Current Events > My Star Trek TNG watch thread (spoilers)

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I'm on A Matter of Honor

Riker deposed this dude so he can be the Captain lmao. I know his actions are more selfless than that really but it's really funny to me to read it as him indulging himself. I read him as the most egoistic star trek character

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I'm on Measure of a Man

That scene made me want to play Poker with the boys

Also wtf was that scene with the prosecutor. Picard tells her outright how much he despises her and she's just like "You're a sexy man Picard :)"

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Watch Gundam instead lol

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Doe posted...

Measure of a Man

Great episode. Ive only seen a few and thats one of them.

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Trivia: The Klingon captain Kargan is played by Christopher Collins aka Chris Latta, voice of Starscream and Cobra Commander.

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"Rights, rights, I'm sick to death of hearing about rights!"

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Ooooh somebody kill these two

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I forgot Tasha and Data were in bed holy shit

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This episode Contagion was a little frustrating that Picard opted to destroy such advanced technology

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Do they not make TV like this anymore

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they still make Star Trek

xue1 posted...

they still make Star Trek

No they don't

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I miss cheesy 80s-90s TV

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I got through a slew of S2 episodes and I think I'm pretty much caught up with the earlier must-watches. I'm on Sins of the Father now.

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hold up why they let Troi play poker. She can read bluffs surely.

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Can she tho
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This episode "Captain's Holiday" is hilarious

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I don't think they have ever portrayed a Ferengi positively

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Okay this premise of "Picard gets a vacation because he's really stressed out but a bunch of people fuck with him for 45 minutes" is not a fun one for me

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Doe posted...

I don't think they have ever portrayed a Ferengi positively

Gotta go to DS9 for that.
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After Captain's Holiday, the next episodes are Tin Man and Hollow Pursuits, both excellent episodes

Hollow Pursuits is stressing me out

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There are some really nice episodes to cap off season 3. With the exception of Mnage Trois, everything from Tin Man onward is pretty high quality, and Best of Both Worlds is one of the defining episodes of Trek.

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"Except Program 9"

Damnit Barclay!

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"Everything in my collection is unique. One of a kind. And original."

Alright Data, tell him about Lore...


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Data both tried to kill the collector... and he lied to Riker :o

He is truly human...

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Wesley really grew into his role. I like him a lot now.

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There's no social media in Star Trek

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Doe posted...

Data both tried to kill the collector... and he lied to Riker :o

He is truly human...

I don't think he actually lied. If I recall, his exact words were "Perhaps something happened during the transport," which is one of those kinds of deliberately ambiguous statements that's constructed so it's technically true no matter what.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I don't think he actually lied. If I recall, his exact words were "Perhaps something happened during the transport," which is one of those kinds of deliberately ambiguous statements that's constructed so it's technically true no matter what.

Checking the script again, Riker asserted that the weapon had discharged, so Data wasn't actually obligated to give any answer; it was not a question. But he did deliberately omit the truth by offering an explanation that he knew to be false. If not meeting quite the burden of a lie, I think it is coming very close. Either way, a very eyebrow raising character development moment.

In the beginning of Menage a Troi, Riker checkmates a Ferengi and Wesley declares he perfectly played "A Queen's Gambit finishing with the Aldebran Exchange." Interesting that the terminology of Queen's Gambit still exists in 3D-chess, I'm curious how much elaboration of that game's ruleset there has actually been.

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..........why did he beam Riker and Troi in addition to the mom?

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People can hate on this episode all they want but Picard having to launch into Shakespeare soliloquy to bear to complement Troi's mom is a great little Picard moment.

And skipping this episode would've made me miss Wesley's promotion to full ensign


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Most fans of Star Trek never liked Wesley. Even the actor who played Wesley keeps saying that he never wants to play Wesley again

Wesley's pretty good in S3 as a companion to Leforge and he got that terrific scene in The Bonding when he described how long he hated Picard

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Cute that Riker can't bring himself to leave the Enterprise. He had so much captain ambition before

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"The Borg has neither Honor nor Courage. THAT is our greatest advantage." Uh okay Worf

Can someone clarify for me, I was under the impression Worf was raised in the human world, did I get that totally wrong?

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Doe posted...

Can someone clarify for me, I was under the impression Worf was raised in the human world, did I get that totally wrong?

After the Romulan attack at Khitomer, Worf was rescued by Star Fleet and placed with human foster parents, yes.

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So did his upbringing involve keeping him in touch with Klingon culture? Are all Klingons just inevitably like how Worf acts regardless of upbringing? I was thinking about this because in the Serak episode they mentioned that Vulcans have the same emotional range as humans but they are taught and reinforced at a societal level to repress them. So applying the same logic to Klingons I'd expect Worf to be........ milder. Does he put on the mannerisms of Klingons to defend against the doubts and belittling by other Klingons he encounters?

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He was cut off from Klingon culture since he grew up on Earth, and he compensates by trying to make himself the perfect Klingon now. It tends to put him at odds with other Klingons, since rarely do other Klingons hold themselves to the standards Worf holds himself to.
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Worf encounters Klingons that accuse him of losing his Klingon customs, and Worf has to defend that he is Klingon

Picard putting down the tea without drinking was a surprisingly solemn ending to that sequence.

Great episode pair. A balance between character moments and some compelling action.

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"Sleep. SLEEP, Data."

"He's exhausted..."

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Yeah, Worf is actually pretty interesting. His only example of how Klingons act were the stories and history his human parents taught him. Because of that, he's actually kind of the epitome of a Klingon warrior because he holds himself to a standard that normal Klingons don't.

It's like if a human's only exposure to human culture was through super sanitized fairy tales about knights, then found out humans were actually more like Game of Thrones.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

The premise was hated by series creator Gene Roddenberry, but Moore's script went into production nonetheless.

What the hell is this guy's problem. This was the best episode so far.

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Gene Roddenberry died during Season 5

Apparently Family was the least watched episode of Season 4 which is like......
bruh. Shouldve called it BoBW Part 3 or something maybe. Can't believe so many people missed such required viewing on its first run.


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Damnit Lore..........

I feel like this guy's slowing being built up to be a big bad

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Remember Me episode

You'd think Gainan would say something to back Dr Crusher up since she had extra-sensory perception of Yesterday's Enterprise being a false timeline.


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