Is This the Best Season of TNG?

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Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the most popular sci-fi shows of all time. Its third season is considered by many to be a step up in the quality of the writing, but does season 4 continue that trend?
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00:00 Intro
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  • @OrangeRiver
    @OrangeRiver Жыл бұрын

    Head over to orange-river-merch.myspreadshop.com to grab your T-shirt, backpack, hoodie, or mug today! _Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!_

  • @beepboop204

    @beepboop204

    Жыл бұрын

    will you be reviewing the series.... all the way down?

  • @ksiaa814

    @ksiaa814

    Жыл бұрын

    @@beepboop204 why would he stop?

  • @beepboop204

    @beepboop204

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ksiaa814 i just gotta ask if it goes ALL the way

  • @ksiaa814

    @ksiaa814

    Жыл бұрын

    @@beepboop204 no I get ya. I mean at this point it seems sort of mandatory in my eyes

  • @beepboop204

    @beepboop204

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ksiaa814 100% all the way jokes are mandatory

  • @MrMatthias
    @MrMatthias Жыл бұрын

    "Family" is one of my favorite episodes of the series. Picard's breakdown after he fights his brother always gets me emotional

  • @jazzpunk

    @jazzpunk

    Жыл бұрын

    Same here...a much needed breather after The Best Of Both Worlds. I recall watching Family on its debut...my mom is in the room & she asked, "I thought this show was about outer space". :-)

  • @lionspawfilmandphoto

    @lionspawfilmandphoto

    11 ай бұрын

    I love that it explores traumatic fallout and long-held resentment, really pulls it all out and lets it breathe.

  • @WokeBegone

    @WokeBegone

    9 ай бұрын

    Don't get emotional. Did you learn nothing from Spock?

  • @villageidiots2041
    @villageidiots2041 Жыл бұрын

    I love how Worf always had the most extreme/aggressive option when giving his advice on what to do in any given situation. The episode where they all got amnesia and Worf just assumed he was the captain because of his decorative sash thing was priceless.

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    His delivery is so strong. “You forget… _I_ am decorated as well.” I also love how Picard’s advice is still better for their situation, even though he’s giving it more deferentially than he usually does.

  • @3MenAndALetsPlay

    @3MenAndALetsPlay

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kaitlyn__L I also love how he is essentially an anime tsundere archetype who tries to act tough but is secretly a big ol softy, and keeps adopting kids into his family.

  • @SirMarshalHaig

    @SirMarshalHaig

    Жыл бұрын

    My father loved that moment. He often siad 'Look, it´s the decorated Worf' when Worf showed up in a scene.

  • @Ken-fh4jc

    @Ken-fh4jc

    11 ай бұрын

    The episode is Conundrum where they all have amnesia. I don’t mind Worf always giving the tactics option. He’s security chief. It’s his job to give the tactical option.

  • @WokeBegone

    @WokeBegone

    9 ай бұрын

    Put yourself in that position, with amnesia, and you could easily make the same mistake. It's as logical a surmise as anyone else made in that scene.

  • @L33Reacts
    @L33Reacts Жыл бұрын

    Season 3 to season 6 is a legendary run.

  • @commiecomrade2644

    @commiecomrade2644

    Жыл бұрын

    you'd be missing so many good episodes. Measure of a Man for one. Season 7 has The Pegasus. Plenty of others.

  • @L33Reacts

    @L33Reacts

    Жыл бұрын

    @@commiecomrade2644 this is true. But S3 to S6 has little to no misses. S2 is great and yet terrible at the same time. S7 was mediocre minus a few episodes like all good things and the Pegasus as you mentioned.

  • @glasswhisperer

    @glasswhisperer

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm doing a full watch though of TNG for the first time, watched voyager multiple times, shocked at how many I haven't actually seen before, had just heard of them. Kinda got bogged down in season 5. Need to get motivated to finish.

