10 Times Star Trek Broke The Fourth Wall

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  • @johnburnside7828
    @johnburnside78282 жыл бұрын

    Whoever wrote this has no idea what "breaking the fourth wall" actually means.

  • @warrenburroughs3025

    @warrenburroughs3025

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was going to post the exact same comment. These are not 4th wall breaks they're self references if anything.

  • @helencaleb2188

    @helencaleb2188

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. I'm halfway through the video, scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else is thinking the same thing, and apart from Picard looking at the camera there's nothing else?!

  • @tomf3150

    @tomf3150

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not even McCoy in Journey to Babel ?

  • @fivestar5897

    @fivestar5897

    2 жыл бұрын

    seems like it was put together hastily

  • @xyz.ijk.

    @xyz.ijk.

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomf3150 especially not McCoy! He's not even staring into the camera.

  • @FrankBlissett
    @FrankBlissett2 жыл бұрын

    I would, personally, make a distinction between an Easter-egg and an outright 4th wall break.

  • @therichuation

    @therichuation

    2 жыл бұрын

    But then they wouldn't have a list

  • @cage1138

    @cage1138

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly!!

  • @knarf247

    @knarf247

    2 жыл бұрын

    agreed

  • @BeeWhistler

    @BeeWhistler

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, by these standards I'd include the time Quark was asking people to try root beer and give their opinion. Funny, familiar, but not fourth wall breaking.

  • @willvgo2950

    @willvgo2950

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BeeWhistler It's insidious... just like the federation

  • @jenniferbaldini3527
    @jenniferbaldini35272 жыл бұрын

    'Fourth wall break...' "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means". ~Inigo Montoya, 'The Princess Bride'. 😉 🖖

  • @mikefarrington7141

    @mikefarrington7141

    2 жыл бұрын

    They never broke the 4th wall, they just glanced in its general direction a few times.

  • @billkeithchannel

    @billkeithchannel

    2 жыл бұрын

    tie knee earl /SoInconceivable

  • @ultramaximusreviews

    @ultramaximusreviews

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the same thing. They need to watch a Deadpool movie, a Bugs Bunny cartoon or read a She-Hulk comic book.... this was embarrassing.

  • @jenniferbaldini3527

    @jenniferbaldini3527

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ultramaximusreviews BAHAHAHA!!!! Bugs Bunny! *GOOD ONE!*

  • @sarahfullerton6894

    @sarahfullerton6894

    Жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha 😅, good reference!

  • @Species-rj9si
    @Species-rj9si2 жыл бұрын

    The Klingon ridges didn't begin with the Nex Generation (1987). They were first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

  • @estudiordl

    @estudiordl

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for this 😃

  • @fivestar5897

    @fivestar5897

    2 жыл бұрын

    you speak like someone who has done their homework, unlike TrekCulture who have done great work in past but really phoned this one in

  • @Chris-et2fm

    @Chris-et2fm

    2 жыл бұрын

    True. Also now you have 69 likes. Nice.

  • @JaredLS10

    @JaredLS10

    Жыл бұрын

    The ridges we know and love didnt happen until Search for Spock in 84, the ridges in TMP the Klingons looked like leather back turtle shell got slapped on to the actors heads.

  • @davemitchell116

    @davemitchell116

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JaredLS10 Still, they were ridges. That was my point.

  • @jackroyaltea5034
    @jackroyaltea50342 жыл бұрын

    Nog is not an underrated character. He’s not overrated either. But he is a beloved character by almost all fans or trek. His episode with Vic was amazing.

  • @ianlister7333

    @ianlister7333

    2 жыл бұрын

    recent events have gone along way to ensure Nog is no longer an under rated character.

  • @b1oh1

    @b1oh1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree. I do think Vic doesn't always get the recognition he deserves though.

  • @StockportJambo

    @StockportJambo

    2 жыл бұрын

    *pally intensifies*

  • @icecold9511

    @icecold9511

    2 жыл бұрын

    We make them sorry they ever set foot in the Alpha Quadrant. I feel sorry for the Jem'hidar

  • @sleepinggorilla

    @sleepinggorilla

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nog won me over when he recognized that his own father was not the ideal Ferengi but still had value as an engineer. He did not want to be his father, but he wanted to be like his father at the same time.

