Phasers Set To Stun: Top 10 Episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4

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Hello, and welcome back to Phasers
Set to Stun. In this ongoing series

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we focus on every quadrant of the expanding

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Lodon the course, as always,
is your core Trek crew. I'm Scott

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Hoffmann, I'm David Burns, and
I'm Wayne Whited. Welcome back everybody.

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And then this episode, we're continuing
with Starter Treks. A spoiler free curated

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episode list of the top ten episodes
you can watch is a great way to

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get into each series. After listening
to this episode. You can find that

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list in the description below. We're
going to talk again about Star Trek the

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Next Generation continue that season four,
And just to be clear, when we're

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talking about these top tens, we're
talking about the top ten episodes to watch

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an order of appearance, not necessarily
the order of preference, so it's all

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in chrinological order. And before we
go into season four too much, we

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should start by talking about the conclusion
of one of the best two part arcs

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in Star Trek history. Without getting
into spoilers for that conclusion, whichuld be

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very difficult our viewers technically haven't seen
it yet. Let's talk about our thoughts

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on that episode overall, Dave,
Well, obviously, the biggest one is

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Wolf three five to nine. You
know, we're going to come back to

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that quite a bit throughout the series. Even in the card we're going to

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hear about it and have some really
good dialogue about what happened at Wolf three

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five nine. But another thing that
I really loved about this episode, it's

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a very good conclusion, I should
say, to the two parter. It

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lives up to the cliffhangar that we
saw from season three. And well,

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one of the things I really like
about this was commanded Rectors a brilliant tactics

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that he shows in this, and
you know, it shows that he should

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be a captain. There's just no
doubt about that. That the man deserves

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his own ship, and he proves
it over and over, especially in this

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episode. But I'm glad he's still
here. With us. Oh yeah,

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this, Yes, we got to
have record. Yeah, I mean Shelby

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is brilliant and everything, but I
think it's a god said we had Riker

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at the helm. Ye, Wayne, what about you? For the most

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part, I think it succeeded.
Back when it first aired, I was

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I loved the episode, but I
was kind of disappointed that it wasn't a

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third part three parter. I felt
that it was a little rushed. But

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now, you know, looking back
in hindsight, you know, with that

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first contact that gets Star Trek Picard
season three, I think it's perfect.

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Right now, I've changed my opinion. I love it. There's so many

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great scenes in it. I love
the stakes that the episode brought up for

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Riker, for Picard. It's it's
the perfect Star Trek conclusion. Yeah,

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it's in the stakes that you bring
up to it's the stakes for Starfleet.

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I mean, what happens, and
it's just a lot of devastation that they

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have not seen a long time.
Yeah, that scene with the aftermath math

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of well three five nine, that's
really devastating and it had such a huge

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impact back there in nineteen ninety when
we were watching it. Sure did it

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and keep that in mind when we
start to talk about Deep Space nine,

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because literally the first scene of the
first episode gets into Captain Benjamin Cisco in

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that battle. Yeah, so it's
it's very interesting how that all connects and

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comes back later. So obviously,
first time viewers please watch that before getting

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into anything else this season. We're
going to talk a lot about things that

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would be considered spoilers if you haven't
seen part two. So if you've been

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able to wait this long, you've
got a lot of willpower. Congratulations,

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but pause here if you need to, and then come back for more.

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Speaking of this almost being a three
parter, the first episode that we picked

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to talk about is in some ways
considered to be almost kind of a part

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three of this. To me,
it feels like an epilogue for the best

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of both worlds. Yeah, and
it works that way. I like this

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episode. Yeah, it kind of
Like I said, I was disappointed it

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was not a three parter, but
this kind of fills in that gap.

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It does exactly so. That first
episode is called Family. As the Enterprise

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crew recovers from the previous episode,
we got some personal perspective on four key

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members of our crew, Wharfs,
Optive, parents visit the ship for the

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first time since his discommendation. Beverly
Crusher has to revisit the past as she

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gives Wesley a message from his father, Jack, who left behind a recording

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for Wesley to watch when he was
old enough. We also get a visit

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with Picard's family on Earth, his
nephew, his brother, and his sister

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in law at the the card Vineyard. He thinks about all that he's been

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through and contemplates his future with Starfleet. Both Wharf and Picard and Beverly and

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Wesley have so many powerful moments in
this episode in very different ways, and

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each one is important for the series
and their character arcs overall. Written by

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Ronald D. Moore and Suzanne Lambdon, directed again by lesland Now, who

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notes that this is his favorite episode
of Next Generation. It could apparently also

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be known as Data's Day Off because
it's the only episode that doesn't have Data

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appear, and when you hear Brent
Spiner talk about his days of making the

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show, it's a well earned rest
for any one of them. But I

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know this is one that correct me
if I'm wrong. But this could be

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called one of the Bottle episodes.
We've been talking about and we'll talk about

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a few this season, and what
that means is that the production is a

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little less extensive and therefore a little
less expensive to create. There's a lot

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of big special effects. It's very
self contained. Wayne, what are your

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thoughts about this episode? I love
this episode. I loved it when it

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first aired. I think it's a
great epilogue to Best of Both Worlds,

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a great pause in this series.
I mean, it was such an emotional,

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such a huge impact Best of Both
Worlds. We needed this episode to

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take a breather, you know,
I know that. You know behind the

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scenes, Geene Roddenberry hated this episode. He did not want them to make

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it, and they fought. Both
the producers fought to get it and it

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changed their way they worked with with
Roddenberry after that, and I'm glad that

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they succeeded because they gave us an
incredibly emotional episode, especially with the card.

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Plus we get to see Worfe's parents
and that's fantastic. Yeah, yeah,

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they were. They had such great
performances in this one. I love

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his parents so much. I do
too, But they're the parents that everybody

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wants, you know, they they
They're lovable, they're caring. They won't

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be there for you, but they
will embarrass you to you at the same

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time, even though they don't really
mean to do that, because they care

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about you so much. They were
a perfect couple of perfect perfect parents were

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worf. I think one of the
lines in it absolutely loved was when he

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was waiting for the beam on board
and he was basically, you know,

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I wish it would I wish it
would start to get end sooner. I

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left so hard about that. But
no, this is a really good character

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driven episode. And just as Wayne
said, you know, it's not only

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for the characters to catch their breath
for Starflee to catch their breath for too.

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As an audience. Because of what
we just went through with the best

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of both worlds, we really needed
this, but the character did too,

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and the card we really we really
get to see him in a way we've

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not really seen him before, you
know, in an environment that we've not

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seen before, where he's not the
captain, you know, and he's just

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a brother to somebody, he's just
an uncle to somebody, you know.

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And I love the dialogue that we
got there with all of them, and

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so much comes into play, and
I can't say anything because as the first

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motion picture of Star Trek, Generations
deals a little bit with this episode,

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Yeah, it does, and you
know, so when we move on to

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that, you know, we'll obviously
come back to this episode a little bit

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when we talk about Generations. But
yeah, I love this one. I

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think everybody knocked it out of the
park in their performances, and we got

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to know them more than we have, so I loved it. Yeah,

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there's a very poignant moment with the
car and his brother toward the end.