  • @bigfootwalker5399

    @bigfootwalker5399

    Жыл бұрын

    Season 7 is the best season

  • @bonghunezhou5051

    @bonghunezhou5051

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Bigfootwalker ...at least according to the Emmy voters who chose to nominate it for Best Dramatic Series - the only time a syndicated show has managed to snag such nomination. {I personally think it is a splendid season.}

  • @FordFourD-aka-Ford4D
    @FordFourD-aka-Ford4D Жыл бұрын

    This recaps / analysis videos gives me that *dopamine rush* of watching a season of TNG without the full time investment. _Thank You!_

  • @julianbermudez_415
    @julianbermudez_415 Жыл бұрын

    IM NOT PICARD !!! I’m getting that on a shirt

  • @Blanket000
    @Blanket000 Жыл бұрын

    "She went where..?" scene with the alert sound made my Friday morning. Also this feels like freebasing TNG, like watching a entire season and getting the good rush of it all in short form is so satisfying, especially in your voice.

  • @marshallhuffer4713
    @marshallhuffer4713 Жыл бұрын

    13:04 - Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner actually did their own dancing in the episode, except for the overhead shots where Spiner requested a double, as he did not feel confident enough to pull it off. McFadden did the choreography, as she was a well-known Hollywood choreographer long before TNG. According to episode director Robert Wiemer, McFadden and Spiner also developed the lines in the scene, which were later accepted by the scriptwriters.

  • @powerbadpowerbad

    @powerbadpowerbad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@subraxas I thought McFadden was-GORGEOUS-back then !!! LOL.

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 Жыл бұрын

    Season 4 had a lot of solid episodes that had long-term story repercussions 🥰

  • @himbourbanist
    @himbourbanist11 ай бұрын

    I love the holodeck episodes where they put on costumes and play Robin Hood and shit. It's like the crew got together for a D&D night

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    "Captain I protest. I am NOT a merry man!" Greatest Worf line of all time, and he has a lot of great lines.

  • @himbourbanist

    @himbourbanist

    3 ай бұрын

    using Worf for the occasional comic relief line was a genius writing move@@canalesworks1247

  • @mystuff8602
    @mystuff860211 ай бұрын

    "Do the spots go all the way down?" is a great pickup line

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: cosmic strings are actually totally unrelated to string theory, and IIRC predate it! It’s a hypothetical one-dimensional super-dense object, made entirely out of nucleons kinda like a neutron star. It’d be subatomic in width but light years long. I totally thought that episode meant string theory had been confirmed in TNG too until somewhat recently. So it’s 100% understandable. I don’t much like string theory either myself.

  • @antimatterhorn

    @antimatterhorn

    Жыл бұрын

    well, they're not totally unrelated, but one doesn't imply the other. the traditional hypothesis for how they might form involved topological defects that formed during the symmetry breaking phase of the very early universe, and then string theory posits a wholly different mechanism where fundamental strings become stretched to cosmological scales by inflation. but yes, these ideas were developed independently.

  • @onlyhereonceinlife

    @onlyhereonceinlife

    Жыл бұрын

    Definitely not related to cosmic filaments, that's a different Phenomenon

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    3 ай бұрын

    @@antimatterhorn right, I was specifically responding to Tyler saying the ship running into one means that string theory had been confirmed in the setting

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    3 ай бұрын

    @@onlyhereonceinlife I honestly can’t remember if they said filament or string in the actual episode, that’s just how Tyler said it in the video

  • @_Omega_Weapon
    @_Omega_Weapon Жыл бұрын

    "Night Terrors" scared the sh*t outta me when I first saw it at 9 or 10 years old. In "Galaxy's Child" Geordi's behavior was definitely inappropriate and unprofessional but I don't think it crossed the line into "predatory".

  • @saxondark
    @saxondark Жыл бұрын

    Another great video Tyler my fave line in The Wounded is where O'Brien says "I don't hate you Cardassian, I hate what you made me". Anyway hope you are well Tyler.

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Hope you're doing well too Saxon!

  • @saxondark

    @saxondark

    Жыл бұрын

    @@OrangeRiver I'm doing good Tyler one of my fave TNG 2 parter episodes was done between seasons 3 and 4 it was the finale of season 3 and episode 1 of season 4 Best Of Both Worlds parts 1&2

  • @jhonbus

    @jhonbus

    Жыл бұрын

    I loved the song from that episode that Miles sings with Captain Maxwell. I still sing it sometimes when I'm thinking about oxtails and cabbage.