  • @kstormgeistgem461
    @kstormgeistgem4612 жыл бұрын

    ah, but in a meta way, "put on a red shirt" was prophetic never the less. RIP Anton Yelchin... a lovely Checkov and an amazing Odd Thomas.

  • @GloriaGraceRand

    @GloriaGraceRand

    2 сағат бұрын

    Yes, I realized that too.

  • @shininginshadows
    @shininginshadows2 жыл бұрын

    Surprised Q's "Trek through the stars" line from All Good Things didn't make it in. I mean, he was literally talking about the show ending in the final episode!!!

  • @brianlane723

    @brianlane723

    2 жыл бұрын

    He also quotes the episode title in the next sentence.

  • @Bored_Barbarian

    @Bored_Barbarian

    2 жыл бұрын

    YES! That’s what I thought 😂 was wondering why it wasn’t included

  • @harcomou8395

    @harcomou8395

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because Trekculture is not perfect.

  • @sarahkinsey5434

    @sarahkinsey5434

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember him saying something about technobabble in a throwaway line

  • @TakuroSpirit77

    @TakuroSpirit77

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahkinsey5434 He said "Troi's pedantic psychobabble"

  • @dan1216
    @dan12162 жыл бұрын

    9:58 - Sela was NOT a clone, she was Tasha Yar's daughter.

  • @brettcooper3893

    @brettcooper3893

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, this channel is horrible about doing their homework.

  • @DaveCummings76

    @DaveCummings76

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@brettcooper3893 They also said that the Klingons had ridges since TNG...though the movies were when the ridges first showed up

  • @UltimatePerfection

    @UltimatePerfection

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DaveCummings76 That was understandable as they might've meant "in the shows".

  • @KipdoesStuff

    @KipdoesStuff

    2 жыл бұрын

    Too many script errors to count. But someone should.

  • @Kelko-Zamba

    @Kelko-Zamba

    2 жыл бұрын

    Many videos purposely mess up information for audience interaction in the comments...like now. It's a trap they push in in time and time again.

  • @jovanmelton
    @jovanmelton2 жыл бұрын

    Quark looks directly in the camera and says Picard’s line from Star Trek First Contact, “The Line must be drawn here, this far and no further.”

  • @rojoeditor

    @rojoeditor

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'll bet he didn't say "... right heah..."

  • @rharris4736

    @rharris4736

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rojoeditor No, but he did say "this fah, no fuh-thah!"

  • @jayb8934
    @jayb89342 жыл бұрын

    “In the Pale Moon Light” is definitely a 4th wall break, though done in a very clever way. Sisko is speaking directly to the audience throughout the episode. Brilliantly done!

  • @jeffreyb.2817

    @jeffreyb.2817

    2 жыл бұрын

    What always get me about KZread videos that discuss "In the Pale Moonlight" is they always say "Two Murders". What about the guards? Garak said 4 guards? A pilot? but at a minimum there was two guards we saw. So at least 4 murders and logically up to 7.

  • @TheRealJuseBeats

    @TheRealJuseBeats

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yea that was dope. I kinda wanted them to do more stuff like that.

  • @ijmad

    @ijmad

    2 жыл бұрын

    Technically I think you'd this a 'framing device'

  • @StormsparkPegasus

    @StormsparkPegasus

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is called "leaning on the fourth wall", it's not a fourth wall break.

  • @brianlane723

    @brianlane723

    2 жыл бұрын

    Garak's "we can forget the whole enterprise" is a chilling fourth wall break.

  • @debunkosaurus8228
    @debunkosaurus82282 жыл бұрын

    You missed one from DS9 (I don't recall which episode) where Quark looks into the camera and says, "War. What's it good for? Absolutely nothing."

  • @countroshculla

    @countroshculla

    2 жыл бұрын

    Say it again!

  • @Thurgosh_OG

    @Thurgosh_OG

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@countroshculla "War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing."

  • @brianlane723

    @brianlane723

    2 жыл бұрын

    He also gets the "This far, no further" remix

  • @catnewskawai9367

    @catnewskawai9367

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good God, y'all.

  • @FuzzyElf

    @FuzzyElf

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, that's silly. Surely the correct answer is, "Profit."

  • @ToledoNative
    @ToledoNative2 жыл бұрын

    I had heard about Denice Crosby waiving to the camera, but never caught it in the show. Thanks for including it.

  • @GabePuratekuta

    @GabePuratekuta

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wait, she made sure the camera was coming with her?