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I can't say what happens, but
it's a very interesting application of I guess

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you could call it makeup in that
scene. Given what we remember about the

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best of both worlds. It also
seems like, you know, Picard is

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faced with some personal choices about you
know, it's almost like a sliding doors

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kind of thing. You know,
what if I had gone this way instead

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of that way, which almost comes
up again in a future episode called The

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Tempest, where Picard kind of comes
face to face with some of those choices.

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So I wonder thinking about those episodes
together other kind of shape things.

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I know, Jeremy Camp was awesome. Whatever Picard, he whoever casted him,

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casted that perfectly because you needed that
that rough brother who you know pushes

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around Picard, which we've not really
seen, you know, you know,

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push it around John Luke, but
you know we see that, and you

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even see Jean Luke kind of like, you know, I don't want to

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see it, afraid of his older
brother. But there's just that that tension,

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that pressure there between the two of
them, you know, which comes

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off really well on screen. But
I also love the relationship between Jean Luke

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Piccard and his nephew. I loved
how each other called uncle and nephew.

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You know, he'd call him uncle
and the nephew would call him nephew.

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I love a lot of fun so
much it was. It was so much

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fun. And one thing I want
to point out here, I don't know

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if you guys know this or not, but the kid that plays Renee,

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he actually plays Captain Piccard in a
future episode, which I'm sure we're going

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to talk about the same actor,
yep, yeah, yeah, And there

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we got a really unique look at
the enterprise to that shot with it in

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the dry dock. I love that
shot. Now, I'm not sure if

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you guys remember this, But way
back in nineteen ninety when this episode was

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airing, like the day or two
before that, there was a show on

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ABC called Primetime Live that aired a
behind the scenes look at the making of

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this episode. Was hosted by Deforce
Kelly, and they showed how that shot

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was made. They showed, well, they showed a lot of stuff about

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the making of the episode, but
the shot of the Earth behind the Enterprise

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is an actual satellite shot of the
Earth. That's a real shot of the

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Earth. Yeah. That always stuck
in my mind because I mean, I

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was big into Star Trek then I
wanted to learn everything about it, and

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when that aired, I had to
watch it. All Right. Well,

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Dave, I'm jealous to pass the
torch to you for this next episode.

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Why didn't you tell us about a
number two pick? Yeah? Number two

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pick is called Brothers, directed by
Rob Bowman and written by Rick Berman.

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A practical joke on the Enterprise renders
one of its children on board in serious

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danger, forcing the ship to star
Base four one six to help in his

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recovery. However, the ship is
hijacked by none other than one of its

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own data. The crew scrambles to
try and figure out how to stop him

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and what he is up to while
a young boy is slowly dying. It

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isn't long until Data transports himself down
to a planet or to his surprise,

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discovers more than what he could possibly
imagine, you know. So, Brent

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Spiner, we've talked about him so
many freaking times on the performances that he

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brings to the table. He plays
three parts in this and I don't want

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to say any more than that because
I don't want to ruin it for anybody.

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Well done, But he does such
an incredible job guys, And we

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said it before, but man,
he can just turn that switch off and

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on, off and on like it
is nothing. I mean, to him,

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it might have been a bit different
story. You know. He's probably

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you know, nervous on how he
was able to switch up, you know,

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but man, he does it so
freaking well, just so impressive on

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his performance that he brings in this
again, Yeah, I can't speak enough

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about this episode just because of that
and what we get to see more of.

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And I know this is where the
was it the emotional chip is that

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what it's called. That's where this
gets it start. And obviously we'll have

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a lot more to deal with that
later on down the road, especially in

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generations. Yes, especially generations again, right, this is this is one

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of my go to episodes. I
don't know why, but whenever I I've

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been out of Next Gen for a
while and I feel the need to dip

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back in, this is one that
I always pull off the shelf. It

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is amazing. Davey did a great
job of tiptoeing around spoiler territory. So

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hard to do it. It's almost
like we need a recap to say,

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like, Okay, here's all the
stuff that we can geek at about.

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But the initial sequence when he's hijacking
the enterprise is so fast and so brilliant,

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like every step that he takes to
go through that, And it's just

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interesting when I watch it thinking about
how I've heard that Brent Spiner does a

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great Patrick Stewart impression, and when
he has to emulate his voice for that,

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I'm like, did they ad r
that or did they just say Red,

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go ahead and do your pack.
There's so much development for data here,

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there's so much I think, element
for Brnce Spiner in his range,

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and it's such an important episode and
there's a lot of tension that builds there

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in just the right time. Yeah, knowing what, it's hard to say

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anything else, So I'll just stop
Wayne, what about you? No,

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you know, I love the twist
ending. But you know, it's probably

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good that Brince Speiner had that episode
off last the week before because all this

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stuff he has to do in this
episode. To imagine the behind the scenes

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work that had to go into just
putting this episode together, I can't even

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get my mind around it. I
agree with you, Scott, I I

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love this episode. This is this
is one of the best of the season

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because in my opinion, because of
Brnce Speiner and his performance, it's just

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it's absolutely phenomenal. Shows the range
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there's a lot going with this episode. But you know, as you

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mentioned, David, this episode was
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actually caused a little bit of behind
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Ron Jones, I'm sorry. He
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this new synthesizer, and when they
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failed and the entire musical session was
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these episodes so close to the air
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worked on a week before it aired, and this was devastating, and he

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music, all out of his pocket. He had to pay for the entire

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thing out of his pocket. And
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and Berman was looking for some way
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the worst episode that he could have
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This will come to effect. But
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I love the music this. I
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hear a lot about that over the
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the behind the scenes stuff going on
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a little bit what you were mentioned
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this I know him and Rob Bowman
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of our Bourbs fans out there.
Oh hey, Johnson, I'm looking at

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you. Ricky. Butler says you
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recognize any familiar faces. Yeah,
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Wayne, take us to number three. Number three is remember Me.

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It was written by Les Sheldon and
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October twenty second of nineteen ninety The
Enterprise docs at starbas one thirty three,

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where Doctor Crusher welcomes her longtime friend
doctor Dalen Quais on board, but shortly

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after, doctor Quas vanishes without a
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that is, except for doctor Crusher. And when further members of the

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Enterprise crew began vanishing without a trace
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it may have something to do with
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You know this episode, it's one
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Basically because I like Gates McFadden.
I was so happy that she had

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returned, and she gets the majority
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also got that beautiful visual effect at
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three and it was used during the
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of the star bas the Enterprise enter
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episode was actually originally written as part
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to be three ongoing stories and this
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with that much going on, so
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own episode sense. But again,
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of the bottle episodes of the season. If you really look at it,

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you can tell. I mean,
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very little guest stars, and it
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Enterprise. It's a great feature for
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it solo for about forty percent.
Phenomenal episode. Somebody needs to tell Wesley

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he needs to stop doing things because
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they got to get rid of him
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handy in the previous episode. Yeah, a little bit of a cheat,

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but yeah yeah. And also you
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McFadden, she performed all her stunts
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there's a big one in here.
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finishing her stunts she was pregnant.
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I love that you love this episode
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consistently pull off the shelf. This
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watched twice because once you discover it
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great twilight zone aspect of it.
It does a lot of doubt, a

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lot of what actually is happening that
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three quarters of the way through the
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second time and you pick up on
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happening, slows you as it goes
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unravel, and it's just so satisfying. I think, God bless Gates.