  • @saxondark

    @saxondark

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jhonbus That's an old Irish traditional folk song so old the person who wrote the song to this day remains unknown. But I have managed to find out it's called The Minstrel Boy and was written by Irish poet and songwriter Thomas Moore and believed to be in remembrance of his friends who died in the Irish rebellion of 1798 back during the time of the Fenians here in Ireland one of the most famous of which was a man named Wolfe Tone

  • @DJToMyHits
    @DJToMyHits Жыл бұрын

    To be fair to the holodeck, Jordy had to break numerous restriction protocols to create the program. Personality and phycological files were directly called out as a problem to get initially.

  • @Draliseth

    @Draliseth

    Жыл бұрын

    *Geordi

  • @JacquesLapeyre
    @JacquesLapeyre Жыл бұрын

    In defense of Geordi he only asked the computer to make the simulated Leah Brahms more personable. My head canon has always been that the computer, which we know from the season seven episode Emergence is bordering on sentience, is, at some pre-conscious level, in love with Geordi and programed Leah Brahms accordingly. I hang this all on simulated Leah Brahms' line about touching the engine. That was the Enterprise ACTUALLY talking to Geordi.

  • @icantthinkofanything798

    @icantthinkofanything798

    Жыл бұрын

    That would make for a very very interesting premise

  • @ageamiu8923

    @ageamiu8923

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I like that headcannon. I‘ll adopt it.

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    Those are really good points.

  • @classic.cameras
    @classic.cameras Жыл бұрын

    SImply, Thank you for making this series.

  • @penguinmaster7
    @penguinmaster7 Жыл бұрын

    in Star Trek Online, the tutorial character Captain Taggart calls the player "number one" and says he served under a captain who called his first officer that "early in his career." in the episode The Host, Picard is contacted by an "Ensign Taggart", and while it's not directly confirmed, it's heavily implied that this is the same Taggart

  • @ClanOKeefe
    @ClanOKeefe Жыл бұрын

    First Contact and The Nth Degree are my absolute favorites from this season

  • @zEropoint68
    @zEropoint68 Жыл бұрын

    okay, but, so, here's the thing about booby trap and leah brahms. _it's the ship._ the enterprise is an incredibly advanced piece of technology that i'm sure has a whole lot of whatever kind of stuff makes chatGPT work, right? she's not a manifestation of leah brahms. she's a manifestation of _the ship._ the implication is that _the ship_ likes geordi.

  • @Clay3613

    @Clay3613

    Жыл бұрын

    Futurama did it later literally dating a ship.

  • @queenredspecial

    @queenredspecial

    3 ай бұрын

    That’s what makes it so romantic. 😊

  • @Clay3613
    @Clay3613 Жыл бұрын

    Geordi was doing nothing more than advanced roleplay and was clearly infatuated with Leah. You're right about this kind of stuff remaining private, people's often harmless yet highly embarrassing fantasies being weaponized for moral superiority.

  • @joshythehand2960

    @joshythehand2960

    11 ай бұрын

    But poor Geordi was almost like a red shirt light. The second you hear intruder alert I shout " oh no.. they're going to knock out geordi!" I can't count the times he gets knocked unconscious

  • @purefoldnz3070

    @purefoldnz3070

    3 ай бұрын

    how they broke his passcode for this program leahbrahms69, is beyond me.

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 Жыл бұрын

    “Half a Life” is by far the best Luwaxanna episode of the series (not that that is a huge accomplishment). Majel Barret really gave the character life, too. Just another great, relatively small detail, that helps make this show so great.

  • @Malkiore1
    @Malkiore1 Жыл бұрын

    lol when I was a kid I thought Tasha's sister was played by Linda Hamilton for the longest time till I re-watched the movie and was like "...wait a min". I ran around my school for like 3 years telling my friends that she was in an episode of Star Trek. -_-

  • @palmercolson7037

    @palmercolson7037

    Жыл бұрын

    The person who played Tasha's sister is Beth Toussaint. She is apparently not a relation to Linda Hamilton or her late twin sister. In the right timeline, they could have played on that lookalike status: have three of the same character show up and interact with each other; two sisters with one taller than the other. Toussaint is six years younger than Hamilton.