  • @replimatreviews
    @replimatreviews2 жыл бұрын

    I'm thinking TrekCulture has another term to look up. Breaking the Fourth Wall does not mean what you evidently think it means.

  • @OrinThomas

    @OrinThomas

    2 жыл бұрын

    They are too busy labelling stuff "problematic"

  • @replimatreviews

    @replimatreviews

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@OrinThomas Yes, that's the problem here. *rolls eyes* (In case it's not clear; I don't agree with you.)

  • @builder396

    @builder396

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@OrinThomas Could you elaborate on that? I seem to be living under a rock.

  • @malte1984
    @malte19842 жыл бұрын

    hmm.... somehow I doubt that you can call an "Easteregg" which the USS Nog and the "I am a Doctor" quote are a 4th wall break...

  • @samclark379

    @samclark379

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree. More a tribute than a wall break.

  • @malte1984

    @malte1984

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@samclark379 yeah... but i`ts still a fun list though

  • @Heymrk

    @Heymrk

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's also not an easter egg. It's just a reference.

  • @malte1984

    @malte1984

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Heymrk well, potato patata

  • @Heymrk

    @Heymrk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@malte1984 Nope. More like potato/grapefruit.

  • @earth2006
    @earth20062 жыл бұрын

    You missed a big one, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" when threatened will jail for 200 years Kirk looks at the camera says something like "That's just about right".

  • @sarahfullerton6894

    @sarahfullerton6894

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly! One of the best. But this young woman doesn't seem to like the original much, so that's probably why.

  • @Proximityillusions
    @Proximityillusions2 жыл бұрын

    I’m amazed that you didn’t include the last scene from “Ship In A Bottle,” where Picard comments about Barclay’s miniature holodeck: Barclay: “As far as Moriarty and the countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime." Picard: “They will live their lives and never know any difference." Trio: “In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted." Picard: “In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table." (all leave, except Barclay, who apprehensively tests his environment...) Barclay: “Computer, end program." (Nothing happens, and Barclay smiles) Show ends.

  • @amehak1922

    @amehak1922

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ikr, I expecting this too.

  • @TheAgent535

    @TheAgent535

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was very surprised this one didn’t make the list, with so many other references that aren’t really fourth wall breaking.

  • @beauxr.benoit1374

    @beauxr.benoit1374

    2 жыл бұрын

    What if Barclay doesn't have access to that computer?

  • @Proximityillusions

    @Proximityillusions

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beauxr.benoit1374, the program ended two seconds later, did it not?

  • @kelli217

    @kelli217

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep. It was the _end_ of the _program._

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    TNG S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: "In a sense, who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table."

  • @thomasnieswandt8805

    @thomasnieswandt8805

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, i dont get it, how they could miss THE moment, when Picard admits "Its a TV program" well not strictly speaking but you get the point ...

  • @tomf3150

    @tomf3150

    2 жыл бұрын

    Computer end program.

  • @billkeithchannel

    @billkeithchannel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to enclosed flat earth Picard.

  • @digitalnomad9985

    @digitalnomad9985

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tomf3150 I wouldn't chance it.

  • @StormsparkPegasus
    @StormsparkPegasus2 жыл бұрын

    Occasionally you can lean on the fourth wall (where what they are saying can be interpreted as addressing the audience, but also makes sense in the story - for example it will be revealed that the character is looking at a camera). An actor accidentally looking at the camera is not a fourth wall break. Light references to actor names are also not fourth wall breaks. Characters using known catchphrases is also not a fourth wall break. Fully outright breaking the fourth wall completely destroys the story unless it's a comedy. For example, Spaceballs can break the fourth wall all it wants without messing it up, because it's a comedy.

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah, and (not sci-fi but...) Fran Drescher did that all the time in "The Nanny" probably partly because it did have a studio audience.

  • @billkeithchannel

    @billkeithchannel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?

  • @DoremiFasolatido1979

    @DoremiFasolatido1979

    2 жыл бұрын

    "It's not what it is, because I don't want it to be!"

  • @StormsparkPegasus

    @StormsparkPegasus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoremiFasolatido1979 Doesn't change the fact that these examples are not fourth wall breaks. They are, at best, leaning on the fourth wall, which is something different.

  • @TokyoXtreme

    @TokyoXtreme

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anything with Garry Shandling in the 80s and 90s.