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performance. She is taken to the
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safe to say without spoiling too much. Well, it also shows you her

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intelligence and her brilliance on how she
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West gets it from too, you
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her son and why she is his
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and hand on their intelligence. And
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there, but still it's a really
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might give away that's it's, you
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the season obviously, but I thought
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too, is Eric is Menuk I
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who plays the Traveler. He originally
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don't know if you guys knew that
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by Prince Spiner. I can see
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Spiner deserved the part. Oh gosh, yeah, without question. Yeah,

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quickly and to adapt so much.
I'm sure that it's not you know,

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it's nothing that Eric could not have
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positioned for what he got. Definitely, yep. Absolutely, Well, before

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we get into number four, let's
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back, we'll keep going through the
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Let's talk about number four, and
I'll take us into this episode called Reunion.

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In this one, Ambassador Klar returns
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escalate on the Klingon home world of
Chronos. She's returning because Kempek, the

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leader the High Council, is dying, and Kempec wants Picard to find out

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who's responsible while helping to mediate succession
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Doros or Gowrom. On this mission, Wharf looks forward to seeing the woman

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he loves, but he doesn't know
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more ways than he can ever imagine. Written by Thomas Perry and Joe Perry,

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directed by the One and Only Jonathan
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things to tiptoe around here, and
it's stuff that happens in like the first

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what fifteen minutes, a lot of
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I was surprised to learn this is
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m h. Yeah, it's very
interesting, a very cool weapon if you

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if you understand that kind of arch
weapon. And Wayne, is this the

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first appearance of the Vorcha classic Cleon
Cruiser. Yes, it is the first

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new Klingon ship that they built.
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that were built this year. The
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the other two. But yeah,
this episode really expanded a lot on the

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Klingons and Gludender ships. Yeah,
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heavily, as we're gonna see as
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oh my god, done so well. I've got to call out standout performances.

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Susie Plaxon as Klar. Yeah,
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Yep. Robert O'Reilly as go oh
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soul. Yes, I'm like God, and he's an important character. You'll

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see him a lot more through this
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Space nine. Absolutely, yes,
Yes, great performances there, Dave,

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whatever, what are the thoughts you
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much build up we're starting to see
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last season, just starting a hint
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with Klingons, and now we're getting
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You're right, Scott, there's so
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We can't say too much of what
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much that goes on in this one
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few episodes that we're going to see
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But yeah, kudos to Susie Plaxon
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time in this role. I thought
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In her chemistry with Michael Dorn as
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between the two of them, and
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what the what they showed us.
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to have the relationship between them,
with her being half human and him being

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raised by humans for so much of
his life yep. And this being such

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a big episode for a wharf and
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have her perspective specific is is vital
to WARF's development. Wait, don't what

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about you. This is just such
an important episode. You can't. You

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can't skip it. Whether whether you
love the Klingons or you hate them,

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you have to watch this episode.
It's just too important to the whole Star

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Trek lore. This This was the
first episode that was written by Brown and

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Braga, who I always thought was
one of the best of the Star Trek

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writers. He wrote so much of
Star Trek coming up in the future,

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like one hundred different episodes, and
he wrote jud Generations. He wrote First

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Contact, and he started off with
a bang. I mean, this is

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just I can't mention too much about
this episode. There's so much going on

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that we have to get around.
You can't believe you. Just let me

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just say this. Just watch it. Just go and watch it, Okay,

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know, go watch it. Dave
take us to number five, all

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right, final mission, directed by
a corel written by Casey Arnold Enz and

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Jerry Taylor. The time has come
for Wesley Crusher to leave the Enterprise and

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head for Starfleet Academy, but before
he does, he joins Captain Picard on

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one last mission, a mission that
puts them in serious danger when they are

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forced to land on a nearby moon, where they find themselves in a dire

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situation. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is
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a planet from a ship that had
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That are very survival you know,
as much slack as or a munch flack.

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I should say that Wesley Crusher has
gotten over the years. He was

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fantastic in this episode. Yes,
I loved his relationship between him and Picard

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here, and some of the dialogue
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towards the end of this episode really
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it made me appreciate Okay, there
was probably some episodes that I didn't like

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his character, But when we get
to this episode and another episode we're going

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to talk about next season, I
guarantee we're gonna be talking about it as

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some of his finest moments and made
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And I was glad that he was
there, and it was sadden me,

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you know, to see that he
was moving on. But he needed to,

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you know, moving on to Starfleet
Academy. You know, it was

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the proper movement. And I believe
Will Wheaton wanted to go on to be

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in movies, and I think they
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I think you're right, yeah,
which you know I hated to see

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at this moment, because he was
finally coming into his own, you know,

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on the ship. He was becoming
a good character with the people around

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him and they were leaning on him
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this episode just between the Carton and
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too, because you know, Will
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years, and he's he really is
a good actor. Oh yeah, it

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was so much that it wasn't his
acting that was the problem. It was

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just that a lot of the writers
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and or or they just didn't write
Wesley properly. And here this episode is

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a great example of him being written
properly, written with a lot to do,

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with a great emotional impact. I'm
glad that he got one final great

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episode for his last regular episode.
It's seen as soon as he put on

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that Starfleet uniform, he became a
very important character, and they started writing

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him better lines and writing him better
stories that we appreciated. Yeah, I

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feel like this is obviously a very
important episode for Wesley. I feel like

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behind the scenes, as I'm thinking
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has with Captain Picard that's so poignant, it almost feels like Patrick Stewart speaking

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directly to Will. It is knowing
how much there was kind of that familial

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relationship that I think built behind the
scenes. Knowing how much he had grown

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up on the set and he's being
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It had to be very, very
difficult to film. And I've got to

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give credit to Will Whedon knowing what
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Knowing what he had gone through and
and how much he loved the Star Trek

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crew and the actors on the set, the crew. It's it's very interesting

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how much of a dynamic we see
here with Wesley kind of growing up and

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taking a stand. There's this Captain
Durgo who is as a shuttle shuttlecraft captain

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the companies of them on this trip, and just kind of the almost the

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antip card like seeing a lot of
the qualities there that that Picard doesn't bring

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as a captain, and Wesley's standing
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and the decisions that he makes.
Got to applaud Will Whedon for this episode.