  • @powerbadpowerbad

    @powerbadpowerbad

    Жыл бұрын

    The actress who played Tasha's sister was-GORGEOUS !!! LOL.And had a very nice body.

  • @jhonbus

    @jhonbus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@powerbadpowerbad "My eyes are up here.... No, further up."

  • @Malkiore1

    @Malkiore1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@powerbadpowerbad lol yes I agree 100% and she still looks good Today.

  • @powerbadpowerbad

    @powerbadpowerbad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Malkiore1 She does ??? GOOD,you have to take care of your-TEMPLE-it's the only one you have.

  • @adrianfarrell8219
    @adrianfarrell8219 Жыл бұрын

    Not gonna lie my favorite bit was the twilight zone skit. Omg dude it made me laugh. Helped me get through washing the dishes.

  • @adrianfarrell8219

    @adrianfarrell8219

    Жыл бұрын

    Also gotta say this channel has become my background while sleeping or cleaning the house. I'll run through my own mental pictures of what he's talking about while it's playing. But I've had the best sleep lately

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate the warning to avoid the merch. Wouldn’t want to get trapped in the Twilight Zone just for a tshirt! ;)

  • @kryptikt
    @kryptikt Жыл бұрын

    I must say I am impressed at the rate at which you grown and developed as a writer and a performer over the last couple years I've followed you. I can't wait to see what you produce next. Keep it up!

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @biercenator
    @biercenator Жыл бұрын

    Comes through even without the cigarette and reveal. Well done.

  • @TimelyAbyss
    @TimelyAbyss Жыл бұрын

    “Devil’s Due” always sat weird with me as the tone seemed off but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Years later I learned it was originally written as a TOS episode with Kirk instead of Picard being the focus of the horny con-artist. The story makes SO much more sense knowing that.

  • @Redshirt434

    @Redshirt434

    Жыл бұрын

    With Data taking the role of the Enterprise computer.

  • @nealsterling8151

    @nealsterling8151

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, it was too much fun.

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Redshirt434 huh, really? And here I’d expected that was originally just gonna be Xon.

  • @jhonbus

    @jhonbus

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I've loved this episode since I first saw it as a kid. I suspect Ardra appealed to a then-unrevealed part of my nature 😂 I can't fathom why Star Trek _still_ hasn't done a musical episode when the sheer volume of courtroom episodes proves the show is not above doing theme eps.

  • @powerbadpowerbad

    @powerbadpowerbad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nealsterling8151 So true.That's what I liked about that episode.

  • @residentgrey
    @residentgrey Жыл бұрын

    The Data/Jenna episode features the actress who plays the wife of the main alien protagonist of Alien Nation, another series that deserves more exposure.

  • @MousePounder
    @MousePounder Жыл бұрын

    The only bad thing about this video is that it ended.

  • @worf7680
    @worf7680 Жыл бұрын

    LET'S GO I MADE THE THUMBNAIL! Mogh would be VERY honored!

  • @gtc9966
    @gtc9966 Жыл бұрын

    Great job as usual! I love ‘The Loss’ as well…so many good lines.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 Жыл бұрын

    25:37 This wouldn't have stopped RIker.

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    Imagine Riker's space STDs.

  • @davidbowman2716
    @davidbowman2716 Жыл бұрын

    Co-star Nick Tate in the Final Mission episode is none other than Eagle spacecraft Alan Carter from Space 1999.

  • @beezelbuzzel
    @beezelbuzzel Жыл бұрын

    Season 4 is probably my favorite TNG season. Family, and The Wounded are great . Also dude, my new Mass Effect style Orange River mug showed up this week. It's is a nice accompaniment to the OR Trek mug I bought last year. I'm firmly in The Twilight Zone!

  • @agoffgrid640
    @agoffgrid640 Жыл бұрын

    Very concise. Definitely flowed well. Ty and I can't wait for season 5

  • @va.melnyk
    @va.melnyk Жыл бұрын

    Just as I was rewatching this season, great timing! Thanks!

  • @averyandlukefuntimechannel5171
    @averyandlukefuntimechannel5171 Жыл бұрын

    Love these videos, I can't wait to see your breakdown of season 5!