  • @TheNooberd
    @TheNooberd2 жыл бұрын

    I don't think you know what "break the fourth wall" means...

  • @Zurround
    @Zurround2 жыл бұрын

    In STAR TREK 4 THE VOYAGE HOME Dr. McCoy said to the newly resurrected Spock "You really HAVE gone where no man has gone before" (meaning died and came back to life). That line "where no man has gone before" is from the NARRATION.

  • @Selden83
    @Selden832 жыл бұрын

    On DS9 when Bashir teleports Keiko's fetus into Kira. The pregnant Kira says to Bashir "You did this to me." Which was a wink to their real life marriage and that Siddig was the one who got Visitor pregnant

  • @thompson9400
    @thompson94002 жыл бұрын

    Zefram Cochran's line was classic

  • @thomasnieswandt8805
    @thomasnieswandt88052 жыл бұрын

    Do you forget your research? Klingons didnt change for TNG?! Klingons look like this since the motion picture in 1979! Also how can you forget "Ship in the bottle" ?? THE MOMENT when Picard admits "Its all a TV show" well not literally, but you get the idea.

  • @SturdivantRacing126
    @SturdivantRacing1262 жыл бұрын

    I don't know this video knows what a fourth wall break is vs a reference...

  • @lloydmills5968
    @lloydmills59682 жыл бұрын

    My personal favorite isn't on this list. In TNG's series finale, "All Good Things", Q says to Picard, "It's time to put an end to your TREK through the stars...", but the way he pauses after 'trek' and gives a little half smile as he does so makes it obvious it's intended for the audience.

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    Жыл бұрын

    he should have said 'We'll meet again (in about 30 years....), Picard. The trial never ends"

  • @michaeldunahee4537
    @michaeldunahee45372 жыл бұрын

    A huge fourth wall break that was overlooked was in the TNG episode "The Game." Picard says, "Go. Replicate what you need, and see that the devices are properly distributed." Then, turning to the camera and staring right at it, he says, "Not forgetting Mr Crusher," and he continues to stare at the camera until the scene ends.

  • @Normal1855
    @Normal18552 жыл бұрын

    In, First Contact, the doctor said, I'm a doctor, not a door stop.🤣

  • @TCTurner

    @TCTurner

    2 жыл бұрын

    I loved the "This is a sickbay, not an arsenal" one. I miss the Doctor!!

  • @UltimatePerfection

    @UltimatePerfection

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TCTurner I hope they'll get Picardo back for the modern shows. The nice thing about his character is that he's a hologram and as such he could appear basically in any series that takes place chronologically after the Voyager, such as Picard or Discovery. Obviously he aged quite a bit, but it could be explained away as Doctor altering his program to look more distinguished.

  • @TCTurner

    @TCTurner

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@UltimatePerfection I think he'd be more suited to appear in Prodigy or Lower Decks. As good as they are in their own right, I feel his character is too lighthearted for the modern live action

  • @Hanneth

    @Hanneth

    Жыл бұрын

    I still think Picardo was the best part of Voyager, and sometimes would watch some of the show if I was flipping channels and his character was on screen.

  • @daniel385
    @daniel3852 жыл бұрын

    I always thought McCoy was looking at Amanda. It doesn't appear he's looking into the camera.

  • @jenaauerstedt7650

    @jenaauerstedt7650

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had that same thought. He certainly doesn't appear to be looking at the camera. If you're going to count that, you might as well include Scotty's "Where there'll be no tribble at all" in "The Trouble with Tribbles."

  • @NeoTechni
    @NeoTechni2 жыл бұрын

    "unnecessarily sexy costumes" does not compute

  • @jtkirkfan2002
    @jtkirkfan20022 жыл бұрын

    Klingons with facial ridges have appeared that way since Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

  • @GoddessPallasAthena
    @GoddessPallasAthena2 жыл бұрын

    The Nog / Eisenberg Easter Egg is a sweet tribute.

  • @Renegade2786
    @Renegade27862 жыл бұрын

    Funny how Picard's last line in the TNG episode *Ship in a Bottle* is not on this list.

  • @Lebenszeitbeamter

    @Lebenszeitbeamter

    2 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU!