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Very important his arc. So absolutely
don't mess this one. The dialogue

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between Wesley and Picard. You know
we've mentioned before, but did I know

406
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:32.920
that's the first time that boothb is
mentioned, and obviously you know it's going

407
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:37.039
to come you know, into play
in the next season. But the one

408
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:40.720
line that I just it just gave
me chills and almost teared me up is

409
00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:41.960
when Picard looked at him, he
goes, oh, I envy you,

410
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:48.039
Wesley, Crusher, You're just the
beginning of the adventure. I love that

411
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.160
line so much and such an impact
it has between those two characters, because

412
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.440
because remember because they get this child
off my bridge, you know, when

413
00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.000
we saw in season one, and
how much their relationship has grown and just

414
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:07.920
comes to this point and so expertly
written, Like the even the title when

415
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.440
you first see it, like we've
lost some big characters at this point,

416
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:18.200
right, and the cliffhanger that we
just recovered from it kind of feels like

417
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.400
nobody's really safe. So when it's
titled final Mission, you're kind of like,

418
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.319
oh, damn, yeah, what's
going to happen here? There's a

419
00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.920
line after that, Dave and I
totally agree that's that's such a great performance

420
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:38.440
when Wesley is walking away at one
point and Picard says to him, I've

421
00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:44.400
always been so proud of you.
That's such an important moment for the two

422
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:49.880
of them. Just too many good
things to say with us. And I

423
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:55.119
also want to mention because this season
had some great guest stars all throughout the

424
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.240
year, but I want to bring
up this episode's main guest star, and

425
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:04.720
that's Nick Tate. He did a
really good performance in this episode. He

426
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.759
actually was one of the stars of
another great sci fi series that I love,

427
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.519
Space nineteen ninety nine. You played
it Alan Carter during its two seasons,

428
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.880
so it is meat saying him and
I remember it was a big deal

429
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.839
too. I mean, the TV
Guide made a big deal about him appearing

430
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.759
on the show, but you know
he'll he'll appear again. I think he

431
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:24.279
comes on and I think he was
on Deep Space nine for episode or so

432
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:29.359
if I remember right. But I
had to point him out because he's phenomenal

433
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:32.559
in the episode. Absolutely, all
right, Wayne, take us to number

434
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:38.680
six, all right. The sixth
episode is Clues, written by Bruce d

435
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:45.160
Arthurs and Joe Minelski and directed by
Les Landau. It aired on February eleventh,

436
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.720
nineteen ninety one. When the Enterprise
is investigating a planet in the Nagambi

437
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:54.680
Nebula, the crew are knocked unconscious
by a mysterious wormhole. According to Data,

438
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.640
the crew were only unconscious for a
mere thirty seconds, but events are

439
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:02.039
discuss that forced the crew to believe
that Data may be lying to them,

440
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.440
and they were unconscious for far longer
than he has led them to believe.

441
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.960
You would give me this episode because
I have to go on record say,

442
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.480
and this is not one of my
favorites this season. I just I find

443
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:21.000
well, I this is time.
This was this was in nineteen ninety one,

444
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.519
and there was another show that I
had just started watching at the time,

445
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:29.960
and that was a Red Dwarf.
This episode is so similar. It's

446
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:31.759
nothing. I think that I've watched
him like in the same month that I

447
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:36.400
recognized it right way. There's there's
an episode in that that series is very,

448
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:42.000
very similar to this, where they
wake up without any memory and then

449
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.160
they discover clues to say they they'd
lost their memory longer than what they believed

450
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:51.880
and only Holly knows what happened to
them. It was during the second season

451
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.440
of the show. Thanks for the
memory I had. I had to pull

452
00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.400
it on my head there, and
I just I wasn't that impressed. It's

453
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.759
it's not a bad episode. There
are no bad well let me rephrase that,

454
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.759
there's only one bad episode this season, and I'll get into that.

455
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.000
But this isn't a bad episode.
It's an interesting episode. It's just not

456
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.079
one of my favorites. It's like
like last season, it's a in my

457
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.960
opinion, it's a mediocre episode in
the middle of all these great episodes.

458
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:22.679
And that's nothing against the writer this. The writer for this episode was brought

459
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:28.360
in through the open submission policy that
I mentioned earlier, but the whole thing

460
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:31.840
had to be like completely rewritten because
they had to write out the character Wesley

461
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.800
he was in it. And again
because for some reason, we're choosing them

462
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:40.880
all this episode. This is another
one of the Bottle episodes. You know,

463
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.719
this just pretty much just has the
main cast and no guest stars and

464
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:50.760
just the Enterprise as the sets.
I don't know, just this season seems

465
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:53.159
like all the Bottle shows are the
great episodes. Yeah it does. I

466
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.960
think I thought this is and I
know what you're talking about with the red

467
00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:00.000
dwarf thing, but I still like
the episode. I like how we have

468
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.840
a really good mystery going on and
it keeps you guessing of what's happening because

469
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:10.440
you know, Data is lying and
he's getting caught in those lies and does

470
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.800
an android lie? What? You
know, what is he doing? What

471
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.440
he's protecting is something? I'm wrong
with him? So many good scenes,

472
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:20.880
you know, between the card and
Data and in some of the other cast

473
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.400
members on what was going on,
and you know, I thought that led

474
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:29.760
to a brilliant ending of what had
happened and then starting it all over again.

475
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:30.599
I just thought that was pretty cool. Oh, and you're right,

476
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.280
the cast is great, fantastic,
It's this Patrick Stewart, Brin Speiner on

477
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.719
our wonderful in it and it's it's
does have a good mystery. Yeah,

478
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.840
yeah, I think this is one
of the episodes. It reminds me a

479
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:46.280
bit of Remember Me, because there's
that mystery that doesn't kind of unfold,

480
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.320
you know. It feels like there's
that kind of you know, two for

481
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:55.280
watching on this one where you you
really should go back and then see,

482
00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.519
like, you know, how does
data kind of dance around the the issue

483
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:07.760
that he has to manage. I
think it's it's very interesting how it almost

484
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:14.119
kind of builds on the most toys. Yeah, that last scene when he's

485
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:17.000
like, oh, maybe something happened
in transport and you're like, I never

486
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:21.679
thought about the connection. You're right? Is he kind of like selectively going

487
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:28.199
through that And that reminds me of
Spock's character in Undiscovered Country, which we'll

488
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.280
talk about at some point, where
he chooses like a way to characterize something

489
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:37.119
so it's not exactly a lie,
it's an exaggeration, right. The way

490
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:43.039
that he has to kind of dance
around that almost to the the point where

491
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:49.079
there's talk about disassembling it and you
know, stripping, stripping him down to

492
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.119
his buyers to find out what's going
on, and he staunchly believes in like,

493
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.880
yeah, I know, yeah,
I have to protect the truth.

494
00:36:55.039 --> 00:37:00.519
So that's what's happening. And Brent
Spiner again a great foremants in just being

495
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:07.599
so matter of fact as data and
just calm and cool approach to the to

496
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:15.039
the situation. It's very interesting.
Let me take us to number seven.

497
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.760
This one is called the Drumhead.
So this is one of the best courtroom

498
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.320
episodes I think in Next Generation,
and it's filled with intrigue. Yeah,

499
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:29.000
let me try to dance around this
without spoiling thing. A Klingon Exchange officer

500
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:32.840
is accused of selling secrets to the
Romulents, and a disaster and engineering temporarily

501
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.320
cripples the enterprise. To help investigate
these incidents that seem to be related,

502
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:44.599
a retired admiral and legal legend visits
the enterprise and begins to discover begins to

503
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:51.039
uncover more suspicious incidents. This episode
is a fascinating perspective on events that continue

504
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:55.239
to unfold in the series, but
the message behind this episode is extremely important

505
00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.000
for the Federation. Yeah. Oh, it's so hard to talk about this

506
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:08.159
episode without spoiling that's a good one. Admiral Satti. It does a phenomenal

507
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:16.280
job. Gene Simmons in that role, She's wonderful. Just it's it's like

508
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:22.079
a certain point you're kind of like, I love this performance, but oh

509
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:24.639
this person bothers you so much that
scene at the end that you know what

510
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:30.559
I'm talking about, not going to
say it wow performance man, Yes,

511
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.800
yes, another example. It ends
on a pin drop, right. Yeah,

512
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.639
she's another example of the great guest
stars this season brought in. It's

513
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:44.000
She's phenomenal. Yeah. Written by
Jerry Taylor and Ronald D. Moore,

514
00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:47.559
directed again by Jonathan Frakes. Well
done, sir, Yeah, I know

515
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:52.519
this is one of Michael Dorn's favorite
episodes. Ye. I can see why,

516
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:54.920
and you can see why. It's
a It's another one, Dave.

