (just check out The Muppets Take Manhattan for some prime material there), and she's doing all that tap work (while if you know what you're looking for, you can see Brent did some of the simpler moves, but when it gets more advanced he's replaced with a dance double who keeps his face down, or is just filmed from far away). And just why can't there be tap dancing at a wedding, anyway? It would definitely get me to attend more of them. It's pretty safe to guess Ron Moore's co-writing credit involved the Romulan material, as something of a sequel to The Defector. I didn't see the twist coming, and it's quite a brave choice to make Picard just have to eat this defeat, his only consolation that they managed to discover the spy and can get to work on figuring out exactly how much she could have had access to which is compromised. And some killer foreshadowing with her attempt to get Data to spill classified secrets. I also very much suspect that Moore borrowed the ending scene with the baby for the first regular Battlestar episode, where they add one to the number of living humans because a baby was born during the chaos of having to jump every 33 minutes. Maybe even more than Worf's discommendation storyline, the introduction of Keiko is a big step towards TV becoming more serialized, with O'Brien being a years-established character who now has this huge permanent change in his life. And no one could have imagined at the time that we'd get to see Miles and Keiko continue their relationship and have a family over the course of two shows, all of it beautifully building on the rest. Rosalind Chao was a real find and I wish she was able to find more work outside Trek, though The Joy Luck Club is a big feather in her cap either way.

Josef Schiltz

What a beautiful reaction. This is really a great episode. Gates is really known as The Dancing Doctor! That smile that Brent affected on the holodeck was hilarious.

Thomas Corp

Glad to see that you saw and enjoyed the reaction. That smile does leave you in stitches, yes.

Paul Hayes

A lovely reaction, which I very much enjoyed.