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Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x4 "The Outrageous Okona" - Full Watch-along (Patreon)

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2026-02-17 19:00:03
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2026-10

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x4 "The Outrageous Okona" - Full Watch-along

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Greg

I've always really liked this episode, as it's different then anything we've seen before. For a lot of long running shows, as much as I enjoy the serious episodes and what happens between plot lines and seasons, it's the one off and humorous and light hearted ones that also mean a lot to me and they are fun to sprinkle into a show for a change of pace now and then. This is a good one for those reasons. The guest acting in this one was REALLY strong also. As Bunny pointed out, this William Campbell is different then the William Campbell we saw in two episodes of TOS. They tried to help with the confusion by crediting him as Billy Campbell instead. But Billy is a good actor in his own right -- among his famous roles are roles on the TV shows Dynasty and Once and Again, and in movies such as The Rocketeer and Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've always enjoyed his work and he played the role of Okona very well here. Bunny compared him to Han Solo -- I couldn't find anything saying Solo was a SOURCE for Okona, but he's CLEARLY inspired by him, and I think is a very good description. Fun fact about Billy Campbell -- he was a candidate for the role of Commander William T. Riker, but executive producer Rick Berman has explained that the executives casting the series considered Campbell to be "too soft" and the role went to Jonathan Frakes instead. Also in a uncredited role as the Transporter Chief that Okona seduces is a young Terri Hatcher. Joe Piscopo played the comic, and I know him best from his time on SNL, and he did a number of movies as well also. Jerry Lewis had originally been tapped to play the role, but a conflict with a movie meant he couldn't make the recordings, so Joe took his place. I agree that the exchange that Okona and Worf had in the crew quarters was confusing but I think your right -- Worf would have loved to have done a fight with Okona as he didn't like him very much, but realized now was not the time and took him to the bridge instead. As for Okona making the rounds -- the way I see it is that humans are more advanced in many ways by the time of Star Trek, and that includes getting rid of the Purtian ideas about romances and sex that many American still have. Instead they can agree to one time romantic flings with someone without worrying about it. Birth control is highly advanced in this time period, and I'm sure that many people, besides being charmed by Okona, would see him as a breath of fresh air, someone 'new' to interact with. There's plenty of romances and relationships going on between the crew of the Enterprise with each other (and a lot more done in the Holodecks I'm sure!) but the chance to be with someone new doesn't come along every day. Finally I liked how Troi is starting to be used, as someone who can actually assist the Captain with making decisions and choices, and we see some of Picard's diplomatic skills at play here as he tries to resolve the situation he found himself in. The talk beteween Wesley and Okona in Engineering was good as well, as that helped Okona to make a decision on what to do.

bunnytails

I can see Billy appearing as too soft for the Riker role. He’s kind of like a teddy bear with swagger in this episode!

Jim Jones

I like this episode. TNG does a good job of having 2 concurrent plots that aren't related. Okona was definitely challenging Worf with his look of defiance.

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

Funny and kinda silly, maybe even a little soap opera-ish, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Not every ep needs to be some high stakes drama or action packed phaser duel. And as die hard Trek fans I hope we've all made our peace with the fact that we're gonna get a little silly sometimes lol. Not my fave or anything but a lot of fun.

Summer

A special treat

Squeesher

Teri Hatcher thought so too, after some persuasion :P

InfinitelyJesting

I'm gonna use that lean in line, "You are so beautiful you must come from a long noble lineage."

William Terry

A combination of Han Solo (bunny saw the similarity right away) and the "Puffy Shirt" episode from "Seinfeld", the said shirt later on display in the Smithsonian. Joe Piscopo and Whoopie Goldberg are veterans of standup comedy so it was nice to see them together.

Soma

Matthew Graves (Graviton)

Not a big fan of this one. A little too much mugging for the camera, IMO. And personally, I thought the guest actors waren't great. (with the notable exceptons of Whoopie who is always awesome on TNG, and Terri Hatcher who can do no wrong in my eyes). And if the 24th century considers Joe Piscapo one of the 20th century's greatest comics, well, so much for the idea of a utopian future. (I kid. Sort of) Those magazines look very cool though. I think Ive mention it before but in the golden age of sci-fi (the era of Asmiov and Clarke, among others) magazines were actually the primary outlet for sci-fi and fantasy. I, Robot is asctually a collection of stories originally published in mags, and even many of the great novels of the era were orginally published as serials in magazines. I had subscriptions to a few all the way up through the 80s, though the advent of the internet kinda usurped the role mags used to play. The majority of writers for TOS and many TNG writers cut their teeth in mags like these. And you got Fritz Leiber's name right on the first try (don't worry about how to pronounce Fafhrd. No one gets that right the first time :) )

Desmond

Yeah, Worf definitely wanted to fight Okona...that's what that scene was about. He admired his...gumption, lol. Another role Campbell is good in is the film The Rocketeer. A fun, early 90s action film with Nazis as the bad guys, starring Campbell and a very young Jennifer Connelly.

WastedPo

One of my issues with this episode is that all of the examples of "good jokes" that were presented to Data weren't funny at all. Meanwhile, when Data leaves the holodeck and does his impression of a stereotypical comic with a cigar, that would've been genuinely funny, seeing Data do that. But because the script called for it not to be funny, we all have to pretend that it's not.

Comrade Wireless Caller

My favorite parts of this episode were Worf's complaint about being buzzed by glob flies, Data's response to this, Worf's entirely overenthusiastic hunting down of Okona, and finally Worf again asking which ship Picard wants him to hail.

Summer

In case we want to surrender to them is one of the funniest things, and I actually never noticed the doctor wasn’t there for this one.

Jack

Always nice to see Billy Campbell. Of you haven't seen "The Rocketeer," it's well worth your time -- a wholesome, feel-good adventure story. Of course, this episode introduces future Desperate Housewife and Lois Lane actress Teri Hatcher. Always lovely to see her. I don't mind the A/B story structure, as long as the storylines are related or converge. When the B story is something frivolous, I'm less interested. Still, a perfectly serviceable episode.

Max

Oh dear... Get this "visiting" captain his ship back before he out-Rikers half the crew's bearded obsession! 🥲 Hah...

bunnytails

I wasn't a fan of the comedian's style either