  • @jimivel604

    @jimivel604

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Insert Leo DiCaprio pointing meme here

  • @SanjayMerchant
    @SanjayMerchant2 жыл бұрын

    10:08 There's another layer to Chekhov seeming reluctant to put on the red shirt. Supposedly, when Walter Koenig was first offered the role, someone said to him "Whatever you do, don't let them put you in a red shirt."

  • @The_Lucent_Archangel
    @The_Lucent_Archangel2 жыл бұрын

    The wormhole in "The Price" led to the Delta, not Gamma Quadrant. That was how Janeway and Co. ended up finding the two Ferengi who bumbled through to try and foul up the negotiations and got stuck on the other side when the wormhole shifted position.

  • @mrbjangles
    @mrbjangles2 жыл бұрын

    The first contact? Breaking the credibility fourth wall there 🤣🤣🤣

  • @NeoMorphUK
    @NeoMorphUK2 жыл бұрын

    Ironically, Anton Yelchin was correct… what a sad way to go.

  • @lilithmatriarch7509

    @lilithmatriarch7509

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ouch. Was not prepared.

  • @givmi_more_w9251

    @givmi_more_w9251

    Жыл бұрын

    He really did die in a somewhat-red-shirt manner. Such a pity, I really liked him. One of the few elements of the phony spectacle that is JJ Trek that I liked.

  • @vladutcornel
    @vladutcornel2 жыл бұрын

    Lower Decks specifically talking about TOS deserves a mention.

  • @dmkatelyn

    @dmkatelyn

    2 жыл бұрын

    You know, Those Old Scientists.

  • @MHesse
    @MHesse2 жыл бұрын

    These are a vast stretch to be called 4th wall breaks. Seems to be confusion about what an Easter Egg is.

  • @JohnnyX50
    @JohnnyX502 жыл бұрын

    I cant believe I have never noticed Tasha waving at the camera in Symbiosis! One thing does puzzle me though. After the cheeky wave Picard and Crusher get in a turbo lift and call for main bridge, leaving Tash in the cargo room looking quite busy. Moments later when Picard and Crusher walk onto the bridge, Tasha is at her post looking like she was there all the time. How did she get there so fast? Beamed in? Super Duper Turbo Lift?

  • @KommanderKrim
    @KommanderKrim2 жыл бұрын

    In a semi related way to the #1 entry, Q says something similar to Picard in the TNG series finale saying "your trek through the stars"

  • @kevinmorrow9056
    @kevinmorrow9056 Жыл бұрын

    Kirk never said, “Beam me up, Scotty.” Accuracy is fundamental.

  • @ChrisReise
    @ChrisReise2 жыл бұрын

    Just a quick correction. The Klingons have had their facial ridges since "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, NOT "The Next Generation" in 1987. Additionally, aside from Denise Crosby's wave goodbye, these are nothing but Easter Eggs.

  • @jenaauerstedt7650

    @jenaauerstedt7650

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think Sulu's wink in "The Infinite Vulcan" counts as a fourth wall break, too. As would have the lines from "Ship in a Bottle" if they had thought to include it.

  • @givmi_more_w9251

    @givmi_more_w9251

    Жыл бұрын

    In the Pale Moonlight I can get behind as a fourth-wall break, as Sisko is basically justifying his actions to himself, and by extension, the audience directly. It is definitely in the right ballpark. The "I'm a doctor, not an xyz" is not even in the same galaxy. It's called a running joke.

  • @tdpittman5676
    @tdpittman56762 жыл бұрын

    You missed THE MOST OBVIOUS 4th WALL BREAK in Trek history - when told he would be locked up for 200 years by a USAF Colonel in the 1960s, Kirk looks directly at the camera and deadpans "That ought to be just about right." YOU HAD ONE JOB, Trek Culture!!! ;) (Season 1, Episode 19 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", 35 mins, 20 seconds into the episode)

  • @sarahfullerton6894

    @sarahfullerton6894

    Жыл бұрын

    One of my two TOS favorites. I do think McCoy breaks that fourth wall, in "Journey to Babel"! That. And "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" are two on my list of TOS favorites. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year, everyone! Peace!✌

  • @chefexcellence322
    @chefexcellence3222 жыл бұрын

    That wormhole that the Ferengi wanted access to lead to the Delta quadrant, not the Gamma quadrant.

  • @tetravega567
    @tetravega5672 жыл бұрын

    I thought the 1st one about the Ferengi was gonna mention the Marauder Mo action figures in DS9.

