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Star Trek: TNG 4x19 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2025-07-26 17:00:10
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Star Trek TNG 4×19 Full Reaction

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Ryan

Barclay's episode last season was such a big hit with the whole crew that they immediately wanted to bring him back, but it took another year to come up with a story they thought would be worth telling with him that wouldn't just be a retread. And it certainly starts with a bang, featuring magnificent costume work as he's now gotten enough confidence to get in front of everyone as a man who can satisfy two women at once, whose nose affects the tides, whose nose is on time but he's 15 minutes late, who can smell his own ear, and his name wouldn't be Dick, would it? But that's all just a distraction from the real story they're pulling from, Flowers for Algernon. A book I read in 8th grade and it completely wrecked me (and was an unexpected introduction to certain sex terms; I've always wondered just how much the teacher remembered about that when she assigned it to us). If Dwight's first time in the role was already a daring departure from his reputation as Howling Mad Murdock, this one goes even further, and he completely nails every stage of the growing intelligence, aided by writing that's rather more nuanced than something like we got when Riker got Q's powers and instantly went mad with them. But however long it takes, soon he's gone from a guy as great as Buzz Aldrin to someone who'd cover up a CIA oil stealing operation, maybe even someday declaring "Like the mighty fist of god, Armageddon will descend upon the city of Los Angeles. The city of sin, the city of Gomorrah, the city of Sodom, and waters will rise and separate this sinful, sinful city from our country." But eventually he has to realize that with great power, well, everyone knows the rest. It's just too bad that removing it makes him stupid enough to become such a right wing lunatic that the Picard series would refuse to ever acknowledge his existence even as it made much deeper lore pulls. The incoming message from the Big Giant Head at the end is also quite a fun bit (and your reaction to his appearance was much appreciated), with how he takes so long acting like the crew are just bugs on a slide before he's willing to talk on something approaching a respectful level. Because how else would you expect a race this advanced to view us? I'm already pretty settled in the theory that the rest of the universe views Earth as an embarrassing hick town where they shouldn't even stop for gas, so this guy can keep it up all he wants.

Thomas Corp

Good to hear that the Geordi redemption has made all right in the world, and that you felt really good going into the episode of Star Trek: Flowers for Algernon. Been some time since seeing this one; memory was fuzzy on specifics. Love that you found it most interesting and were unclear about what direction it was going. Beautiful opening of Barclay and Beverly performing the play. The play being Cyrano if you happened to be unaware. The nose (Or is that a bus parked on his face?) being a giveaway. Beverly’s hair was great, yes. Honestly, Data, much though as you say, he does know about poker faces, he is me in that scene as I abhor bad theatre. Though this was nice. I feel the talk that Deanna had with Barclay and Barclay’s words about playing someone else. Ah, the stage, the stage does provide one of the closest feelings of... peace. And we agree on the love that Beverly is entrenched in the arts with quite the passion. Makes me very happy to see it. The drama begins with the damage done to the Argus Array, a rather apropos name. Barclay’s increased intelligence is displayed in a steady pace, and we both assessed it in similar manners. Knew that you were going to have problems when Barclay started stepping on Geordi’s toes as you described. The one moment when he abruptly spoke up, I would have deadpanned, “You wish to add something to our discussion, Lieutenant Barclay?” We concur with how the crew looks at the situation. They have the sensible conversations about what to do. That yeah, the increased intelligence would have benefits, yet there is need for caution. Gave Barclay an acting boost, which was nice to see. I get it how you were on guard with the worry of how Barclay with his newfound confidence would present itself with his dealing with women. If he had just walked up and kissed Beverly, I’d imagine Picard would have burst through the wall like the Kool-aid man at that part. We liked Deanna setting the professional boundary. We both got a huge laugh over Riker’s lightning-fast head turn when Deanna mentions Barclay putting the moves on her. Your own laugh was wonderful. Dread starts to pick up when Barclay gets more and more lost in his newfound intelligence. The situation becomes seriously creepy when Barclay has his “I’m sorry, Jean-Luc, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” moment. Then it gets really ominous and scary as shit when Barclay tries to reassure Geordi by all but outright saying, “Now, why don’t you just take it easy, Geordi. And please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater and help yourself to whatever you’d like.” The image of Barclay in that chair makes an impression. I did remember that visual of Barclay in the chair with the lights. For some reason, I had remembered Wesley being involved in this one, and he’s not in this one. I misremembered, it seems. And they don’t want to just pull the plug. A fairly baseline statement on Picard that he doesn’t want to kill any member of his crew. I argue he doesn’t want to kill anyone that he doesn’t have to. Gets really trippy when they go so fast that they nearly go to plaid. It got “wonky” I believe was the word you used. The reveal of the head was a great reaction moment. The question of how invasive this was, fair question. Same here on not being sure how you would have any sort of vetting process. I hear what you’re saying about the whole shebang feeling quite invasive. Knowing how you are with consent, it is a bit iffy here. It all works out well in this instance, all the same, ethically, tis a bit shaky. All goes back to normal. Deanna takes Barclay up on the previous request. She went for the walk. ...Good for her? You read it as a “No hard feelings” gesture, and a means of encouragement, so I guess it’s sweet. All in all, a great episode. Returning to a previous topic: how you had the question of was there a Classic Who story on your birthday, and how I was curious about that with Next Gen. There ends up being no episode on the day itself, but this episode ends up being the closest to it. As mentioned, I made the effort to be born at or around the twenty-first of February even though I wasn’t due until the latter part of April. Evidently, I was in that much of a hurry to experience winter in Illinois. They kept me in, past a point Mom was on bedrest, and was given medicine to keep me from making another go at it until the due date. So, this episode was that week, Monday. Tuesday comes by. Wednesday. Either that day, or Thursday, Mom either forgot a dose of the medicine, or just didn’t take enough, or so I’m told. That Thursday, I made another go at it, and it was determined that there was no stopping me this time. And sure enough, I come into the world, very early that Friday morning, fifth of April 1991. So, with this episode being that Monday on the first, this is the last Star Trek episode before I was born. One hell of an episode it turned out to be, and one that has now been reacted to so exceptionally well, Jess. Thanks for the superb reaction.

Geordie Joe

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, sir!” Barclay turning into HAL 9000. Nice homage to Space Odyssey from the writers. Nice to see Dwight Schultz reprising his role as Reg Barclay. He's one of the best recurring characters in Star Trek, in my opinion. Barclay episodes are always fun, as they tend to be both outlandish and relatable and generally uplifting. It's also nice to take a break from the more serious and emotional stories. I agree with your thoughts on the episode's ending. The resolution to the story feels very rushed. I wonder how the Klingons and Romulans would react to being hijacked by the Cytherians.

Thomas Corp
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Sort of wish that they’d have recreated the lip-reading scene as that would have been great. The line is a good homage. The Barclay episodes are surely memorable. This one does stand out in a good way. The plots do have that relatability factor, yeah. Not the first time Star Trek has the rushed ending. The idea of the Klingons and the Romulans being swept up in this plot is an amusing mental image.

Josef Schiltz

Imagining, with some wry amusement, how an encounter of the Cytherians with The Doctor might go, dependent upon each incarnation, after dragging the TARDIS 30,000 light years off course.

Thomas Corp
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I could see Twelve being very cross about the situation. Seven would likely be rather irate about it as well.