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Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x2 "Where Silence Has Lease" - Full Watch-along (Patreon)

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2026-02-06 19:00:04
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2026-10

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x2 "Where Silence Has Lease" - Full Watch-along

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Bret Kay

I've always enjoyed this one, looking forward to seeing your reaction!

Jim Jones

That was a fun episode. Your acting ensign question does not lead to any spoilers. They basically adhere to naval tradition, so his rank on paper is officially an acting ensign. But for the sake of brevity they refer to him as ensign. Picards bluff is a small behind the scenes fun fact. It caused some lengthy discussion in the writers room. The writers were still defining Picard’s limits. This was a time he chose annihilation over compliance. It helps begin to cement his leadership qualities.

Greg

I mostly agree with your take on this episode Bunny. It's a good episode, with some really cool ideas and a fun premise, and we learn more about the ship and the characters. However, something just feels.....missing. I'm not sure I can define it more then that, sadly. It's like a good episode that is just ONE thing away from becoming a great episode. Some non spoiler parts -- this either has already been seen/talked about so no harm in a reminder, or the show never explains it. Adding on the the acting ensign comment -- Wes may be called a Ensign as it's a easier title, the same way a Lt. Commander is addressed as a Commander even though they are not one. You have to go through Starfleet Academy and graduate to get the 'right' to wear the uniform. The sash that you saw Worf wearing has his family crest on it. It's a reminder to him of his heritage and where he comes from. Yes, the Enterprise IS able to go in reverse. Hell, they can even go to Warp in revenge! I'm guessing the reason the ship tuned around was so they would have an easier time with sensors and navigation. I agree just beaming someone onto the Yamato seemed like a very risky thing to do...a shuttlecraft would have been better. I'm sure your tired of hearing this, Bunny, and I am sorry (this is the last time I will talk about this), but to me, this is yet another of what I call 'foundation' episodes. They are decent or good episodes in their own right, but they are also laying down the base, brick by brick, of what was to come in later seasons, with characters and plot points and just general fun stuff. I'm seeing these Season 1 and 2 episodes now in a whole new light due to all of this.

Ian Grundy

He's still just an Acting Ensign. They just get lazy about saying the "Acting" part sometimes. Always liked this one a bit more than it probably deserves. I probably watched it a bit too young when it first aired, and found it really creepy. I also like that so much of the episode is about them on the bridge doing things with the ship. Launching probes, using thrusters, firing photon torpedoes... you know the fun stuff. Btw, you may be noticing a subtle recurring crew member - the curly haired transporter chief.

Bret Kay

To your question about Wesley: nothing's changed, he's still an Acting Ensign. They just don't say the "acting" part often. And they gave him a new uniform this season. It's not a standout episode, but I do enjoy coming back to it. It taught me a tiny bit about science and laboratory experiments when I was a kid, which I thought was cool. Glad you enjoyed it!

Summer

You need no info from me. Great watching Trek with you, all Trek

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Yellow Alert for a ship-sized space hole of nothingness at point blank face-to-face? Nah! Let's get closer and probe it more!

Desmond

I love how Wesley is replaced at conn by a random ensign just so he can get killed instead of him, lol.

William Terry

After they crushed that lady's cube in By Any Other Name, I think the lieutenant at the weapons station could tell his number had come up.😅

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

I don't have much to say about this episode. It's fine I guess, nothing terribly wrong with it. It just reminds me of a comment I made back on, I believe it was "The Empath": Apparantly approximately 1/2rd of the known galaxy in Star Trek is populated by hyper advanced aliens who have nothing better to do than conduct sadistic experiments on human. This is, to me, a fairly by-the-numbers god-like alien story. So, instead I'm gonna talk about the fact that in your recent livechat on YouTube (which I didn't catch live but listened to in the background once I noticed it) you mentioned that you were going to see Rush! I had no idea you were a Rush fan. My already high opinion of your taste and perspicacity has now reached epic proportions. I've seen them live twice. Once on the "Roll the Bones" tour and once when they played Summerfest after the "Counterparts" album. Phenomenal shows! It's weird for me to even think about hearing Rush without Neil, but if Geddy and Alex are still feeling it, I certainly don't begrudge them carrying on. Won't be the same but I'm sure it will be amazing nonetheless. If you've never seen them live I'm sure it will be a great experience for you! Have Fun! (Hope you don't mind this digression) Addendum: one thing I do love about this episode, “Where Silence Has Lease” is a damn cool title! I’m a sucker for those poetic titles like “is there Bo truth in beauty” and “For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky”. Though they do make for a lot of typing. 😁

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

The out-of-context opening is fun. The bridge switcheroo scene is creepy and fun. The scene trying to use the beacon for reference gives me the heebie jeebies. And I feel like we get a much better sense of the crew's personalities in this one. This is one of those eps that if you asked me having not seen it for a while I might give it a "meh" but then I really, really enjoy it once I sit down with it again.