  • @KingOfMadCows
    @KingOfMadCows Жыл бұрын

    They never actually confirmed that Duras killed K'Mpec. We just assume it was Duras because we know he's a sneaky bastard.

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    K’mpec is underrated as Klingon characters go, imo. Probably because we don’t see as much of him as Gowron. But he’s clearly very shrewd, albeit a bit lacking in ambition by the time we see him.

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    @@kaitlyn__L Well where was there for him to go? He was already leader of the council. Besides at the end he was too busy dying of that poison. I agree that he's an interesting character.

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    It was done with Duras' orders, but I'm pretty sure someone else actually did the deed. Duras was pretty cowardly.

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    3 ай бұрын

    @@canalesworks1247 of course the poison thing would’ve had to have not been written, once that had been said his fate was sealed. He’s an intelligent politician, and adept enough to live to be pretty old by Klingon standards. I would’ve liked to have seen his ruthless side a bit more.

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    @@kaitlyn__L The idea though of a fat Klingon. That means he didn't really keep up as a warrior. He would have been a guile based politician all along.

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield Жыл бұрын

    I can't believe it took until Season 4 to see the Jefferies tube which would later become ubiquitous in VOY!

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Жыл бұрын

    my fav question to ask people "what is the true nature of reality" is based on that episode in the pocket universe. :D

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    By now it’s become your own spin on it, as Beverly’s question to the computer says “the universe” :D (this isn’t a nerd nitpick, I just love the way memory works. It’s well-known that synonyms are spatially stored in neighbouring neurons!)

  • @DeconvertedMan

    @DeconvertedMan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kaitlyn__L "based on" :D

  • @CoinSlotKitty
    @CoinSlotKitty Жыл бұрын

    Im glad you went all the way with this episode

  • @uncledubpowermetal
    @uncledubpowermetal Жыл бұрын

    In The Loss: Everyone: "But.. aren't you half human?" Deanna: "How DARE you bring that up!!"

  • @canalesworks1247

    @canalesworks1247

    3 ай бұрын

    I love "Troi the bitch" episodes. She's fire in "Man of the People." If they had really wanted her to be sexy that should have had her wear regulation uniforms while on duty and then switch to that white number she had on when she was off duty. Getting to see Marina in videos at comic con etc it's obvious that the writing failed the actress way too often. She's quite the firecracker.

  • @3MenAndALetsPlay
    @3MenAndALetsPlay Жыл бұрын

    Another great video! I just finished TNG about a month ago after the last ep Paramount + threw me into voyager, this was very wonderful and almost a little nostalgic now that I am getting adjusted to the new crew of voyager. Thank you for your work and please keep doing your best.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Жыл бұрын

    I love the Twilight Zone ads you do for your merch. I may have to get a t-shirt or some such lol. Thank you for another excellent episode as always! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @sugartbube
    @sugartbube Жыл бұрын

    never realized the family theme of season 4. thank you!!!!

  • @rachelolvera9435
    @rachelolvera943511 ай бұрын

    I cried when O’Brien and captain maxwell were singing

  • @keffey99
    @keffey99 Жыл бұрын

    Haha. That episode with Leah Brahms is excellent.

  • @jhonbus
    @jhonbus Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video! I'd forgotten just how many absolute bangers there are in this season.

  • @shep9231
    @shep9231 Жыл бұрын

    These videos are always worth watching. especally TNG! :)

  • @seanmorgan2356
    @seanmorgan2356 Жыл бұрын

    Rod Sterling would be proud.

  • @TheEyez187
    @TheEyez187 Жыл бұрын

    22:20 - LMAO!! That bit nearly killed me as I coughed, choked, spluttered and spat my cup of tea!!🤣😝🤮

  • @menacelurkingyet8345

    @menacelurkingyet8345

    Жыл бұрын

    It had better have been Earl Grey tea! 😏

  • @jamesmc04
    @jamesmc04 Жыл бұрын

    I look forward very much to your reviews of TNG Seasons 5-7 (and possibly the films ?)

  • @robbicu
    @robbicu Жыл бұрын

    Don't you think we're missing a main point about personal holo-programs? Don't you think they'd be password protected by the creator? Barkley was extremely smart, and so was Jordi. I just can't see them leaving their holo-programs open for anyone to charge in.