517
00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.760
I think you had mentioned, you
know, dialogue between Wharf and Picard,

518
00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:06.400
and this is one of the more
powerful ones and his struggles I think we've

519
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:10.960
talked in previous seasons. Oh my
god, that's the scene between the two

520
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.719
of them in the meeting room when
Picard was telling him you know where this

521
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:21.440
is going, right, you know
what is happening here? And you know

522
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:24.280
it's Man, I got chills now, just to get some of that dialogue

523
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:29.039
between the two of them, and
yeah, the card is right that what

524
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:34.320
was going on trial here and where
this was leading was going in some serious

525
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:38.679
dangerous territory and that is what Picard
is trying to warn here. And then

526
00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:42.159
when he gets you know, what
happens to him too, it's just like,

527
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:45.400
oh my god, this is exactly
what Picard was warning about and it

528
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.760
is happening. Yeah. Yeah,
it definitely sets a lot of in terms

529
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:53.239
of wharfsparc h. This helps to
kind of fuel that tension that we're going

530
00:39:53.320 --> 00:40:00.480
to continue to see yep into the
finale. Yeah, and so good,

531
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:06.519
just like emoting help. Right,
we're not even out of the season.

532
00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.679
And we talked about earlier about best
of both worlds too, about Wolf three

533
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.360
five nine is going to come up
again. It already comes up here in

534
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:16.719
this episode. Yeah, yep,
and this is this is again another bottle

535
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.639
show and this is this is far
better than what it deserves to be.

536
00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:24.719
I mean, bottle show shouldn't be
this good. And you know, funny

537
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.840
that the studio actually wanted them to
make a clip show. They wanted to

538
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:36.239
Oh god, studios. The producers
really had to convince Paramount that we don't

539
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:37.440
want to do that again, please, you know, we want to do

540
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.400
this. Thank god they did this. Look what we got from this incredible.

541
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.719
Ye. I think Jonathan Frakes even
mentioned that he took a couple he

542
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:52.159
stole some uh some stuff from courtroom
films, like including Judgment at Nuremberg and

543
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:57.199
the Cane Mutiny, which, funny
enough, William William Shatner was in I

544
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:59.280
don't know if anybody knows, but
he was in The Star Trek too.

545
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:04.159
But what Yeah, but yeah,
Jonathan Franks admits that he took some of

546
00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:07.159
that when you were directing this and
it works so well. Yeah, And

547
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:13.039
let me also bring this up to
here. This is the last episode that

548
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.159
was scored by Ron Jones for the
series. He was fired right after this

549
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:22.239
episode. You know, I explained
the problems earlier about what happened with brothers,

550
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.960
but you know, he was on
the producer's ship list, really is

551
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:30.119
what it was. You know,
he had problems. There was another episode

552
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:35.440
earlier called Night Terrors, where he
wrote a credible score for it with a

553
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.920
four full piece choir, sixteen piece
background choir, and Rick Berman heard it.

554
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.920
Hated it, absolutely hated the score
because it stood out you know,

555
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:50.559
he believed that music should be in
the background, should be wallpaper to the

556
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.599
episode, and having the choir there
made it stand out too much. So

557
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.639
they toned it down to the point
where you couldn't even hear the music.

558
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.960
They put sound effects over the choir, They took out a lot of it.

559
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.480
And then he went to the studio
and said, hey, look look

560
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:07.119
at all the money this guy spent
and wasted by hiring all this choir.

561
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.280
And that gave them the opportunity to
finally get rid of Ron Jones. And

562
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.800
that was a pity because he was
such an incredible composer for the series,

563
00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.280
you know, And if anybody wants
to hear his music and the music that

564
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:22.320
wasn't even used, it is out
there on CD for you to get.

565
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.360
And as much as I love music, Wayne, I know you appreciate as

566
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:28.800
much as I do too. It
just it breaks my heart to hear something

567
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.159
like that, It really does.
Yeah. Yeah. Another thing is I

568
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.320
love talking about cinematography in certain camera
shots in movies and episodes and stuff like

569
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.679
that. There's one shot in here
that I absolutely loved and it added to

570
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:45.280
the drama that was going on screen, and that's when the card's giving his

571
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:51.079
speech in the courtroom, and the
camera slowly tracks from right to left,

572
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.639
just moving very slowly as he's giving
that speech. I just thought that camera

573
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:00.800
shot just added so much attension to
his dialogue. I loved it well.

574
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.400
And the fact that that's kind of
designed to follow the arc of the kind

575
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:10.000
of the semi tribunal that's sitting around
him. Yep, brilliant was great.

576
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:15.440
Great, A lot more ahead of
us to talk about. It's only three

577
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:19.960
more episodes, but oof a lot
to him. So let's take a quick

578
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.239
break and come back with number eight. All right, we're back, Dave,

579
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:30.480
take us to number eight. I
would love to Half a Life Directed

580
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:35.639
by Les Landau, written by Peter
Allenfields and Ted Roberts. Walks on a

581
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.639
Troy, Deanna's mother is on board
the enterprise when doctor Timyson, a highly

582
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:44.599
celebrated researcher for his people, arise
with hopes trying to save his planet Kaylon

583
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.800
two's dying son. When the mission
fails, they must return to Klon two.

584
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:52.719
All the while, both doctor Timyson
and walks on a Troy have gone

585
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.400
closer to one another. However,
despite the new romance between the two,

586
00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:00.079
it seems that according to his planet's
a culture, he must complete the Resolution,

587
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.280
a ritual where he must kill himself, as everyone does when reaching the

588
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.039
age of sixty. The Prime Directive
prohibits Captain Picard from intervening, but when

589
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.519
doctor Timoson asked for asylum, it
puts Picard in the cruise of the Enterprise

590
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:19.000
in a dangerous situation. I've got
to say, this is a really good

591
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:23.360
episode. But when it opens up
with Picard trying to step out of the

592
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:29.599
turbo lift and he's like looking around
trying to you know, who he's looking

593
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:36.199
for. I laughed so hard at
that because she was obviously trying to avoid

594
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:43.480
walks on a Troy and sure enough
she catches, of course. But no,

595
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.280
I mean, there's so much to
like about this as Troy played Montjoe

596
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:52.320
Barrett is so good in this role
as Deanna's mother, so good in this

597
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.679
role. And I think this is
the first episode we've had that we're talking

598
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:57.719
about her, right, guys,
I don't think we've I know, we've

599
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.840
mentioned her character. We had her
in Haven, Heyvin, That's right,

600
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:05.039
we had her in Haven, Okay, But it's so funny like the one

601
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:07.800
other then that when she was on
the bridge and it clearly shouldn't have been

602
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:12.360
there. But when she was talking
to Wolf and she's like cuts up button

603
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:14.440
and he's like no, no,
no, stop, don't don't do that,

604
00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:17.599
and she causing Wolf. I love, I left feel hard there too.