뱀파이안젤

Gotta love new doctor posing the big question: "is ANY week a safe non-life-or-death time to be traveling aboard the USS Enterprise?" LOL

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

"Sure is a damned ugly nothin'." Low-key top tier line. Ok, I'll stop live tweeting the entire episode now.

Summer

So I watched some TOS and TNG as a child (1980’s early 90’s), for us it was more ‘oh Trek is on, lets watch it’, not severe fans but I did remember large portions of 40-60 TNG episodes and the Voyage home. In my early twenties my stepdad watched Enterprise so I watched it with him. Then I found Voyager a couple years later and fell in love, I got the DVDs and watched it several times before reconnecting with TNG also through DVDs, then a few years later DS9, so I had no one telling me how this universe worked, by the time I got back to TNG and then DS9 I might have accepted enough of the Trek universe that most things people wonder watching TOS and TNG the first time never occurred to me. There is a lot about the Trek universe I just agreed to accept when choosing to watch, but crucially, no one told me details, I watched through multiple times before people on line started telling me anything about behind the scenes, or any names of anything in the future, or how warp drive works, or what episode was good or bad, or anything else. If some of you didn’t have that, I am sorry. Lets give that to Bunny as much as we can. (There are things I knew about DS9 before I got there which is bittersweet).

Super Sunny Sunblade

Space Battleship Yamato is the Enterprise's "sister" ship?! 🙀

Bret Kay

This was always funny to me too. Wesley just happen to go on break at the right time lol. It's not from anywhere in the episode, but I've wondered if that ensign was another projection Nagilum created (like the ones of Troi & Data) to test their reaction so he didn't actually have to kill anyone.

William Terry

Oddly his uniform looks more like a West Point cadet than Annapolis. I suppose calling him ensign is OK given he's already been accepted to Starfleet Academy right? Did he have to move out of Beverly's senior officer quarters when she left for rehab, I mean to take over Starfleet Medical Academy?

Desmond

The way the Enterprise's scanners were completely useless in describing just what exactly this thing was, reminded me a lot of TOS. There were a lot of moments on that show like that too. "This phenomena is really mysterious! REALLY mysterious..." And I did like the switcheroo with "Data" and "Troi" with Picard at the end, and the way he figures out they're acting out of character, and are just facsimiles. Pretty forgettable episode overall though, IMO. Naugilum is less an actual character than a plot device our heroes must overcome. Would have liked to have learned a bit more about him and what really motivates him.

Mark Gosine

Yes, the episode is the 'humans being tested' trope, which is not unique in Star Trek or any other science fiction. What is unique was the approach. The storyline was twilight zone like. Still a banger episode. I enjoy it on a rewatch, just as much.

Mark Gosine

O'Brien. You can say it! Miles O'Brien! 😁

Carlos Stevens

Oh come now... Isn't all of Star Trek about the "Humans being tested" trope?

Mark Gosine

Yes that's what makes it great.

John DiGiantomasso

"Looks like I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue!"

Max

NOBODY can resist bearded Riker haha ;)

bunnytails

Ah yes! I’m SO excited for the Rush show! I own a cd copy of Roll the Bones and I love that album. I wish I could have been to that tour!

bunnytails

Yeah, that’s what I enjoyed most about it

bunnytails

Yes, I have noticed him! When did he first show up?

bunnytails

Ohh it CAN go in reverse. Thanks for clearing that up!

Greg

We saw him in the pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint" but he wasn't credited. He was also in one episode of the first season.

Comrade Wireless Caller

I remember watching this one as a teenager and I remember finding it in it's own way more than a little scary. Especially in the scene where Nagilum murders the bridge crewmen. Which was a truly terrifying death! I have honestly wondered at times since I first saw it over 30 years ago if there is any chance that perhaps Picard and the rest of the crew never actually really even left Nagilum and everything they had experienced since this episode was simply an illusion to help Nagilum learn more about death.