  • @audiounlimited1963
    @audiounlimited19632 жыл бұрын

    This list is a joke. Meta content ≠ Fourth wall break.

  • @88Bluebird
    @88Bluebird2 жыл бұрын

    Missed a big one. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, there's the scene in the transporter room after the klingon delegation beams back to their ship, the whole bridge crew complains about the experience leaving Spock to stare perplexed into the camera before delivering his iconic raised eyebrow.

  • @Tyracks

    @Tyracks

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is the biggest one imo

  • @loki78731
    @loki787312 жыл бұрын

    "Beam me up Scotty" was never uttered even once in the original Star Trek.

  • @joermnyc

    @joermnyc

    2 жыл бұрын

    The closest is in Voyage Home, when Kirk thinks he’s saying goodbye to Gillian: “Scotty, beam me up.”

  • @sandradavis7132

    @sandradavis7132

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's why she says it's apocryphal.

  • @TakaComics
    @TakaComics Жыл бұрын

    The thing about that First Contact line though... everyone laughed at it. I still think it's a genuinely funny line, especially when said by a drunk and clueless Zephram Cochrane. XD

  • @JohnnyWednesday
    @JohnnyWednesday2 жыл бұрын

    (watches in shock) "Computer, what is a fourth wall? .... Computer? COMPUTER!!"

  • @Kremmen2001
    @Kremmen20012 жыл бұрын

    Breaking the fourth wall. I don’t think that means what you think it means…

  • @amehak1922
    @amehak19222 жыл бұрын

    A fan tweeted Aaron Eisenberg to ask him if he'd do a cameo as Nog on the Picard series, Aaron said he'd love to. He went to the hospital and died within 24 hours. :'(

  • @Milewskige
    @Milewskige2 жыл бұрын

    8:20 I always wondered how the "smooth" faced Klingons didn't recognize that Worf was "normal"

  • @Toktokispoison
    @Toktokispoison2 жыл бұрын

    When McCoy gets the last word, he’s not looking at the camera, he’s looking and talking to nurse Chappel

  • @builder396
    @builder3962 жыл бұрын

    You somehow included easter eggs, but not the scene where Picard laments that perhaps even he and his crew perhaps exist just inside a box on someone's desk. HOW? (Episode would be "Ship in a Bottle")

  • @christine8341

    @christine8341

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s more a reference to simulation theory than a fourth wall break, I think.

  • @josephsouther9874

    @josephsouther9874

    Жыл бұрын

    They also forgot when Picard stares directly at the camera at the end of the cold opening of the TNG episode “Sarek”

  • @AlexGreeneHypnotist
    @AlexGreeneHypnotist2 жыл бұрын

    The "Chekov redshirt" moment became far, far more poignant only a few years later, when Anton Yelchin died, leaving you the reader not knowing whether to laugh or groan at this moment.

  • @jeffreywaldman3504
    @jeffreywaldman35042 жыл бұрын

    You forgot "Ship in a Bottle" from TNG. Picard giving a smile suggesting they too are inside a device on someone's table.

  • @timadams3975

    @timadams3975

    Жыл бұрын

    One of my favs from the TNG.

  • @HighHeelKnight
    @HighHeelKnight2 жыл бұрын

    Is Ellie Littlechild's real name Sean Ferrick because that is who is credited for presenting this list? 🤷 UPDATE = The editor and Ms Littlechild responded on Twitter. It was a shortsighted error.

  • @alonespirit9923

    @alonespirit9923

    2 жыл бұрын

    Go look up Sean Ferrick on Twitter.

  • @HighHeelKnight

    @HighHeelKnight

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alonespirit9923 The TrekCulture staff responded on Twitter. Thanks.

  • @lucasgabrielpereirabarbosa9672
    @lucasgabrielpereirabarbosa9672 Жыл бұрын

    Man, c'mon, those "Kind of Star Trek" quote was brilliant, I always giggle to myself when I remember it and it was a perfect place to quote it

  • @wickideazy
    @wickideazy2 жыл бұрын

    Your credits are broken, folks. Writer: Nick Edgeworth, Presenter: Sean Ferrick?

  • @DeathBYDesign666
    @DeathBYDesign6662 жыл бұрын

    I liked the Picardos doctor quips even better than McCoys honestly, basically because since he's a hologram he could practically use anything. I'm a doctor, not a database for instance. The irony being is he usually is the very thing he says he isn't as well to an extent.