605
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:23.679
It's Wolf not Wolf. Yeah,
wait, what about you guys?

606
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:29.840
Now this this is I can definite
safely say that this is my favorite episode

607
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.719
of this season. And it's because
everything you mentioned and more, I mean

608
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.599
wa, Stanna Troy is a great
character and the episode starts off so funny,

609
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.440
there's so many great funny moments,
but then it just like completely takes

610
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:45.280
one hundred and eighty degree turn for
her and for the episode becomes an incredibly

611
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.119
dramatic episode shows a totally different side
for her character. Let's hear play the

612
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.840
comedy and the serious drama, and
Majel Barrett is wonderful here, you know.

613
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:58.760
And plus it's it's got a strong
message about how we look at old

614
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.719
age and the end the life.
And she really, if you think about

615
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:07.599
it, she's the perfect character to
tell that story and you see it right

616
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:13.119
here with with her performance. Yep
and David augen Steers, Dr Jilson I

617
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.280
thought he did a wonderful job,
and I know a lot of people would

618
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.239
know him from Mash and many many
other things he's been in. But we

619
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:24.320
also get an introduction to Michelle Forbes, who plays Dara, the daughter of

620
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:31.400
doctor Timison, who will take on
another role we will all love and appreciate,

621
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.000
and that would be instant Row coming
I believe next season, is that

622
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.760
right? Yeah, that's right?
So yeah, yeah, Scott, what

623
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.239
about you man? Yeah? Oh
my god. The writing by Peter Allenfields

624
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.800
and Ted Roberts, the direction again
by Les Landau. When you talk about

625
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:53.519
this being a turn or kind of
a more of a rich deep dive into

626
00:46:53.639 --> 00:47:01.280
Lawasana's character, they couldn't have done
a better job with this one, right.

627
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:06.960
I think it was just absolutely perfect. It has one of the best

628
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:14.679
uses of dramatic tension. There's,
you know, usually in these episodes being

629
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.239
sci fi, there's an aspect of
it where a sun is exploding, or

630
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:22.519
there's some kind of planetary disaster or
something like that that they have to fix

631
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:30.199
with technology. This one's very much
debating the validity of this practice on this

632
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:39.800
planet. A great pasting choice with
David Ogden Stiers. It's so similar to

633
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:45.960
Winchester. The moments when he has
those kind of you know moments where he

634
00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:50.239
has the epiphany where he feels that
little bit of you know, reluctant,

635
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.519
hesitant joy where it's starting to get
to a good place, and then when

636
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:59.840
it all starts to come crashing down
and he kind of just occasionally opens up

637
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:04.199
the gates to the frustration, the
rage, whatever he's doing, but it's

638
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:12.400
always very proper, always very tempered. For him to be somebody who's connected

639
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:21.119
with law Woxana is brilliant because she's
very flambuoyant. She's very expressive all the

640
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:24.000
time. He's very tempered, and
she's never trying to change that. She

641
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:29.239
loves that about him and the relationship
that they have. The choice, especially

642
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.639
that she makes at the end.
Oh my gosh, it's a knockout by

643
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:38.039
Angel Barrett. Wow, I'm very
good. No, Just the decision they

644
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:44.000
both make and the performances that they
give together. They are absolutely the spotlight

645
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.840
and the standout for this one.
If you've ever been a fan of La

646
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:55.559
Waxana, it's definitely very important.
She has another another few episodes similar to

647
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:01.679
this one that comes to mind.
In Deep Space nine but wow, just

648
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:07.519
a great pair. Yeah. Her
chemistry with David Ognoon is just incredible.

649
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.599
There are so many good scenes between
the two of them here. But the

650
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.039
one scene that is my favorite in
this entire episode is when Dara is there

651
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:21.760
and Michelle Forbes is giving one hell
of a performance she is as his daughter,

652
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:22.760
and I can see why they're like, man, we got to bring

653
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:27.880
her back in some way. She
is incredible. Oh yeah, and she

654
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.920
is. And you know, there's
so much going on in this episode and

655
00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:37.559
such great two great guest stars that
for Gates McFadden is left with one scene

656
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:39.320
and one little line of dialogue right
at the end of the episode. So

657
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:45.400
yeah, but I also want to
mention too that again, the music of

658
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.480
this episode is phenomenal. Dennis McCarthy
did the score. He was nominated for

659
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:53.760
an Emmy Award for the score for
this episode. He lost to John Debney

660
00:49:54.199 --> 00:50:00.360
for that man's work for young writers
definitely worth while. Well, all right,

661
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.920
Wayne, take us to number nine
and that's the Minds I written by

662
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:12.159
Renee Etchivaria and Ken Schaeffer, directed
by David Livingston, aired on May twenty

663
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:21.639
seventh, nineteen ninety one, right
after we graduated Jordi Jeordie LaForge, is

664
00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:25.239
heading on a much needed vacation to
rise Au when his shuttle is intercepted and

665
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:30.119
captured by the Romulans, who hope
to use him to start a war between

666
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.880
the Federation and the Klingons. Jordy
is brainwashed and returned to the Enterprise,

667
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:42.159
unaware that he has been transformed into
the perfect Romulin assassin. It's very obvious

668
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:46.119
that this episode is inspired by the
film The Manitarian Candidates, but it works.

669
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:50.880
It's a great episode. I mean
Ron Livingston, who is one of

670
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:54.320
the producers of this series, he
used that film as an influence for this

671
00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:02.360
and kind of emulated some of his
the direct style that the original director used.

672
00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:07.599
And yeah, there's quite a surprise
at the end of this episode.

673
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.119
I can't really talk about it because
it's one of the biggest spoilers of the

674
00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:15.800
season and and has implications that continue
to the next year of the Social All

675
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.960
I can just say is just go, you know, watch this one and

676
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.679
see that for yourself, because it's
it's quite a shock. Yeah, I

677
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.079
mean, this clearly leads into the
episode that Scott's gonna be talking about our

678
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:30.079
tenth pick. Yes, and we've
been talking about all season and how all

679
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:32.119
of this is just building and building
and building until we get to this crescendo,

680
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:36.960
which is what we're going to get
in the finale. But I really

681
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.679
love this episode. But LeVar Burton, I thought that obviously a fantastic job

682
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:44.880
because in this and you know,
and playing that you know, you know,

683
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:46.079
is it him? Is it not
him? You know, those kind

684
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:50.639
of things, and the ending that
he has with you know, I believe

685
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:53.000
they were my memories. You know, I swear I did those things,

686
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:57.880
you know, but they were implanted. And just that that dialogue he had

687
00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:00.679
with Counselor Troy there at the end, I just thought was oh, well

688
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.840
done. But again going back to
talking about some cinematography work, the odd

689
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:08.679
shots of la Forge walking through the
halls of the ship heading towards you know,

690
00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.400
the shuttle bay where we know what
events are going to try to take

691
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:16.039
place where he's heading. I love
those shots because they were supposed to be

692
00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:21.239
awkward and weird to make you feel
uncomfortable, and I thought it great.