  • @sly_botts1189
    @sly_botts1189 Жыл бұрын

    I've always remembered since I was a small child Data saying "Perhaps it is YOU!" and my brother and I would always exaggerate it in many different things as inside jokes when we were growing up. "YOU!"

  • @queenredspecial

    @queenredspecial

    3 ай бұрын

    Aaaaaaw!

  • @laioren
    @laioren Жыл бұрын

    12:20 elevates this work to the level of a masterpiece. Agreed on string theory.

  • @nunyabizness6595
    @nunyabizness6595 Жыл бұрын

    Great Serling imitation. Well done!

  • @monkeywrench2800
    @monkeywrench2800 Жыл бұрын

    Dude! Lookin sharp in a suit!! Awesome Sponsor Break! (lol)

  • @scoobiesnatches
    @scoobiesnatches Жыл бұрын

    Ambassador K'Ehleyr made 12 year old me realize I had a thing for Klingon women.

  • @ClanOKeefe

    @ClanOKeefe

    Жыл бұрын

    You have good taste

  • @queenredspecial

    @queenredspecial

    3 ай бұрын

    Well, as a hetero woman I have to say… She WAS amazing!

  • @commiecomrade2644
    @commiecomrade2644 Жыл бұрын

    Been waiting for DAYS for this!

  • @larryiscreating
    @larryiscreating Жыл бұрын

    Love these recaps. Thanks for the awesome work 🙏🏾

  • @kylesells8579
    @kylesells8579 Жыл бұрын

    Man, Guinan was so good.

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see you start doing videos on Stargate. I have always felt that it was very Star trek ds9 like just way lower tech.

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been thinking about Stargate! I haven't seen any of it but I have some vague thoughts on the universe. Maybe one day!

  • @chrisbullard5901
    @chrisbullard5901 Жыл бұрын

    “Night Terrors” and “Identity Crisis” are both stabs at horror. One works very well with the subtle horror cues from a stripped down script, while the other has its moments overshadowed by Guinan phaser rifles. Though “The Nth Degree” is a great one, if only to show the cliquey, shallow, and insecure nature of the Enterprise senior staff. I mean seriously, there’s a way to handle “Phenomenon” Barclay without the Eric Clapton song, and still not squash his human rights as you protect the security of the ship.

  • @st.anselmsfire3547
    @st.anselmsfire3547 Жыл бұрын

    "Sir, I wasn't sure about the name on the file. What does, 'Geordi's Spank Bank' mean?"

  • @julianbermudez_415
    @julianbermudez_415 Жыл бұрын

    Forgot to say, but those “Family” based episodes hit the best

  • @hartman.4744
    @hartman.4744 Жыл бұрын

    I was waiting for "all the way". Thanks. 👍

  • @XxPunxunite
    @XxPunxunite Жыл бұрын

    That twilight zone merch ad 😂

  • @Sephex
    @Sephex Жыл бұрын

    As always, love to see your take on TNG seasons..You do a good job highlighting strengths while being fairly critical with the lows. Also, without doing the cliched snide tone that some KZreadrs do a little too much! 😅

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha thanks Sephex!

  • @jonathan_rosa
    @jonathan_rosa11 ай бұрын

    so good! (and i'll never forget the first time I saw "Identity Crisis")

  • @Xan3119
    @Xan3119 Жыл бұрын

    Buddy your ad was as good as the video LOL thank you man do you make my day much better

  • @adamrenfrow
    @adamrenfrow11 ай бұрын

    They really made Geordi a creep in Galaxies Child.

  • @AB-jt6ic
    @AB-jt6ic Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the recaps.

  • @sgt.tattoo9609
    @sgt.tattoo9609 Жыл бұрын

    I love the twilight zone and star trek musical combo. Great job.