  • @cateclism316
    @cateclism3162 жыл бұрын

    McCoy's last line in Journey to Babel is my personal favorite!

  • @SuperStoogefan
    @SuperStoogefan2 жыл бұрын

    "...despite his temporary fatality..." 😂

  • @jimmeans14
    @jimmeans14 Жыл бұрын

    Q's line toward the end of "Deja Q" when he said to Riker, "So stolid, commander. You weren't like this before the beard."

  • @mrmike1972
    @mrmike19722 жыл бұрын

    I never noticed the Denise Crosby wave good-bye before.

  • @jasonjimerson7046
    @jasonjimerson70462 жыл бұрын

    I think you missed one... "What am I? A doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" ...McCoy said that prior to Devil in the Dark in The Corbomite Maneuver.

  • @samclark379

    @samclark379

    2 жыл бұрын

    She did say "in its traditional form". That line qualifies as a moment, but it's not in the exact wording fans are used to.

  • @HeathInClearLake
    @HeathInClearLake2 жыл бұрын

    trying to get through this video was exhausting. Keep it simple and quick, please

  • @ZantherStone
    @ZantherStone2 жыл бұрын

    Q also makes reference to ending their trek across the stars. And more recently makes reference to Yesterday’s Enterprise.

  • @fredfiles2155
    @fredfiles21552 жыл бұрын

    You should have included Q turning the Voyager into a Christmas Tree ornament. RL trek ship ornaments was an annual tradition at the time

  • @SheosMan117
    @SheosMan1172 жыл бұрын

    You know, Q was actually the first to talk about a "Trek through the stars." And it would make sense that a being as powerful as him, as omniscient as him, could see past the 4th wall to a degree.

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    Жыл бұрын

    and Cochrane with is "you're astronauts on some kind of star trek...". kind of stating the obvious exposition, but also a self-reference.

  • @chadrickmansfield
    @chadrickmansfield2 жыл бұрын

    I feel this girl doesn't know the difference between a fourth wall break and a callback.

  • @hopewec
    @hopewec2 жыл бұрын

    As someone who enjoys bad puns, Cochrane's line got a chuckle and a groan from me.

  • @stevek4070
    @stevek4070 Жыл бұрын

    In The Pale Moonlight was such a great episode! I never noticed Denise waving in the background of that one episode. Felt really sweet.

  • @willdwyer6782
    @willdwyer67822 жыл бұрын

    The "I'm a doctor" gag isn't as funny without being preceded by, "Dammit Jim..."

  • @--Animal--

    @--Animal--

    2 жыл бұрын

    What about "he's dead jim..."

  • @wesleyhoward5599
    @wesleyhoward55992 жыл бұрын

    Seeing Patrick Stewart with hair is oddly unsettling.

  • @missironfist5771
    @missironfist57712 жыл бұрын

    I love how, when mentioning that Patrick Stewart is an accomplished Shakespearean actor, you showed him as Sejanus talking to Tiberius; from, “I, Claudius.” 👍🏽

  • @theapostatejack8648
    @theapostatejack86482 жыл бұрын

    "I'm a doctor, not a historian!" - Julian Bashir - The Trouble with Tribbles

  • @Rockhound6165

    @Rockhound6165

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's not a 4th wall break. That's trolling if we want to use a more contemporary term.

  • @FalloutJack
    @FalloutJack Жыл бұрын

    Patrick Stewart is indeed a fine Shakespearean actor, and I have seen the I, Claudius which you nodded to while saying so. However, while Shakespeare himself never leaned too heavily on the fourth wall, theatre actors have done so, from time to time. Even still, we can still take it as Picard rolling his eyes at the universe for putting him in the position to deal with the Ferrengi.

  • @dakariszulu
    @dakariszulu Жыл бұрын

    How to say you don't understand what the fourth wall is without saying that you don't understand what the fourth wall is...

  • @Mohegan13
    @Mohegan13 Жыл бұрын

    The closest thing to a fourth wall break in TNG that I remember was "Ship in a Bottle" when Picard does his "Our reality may be very much like theirs, all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table" speech.

  • @lykan2
    @lykan22 жыл бұрын

    You make it sound like the "Star Trek" joke in First Contact is bad...i had a good laugh the first time i heard it and still have to this day whenever i watch it.