693
00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:28.800
It did. Yeah, you know, just taking a quick moment to acknowledge

694
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:35.039
how much Counselor Troy has her hands
full with this ship not just for this

695
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:39.960
episode, but so many times when
somebody has to endure a lot of psychological

696
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:47.280
trauma, like doubting reality type of
psychological trauma. Hands full, hands down,

697
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:52.400
especially the dialogue that you were starting
to mention there, Dave toward the

698
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:59.320
end of the episode. Such a
great performance by both Lavarburdon and we're in

699
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:06.920
a sertis h. I love the
use of the Jordi vision see its visor.

700
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:14.119
I think it's a much it's it's
a it's a great improvement versus what

701
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:16.039
we have seen before. I know
there's a previous episode we were able to

702
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:19.760
kind of like see through his eyes
and they had it on the view screen.

703
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.760
It was very difficult to see.
Just a very interesting use of purples

704
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:29.320
and greens there. The range of
emotion that LeVar has to go through that

705
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:34.440
he has to portray in this with
his conditioning, with his torture, and

706
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:40.840
then just to be so you know, fool and collected not knowing what's happening

707
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:49.920
to him on the enterprise is astounding. Just great use of visuals, great

708
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.440
use of psychological intrigue, and the
good tension building that we get towards the

709
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:58.199
end when data, you know,
finds out what he finds out, and

710
00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:01.679
you know you got to get racing
to that moment to get things to stop

711
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:05.760
and the back to back to what
Wayne said to the ending to this time.

712
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.760
Wow. Yeah, although in a
in a in the subsequent watching of

713
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:14.039
the viewing of this one, there
is part of me that was thinking,

714
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.360
all that speed, that data was
able to apply in Brothers, maybe he

715
00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:24.079
could have found a quicker way to
he had to stop. Maybe this is

716
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:30.119
the time to be a little bit
more. And there are there are two

717
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:31.760
really good guest stars. Actually there
just three, but we can't mention one

718
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:37.000
of them. But one of the
guest stars was Larry Dobkin. He played

719
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:42.679
the Klingon Ambassador. He actually uh
was a director during the original Star Trek

720
00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.400
series. He directed the episode Charlie
X. And then we got John Fleck,

721
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.320
who plays one of the Romulans.
We see him later on. He

722
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:53.960
played uh uh Silic in Star Trek
Enterprise during its first two years. Oh

723
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.719
and there's a couple first too.
In this episode. You know, we

724
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.679
got the first time we ever see
the Klingon and the Romulent transporters, and

725
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:05.280
then we got to see the new
Starfleet Phaser rifles too. That's right.

726
00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:10.199
There's one more first time Migell Merrett
receives credit for voicing the Enterprise D's computer.

727
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.360
Oh well, she deserved if they're
I'm glad they did finally get around

728
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:20.760
to doing that. Yeah, yep. She is so important to Star Trek

729
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:25.559
universe in general. Yes, yep, don't overlook Majel Barrett. All right,

730
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:30.039
Well let me wrap up the list
with number ten. And there is

731
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.599
another two parter. This is another
Cliffhanger is very good, so watch it.

732
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.119
That's all I can say. There
we go, We're doing. Tensions

733
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:44.440
on the Klingon homeworld escalate into civil
war as the Doros family and Gowron continue

734
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:47.039
to fight for leadership of the High
Council. The Enterprise, Picard, and

735
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:51.440
Wharf are forced to decide where they
stand in the matter, or if they

736
00:55:51.440 --> 00:55:54.400
should do so at all without violating
the prime directive. Behind the scenes,

737
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:59.840
a mysterious and villainous figure is pulling
the strings that connect the Romulans in this

738
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:05.960
conflict. This is an important two
part episode that has repercussions into the rest

739
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:13.199
of my generation, Deep Space nine
and beyond. I've got to you know,

740
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:19.280
I got to give credit to Cliff
Bowle. The director does a great

741
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:23.360
job in this one, the writers
Ronald D. Moore and Joe Minoski.

742
00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:34.840
But I really want to point out
Larsa and Vittor the I forgot the U

743
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:39.800
introduction. Oh good, Gwyneth Walsh, Barbara Marsh. Wow, this pair

744
00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:51.000
is so smart, so powerful,
so manipulative. Damn a whole other aspect

745
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:59.519
of uh clingon culture and of how
Klingons kind of differ. Right, You're

746
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:02.519
seeing different facets of what it means
to be clon, how people will interpret

747
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:08.039
that, and the power play.
I love the sets in this one.

748
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:14.320
I love being in the council chambers. I love the transporter effect that we

749
00:57:14.360 --> 00:57:20.840
see with this one. Yeah,
clingon kind of red dusting. And I

750
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:25.280
think one of my favorite scenes in
this is actually Wharf and Gaynan talking about

751
00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:30.519
that warf not be believe in that
Klingons laugh. Was it the target practice?

752
00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:37.039
Target practice? Good? That line
where He's like, well I practice

753
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:38.480
at this level and she was like, all right, I guess I could

754
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.639
come down to that for a day. I love I've talked about that target

755
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:47.559
practice kind of set before, very
simple, just a circle surrounded by you

756
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:52.280
know, darkness and a bunch of
you know, lights you have to hit

757
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:59.280
in a certain sequence, I assume. But their interaction builds on their relationships

758
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:01.639
so much for her to be able
to kind of like take him out of

759
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:06.880
himself for a moment and just say, hey, there's a difference between your

760
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:09.360
perception of what that needs to be
and who you are, and it's a

761
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:14.639
balance between the two. You don't
have to dive headfirst into this too much

762
00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:19.039
one way or the other. Find
that balance. Such an important relationship and

763
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.519
so many important things that happen in
this episode. Oh my gosh, Yeah,

764
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:25.880
I mean Robert O'Reilly's back is gwarn
and of course we get Tony Todd

765
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:30.840
back as current God bless Tony Todd. Yes, yes, And you know

766
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:34.400
I mentioned this to you, guys, I texted you the other day when

767
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.760
I rewatched this episode. I still
think Best of Both Worlds Part one is

768
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:42.320
still the best finale of any Star
Trek. But man, I forgot how

769
00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:46.480
powerful the ending of this one was
too. Yes, and this was originally

770
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:51.519
going to be the third season finale
before they even come up with Best Both

771
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:52.480
Worlds. But then they did and
said, oh, let's let's move this

772
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:54.559
off. We gotta do the board
one. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad

773
00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:59.039
they did this way too. Me
too, But so much going on,

774
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:01.199
and if it leads into the next
season, then just leads onto everything else

775
00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:06.039
in Star Trek from here on out. All right, So that wraps up

776
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.320
our top ten. Now there's still
a bit more to talk about, and

777
00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:13.000
usually I want to end on a
high note, so let's go low for

778
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.039
a minute. In every season,
there's got to be an episode that we

779
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:21.119
don't necessarily love for certain reasons,
or things that we wish didn't happen.

780
00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:27.079
I don't know that there are many
for me in this one, but I

781
00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:29.559
would say, just to start us
off, you know, as strong as

782
00:59:29.559 --> 00:59:35.280
the season is, even the problematic
episodes still have a lot of merit.