  • @danielyeshe
    @danielyeshe2 жыл бұрын

    What about Q's comment in All Good Things? 'We're going to put an end to your trek through the stars.' I actually prefer that to the First Contact line. As it is a more natural sentence.

  • @andrewmurray1550

    @andrewmurray1550

    Жыл бұрын

    that's silly too. Q practically gives Picard the answer to the puzzle about the gaseous anomaly, but dismisses it as being "all too easy" (said the same thing about Farpoint Station).

  • @kip258
    @kip2582 жыл бұрын

    If you ask me, Patrick Stewart looks like he's looking just past the camera and not directly at it in that first one.

  • @michaelmckinnon7314
    @michaelmckinnon73142 жыл бұрын

    Amazingly no 4th wall breaks actually appear on this list

  • @jackgibsxxx0750
    @jackgibsxxx07502 жыл бұрын

    ~8:50+.... You can tell DC (Yar) sure was enjoying that hug. 😂😂😂

  • @andrewmurray1550
    @andrewmurray1550 Жыл бұрын

    Sisko recording his log and apparently speaking to us, the audience is probably not the intention of the episode. He's recording his video-log just as modern you-tubers would today, so of course he's speaking direct to camera, so intentional, not accidental or unscripted.

  • @stephenconger2029
    @stephenconger20292 жыл бұрын

    I propose a "Lower Decks" "MST3K" crossover where they try to rescue a man trapped in space only to be captured themselves and then forced to watch an old Star Trek episode referred to as a historical document.

  • @adcraziness1501
    @adcraziness1501 Жыл бұрын

    You missed one of Doc McCoy's fourth wall breaks. In Star Trek V when Kirk is climbing the mountain, Bones is looking through some treknoculars and directly addresses the camera... "Playing games with life... If I'm not careful I'll end up talking to myself" etc. I don't remember the exact scene but I remember him almost directly addressing the viewers.

  • @markmayfield2228
    @markmayfield2228 Жыл бұрын

    Just because the actor is looking directly into the camera, it doesn't mean it is a 4th wall break. It is used as a meta comment. The character is making an off-hand comment to him/herself. Not even Sisko's lines. It was expository. He was still making his log recording. Then he deleted the entire thing, ending the episode.

  • @AceSpadeThePikachu
    @AceSpadeThePikachu Жыл бұрын

    I don't know if I'd call most of these "fourth wall breaks." Most of them are more homages than anything else.

  • @beachyhh
    @beachyhh2 жыл бұрын

    What abot Ship in a bottle? With THE 4th wall moment talking about the 4th wall :)

  • @ianlister7333
    @ianlister73332 жыл бұрын

    Trials and Tribble-ations has another one. I think its O Brian and Bashir confuse a character played by Kirks body double for Kirk himself.

  • @QuixoteX
    @QuixoteX2 жыл бұрын

    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country "don't wait for the translation, answer me now"

  • @TheMelbournelad
    @TheMelbournelad2 жыл бұрын

    I always enjoyed the “Star Trek gag” always made me chuckle

  • @AdamEspersona
    @AdamEspersona2 жыл бұрын

    Technically there was that look that Pike gives directly to the audience at the end of “A Quality of Mercy” in Strange New Worlds.

  • @sftommy01
    @sftommy01 Жыл бұрын

    TAS Sulu winking is the only compelling violation of the fourth wall

  • @michaelfitzsimmons8393
    @michaelfitzsimmons83932 жыл бұрын

    A video about fourth wall breaks referencing non-fourth wall breaks? That's like, negative sixteen walls.

  • @bradfilippone7064
    @bradfilippone7064 Жыл бұрын

    You included the "Star trek" line but forgot about McCoy saying to Spock, "You really have gone where no man has gone before" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

  • @bigloudnoise
    @bigloudnoise2 жыл бұрын

    Another "wink to the camera" moment happens in Star Trek The Motion Picture, where Kirk winks to the camera after Spock helps fix the engines and they successfully jump to warp.

  • @stevenlitvintchouk3131

    @stevenlitvintchouk3131

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought he was winking at Chekov.

  • @FuzzyElf

    @FuzzyElf

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stevenlitvintchouk3131 I'd have winked at Chekhov. Either one. ;-)

  • @estudiordl
    @estudiordl2 жыл бұрын

    I never knew about Tasha wave. Nice 😄

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