783
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.800
I think. Yeah. That being
that being said, the episode that I

784
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:45.400
would choose is actually suddenly human just
because it had a lot of annoying moments

785
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:52.960
from an audible perspective. There's this
kind of wailing that one of the characters

786
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.639
does, and he's got this kind
of teenage attitude that's very grading, and

787
00:59:55.920 --> 01:00:00.000
you know music that he plays that
sounds like a garbage disposal running full of

788
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:06.199
Christmas ornaments, Like it just really
got out my nerves, So what's one

789
01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:08.400
of yours for me? The least
episode they didn't like, and this one

790
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:17.159
was the episode the Loss counselor Troy
losing her betazoid powers and basically resigns her

791
01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:22.039
position, and then I guess there
was like what two life forms that the

792
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:25.360
Enterprise finds itself trapped between, and
then by the end, everything's okay,

793
01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:29.599
everything's back to normal. Okay,
fine, let's go, let's move on.

794
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.679
I know they toyed with the idea
of making her lose her power altogether,

795
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.079
and I don't know if I would
have gone that far. But what

796
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:42.360
I have liked to have seen in
something they would have done today is they

797
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:46.039
might have stretched this out more where
she did lose her power for maybe a

798
01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:51.159
season, you know, or half
a season or something like that, and

799
01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:53.840
you see that coming back in each
episode where she's dealing with that. I

800
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:58.960
think if they would have done that
more of that throughout the season, we're

801
01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:01.440
taken into the next season and she
finally gets them back, I think I

802
01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:04.400
would have liked that a lot better. But as a whole, I just

803
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:06.440
did not like this episode. Yeah, that's a good idea, I like

804
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.519
that, which you just said that
that would have been a great idea for

805
01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:13.719
me. It's very obvious because it's
this was a great season, and there's

806
01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:19.559
really only one that stands out.
That's Night Teares definitely my least top five

807
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:23.000
least favorite episodes of the series for
so many reasons. I find the the

808
01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:29.360
FX that Troy flying through the clouds
just just really bad. I mean,

809
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:32.679
even the guys who did the visual
effects thinks as bad. Jonathan Frakes hates

810
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:37.440
this episode. The director of the
episode hates this episode. You won't even

811
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:42.840
talk about it. But I have
a more personal reason for hating this episode

812
01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:49.400
because kind of a major event happened
in my life. I was a senior

813
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:53.519
in high school and I was working
at McDonald's and I had gotten off late.

814
01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:58.559
These episodes aired at ten o'clock on
Thursday nights in my area, and

815
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:01.840
I was rushing home, driving home
real quick down the State Route twenty nine,

816
01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:06.400
trying to get home, and I
ran into a deer. Oh,

817
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.639
and it smashed up my car big
time with you know, I hit it

818
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:16.039
and it flipped up in the air, hit my roof and smashed my front

819
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:22.760
windshield, put two thousand dollars worth
of damage to my car and and I

820
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:27.039
had to miss the episode. It
was this episode. Yeah, and it

821
01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:29.519
was this episode. Didn't even to
make matters worse. You know, I

822
01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:32.400
was rather embarrassed that, you know, I hit a deer rushing home to

823
01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.800
watch Star Trek. So I didn't
want anyone to know about it. And

824
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.599
the next day I went to school, and where I went to school,

825
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:45.599
there was a teacher that was a
relative of mine, and he found out

826
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.159
and and of course, you know, me trying to keep it a secret,

827
01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:53.199
he announced it on the morning announcements
to the entire school. You know

828
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:55.880
that I had hit a deer rushing
home to watch Star Trek. So I

829
01:02:55.960 --> 01:03:02.119
was really embarrassed. So I hate
this episode. You have many good reasons

830
01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:06.239
there, Yeah, you do.
I'm with you on this. I don't

831
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:10.199
disagree with the flying Deanna effect.
It was so weird, all right.

832
01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:15.119
Getting into something a little bit more
positive. We always focus on one specific

833
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:21.880
crew member for our favorite moments,
and every season we picked somebody different,

834
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.599
and for this one, we're picking
doctor Beverly Crusher. So, Wayne,

835
01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:29.119
what's one of your favorite moments of
hers? I had to really think about

836
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:32.199
it because I loved her starring role
and remember me, and she really shines

837
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:37.400
in that one. But I think
I'm going to choose the dancing lessons in

838
01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:38.920
Data's Day. I know it's one
of the episodes of our top ten,

839
01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:43.199
but it's still a really good episode
and a really important one too. She

840
01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:46.559
did all the our gates mcfahen did
all the choreography for the scene because she

841
01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:52.719
was a core choreographer before she became
Beverly Crusher and she worked with Jim Henson

842
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:58.159
and his on some of his films. But I love the look on her

843
01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.000
face when when Data comes and asks
her to teach him how to dance,

844
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.719
and she grabs him and pulls them
out out of the way so that nobody

845
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:08.559
else can hear it. And you
want to keep it a secret. From

846
01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:13.039
what I heard that both her and
Spiner wrote their own dialogue for the scene

847
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:16.079
and then the writers just went with
it. I love that scene. I

848
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:20.039
think it's it's one of the scenes
of the entire series that defines the character

849
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:26.280
of Beverly Crusher. Yeah, David
about going with the Hoffman answer again,

850
01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:29.719
I'd love to do this because it
was tough for me to pick just one,

851
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.000
but it really it boils down to
just one theme. I guess you

852
01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:36.039
could say it's it's Beverly Crusher being
a mother to Wesley. Oh yeah,

853
01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:40.840
there's some elements in this season that
we see some really good stuff between the

854
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:46.039
two of them. We see that
in Family when she's showing the when she

855
01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:50.880
finds that memory card that was recorded
of her of his father, and then

856
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:55.440
some of the stuff that we see
with her in Final Mission, you know,

857
01:04:55.519 --> 01:04:57.960
we get to see a little bit
of the dialogue between the two of

858
01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.880
them. So it really boils down
to one theme, just being the mother

859
01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:04.320
to Wesley throughout this season. It
just seems like it was a lot more

860
01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:10.800
powerful this year to me. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad that they did

861
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:18.159
more with her character, and I
know that I've heard that the Gates McFadden

862
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:24.000
was very frustrated with, you know, how much she was not necessarily given.

863
01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:27.480
But you definitely see, you know, when we talk about Counselor Troy

864
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:30.519
had her hands full, so did
Doctor Crusher. Like the scenes where you

865
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:33.800
see her have to keep her composure
during final mission to be like, yeah,

866
01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:36.800
well my son might possibly be dead, but there's a lot I have

867
01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:41.599
to do here on the ship and
just keep it together. Wait, I'm

868
01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:45.880
gonna double down on what you said
about Data's day and the dance scene.

869
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.960
When she's a choreographer, I know
that she would usually go by Cheryl McFadden

870
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:56.960
when you see that behind the scenes
Labyrinth outtakes or the behind the scenes special

871
01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:00.000
of that. When I saw her
there as Cheryl McFadden, I was like,

872
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:03.239
oh, twin sister, Like that's
great, but knowing how much that's

873
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:11.480
an important part of Gates McFadden,
the fact that she did all the dancing

874
01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:15.079
in those scenes and she's listed as
the choreographer for this one is great.

875
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:19.599
I think we're at the end of
this episode, wrapping up season four.

876
01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:24.800
Thanks guys for being here. Yeah, bond is always love it, Yes,

877
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:28.280
love it And as always, thanks
to our listeners for joining us.

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