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Жыл бұрын

    Galaxys child is great! Poor Geordi cant get a break when it comes to women. He treated the real thing as if she was the hologram, confusing the two in his mind, as such his behavor is on point. He strugles to seperate the two in his mind, knowing one is made up, the other is not, but wanting to know the real one more - he tured off the fake, knowing it was fake, knowing that yeah he fell in partly love, but in love with a made up being, he wanted the real one - because he respected her work, and perhaps part of him still felt that connection, however illogical. The dang thing seemed real. The real one was taken. OR so she said... maybe she wasnt or maybe she breaks it off latter? I'd rather have seen that she wasnt taken and open to getting to know each other for real, but first she gets some light hearted `revenge' by programing Geordi in the holodeck getting a pie in the face - only to have the real Geordi get a pie in the face for real - two pies in face for the price of one, plus you could have Data say "3.14...." whatever pi is as Geordi mentions pie latter and the episode faids off as he just lets Data say pi wondering if he will ever stop. Hahahhahahahahaha! oh well. anyway. Good ep in my view and people are a bunch of complaners these days I swear. not that I dont complain about things, I do - but see when I do it, its fine.

  • @AbigatorM

    @AbigatorM

    Жыл бұрын

    i mean xD kinda great anology to todays para social behaviour to content creator xD It holds up well.

  • @bmatt2626
    @bmatt2626 Жыл бұрын

    Always awkward when your crush meets your robot crush.

  • @Newbobdole
    @Newbobdole11 ай бұрын

    Glad someone else appreciates what "The Loss" was trying to do "Clues" has the hottest two-episode-helm-Ensign in the whole fleet in Ensign McKnight with her Thomas Jefferson hairdo

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 Жыл бұрын

    Barkley is the best accidental character is Trek history. Props to Dwight Shultz for making me feel like I know the guy. Incredible arc too, all the way up through “Voyager”.

  • @mb2000
    @mb2000 Жыл бұрын

    27:48 Does Data actually keep Spot in a bag!? I don’t think he’d react like that if Spot didn’t have a bag…

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    I love that interpretation lol. Over-earnest possible answer: some cats do prefer empty bags over empty boxes 🤔

  • @jhonbus

    @jhonbus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kaitlyn__L I had a cat who would get inside plastic bags and start licking the plastic if I left one on the floor.

  • @Ki_Adi_Mundi
    @Ki_Adi_Mundi Жыл бұрын

    5:36 If this boy was adopted by the Talerians then my great uncle was also adopted by the Vietcong during the Vietnam war. They literally murdered his parents and kidnapped him during a raid on a human outpost. He's a POW, and the fact that his grandmother is an admiral should mean that this incident starts another war with them. _He doesn't even consult her before he hands her grandson back off to the barbarians that brainwashed him and ruined her and many others' families..._

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 Жыл бұрын

    Everyone: Worf! You killed Duras!!!😮 Now Gowron is head of the council!! Worf: don’t worry. I’ll kill him later.

  • @jamesgoss1860
    @jamesgoss1860 Жыл бұрын

    Identity Crisis, the first Brannon Braga episode. And it's one of the quintessential Braga episodes at that, touching on tropes he would revisit again. *Cough cough Threshold*

  • @patgrondin5358
    @patgrondin5358 Жыл бұрын

    The Orange River style is so outstanding in presentation and delivery. Another outstanding study of our favorite (or one of) universe. Thanks Tyler. Oh and just fyi I'm really not a merch guy, but the Rod Serling bit has earned a you a Tshirt sale. I just gotta choose one. ONE, lol. I'm sorry. It's a crap economy out there, but your work helps and is worth it.

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @moxxy3565
    @moxxy356511 ай бұрын

    Lol :28 looks like the beginning of a bad 80s workout video with the music

  • @OdariArt
    @OdariArt Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! I enjoyed Season 4 myself. Like wine, it got better with time. Thanks, Tyler 🖖

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Odari!

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan Жыл бұрын

    Clues is really a great episode.

  • @utterlee
    @utterlee Жыл бұрын

    Remember Me, one of the all time great episodes.

  • @joeedh
    @joeedh Жыл бұрын

    Levar Burton recently said in an interview that he hated the creepy way Geordi LeForge was written in Galaxy's Child and it's antecedent episode. He said Le Forge's inability to have healthy romantic relationships in TNG is why he demanded his character be written to have a family with kids in Picard season 3.

  • @sly_botts1189

    @sly_botts1189

    Жыл бұрын

    I did notice after recently watching that his issues with women seem very "out of character" when compared to his personality in all other areas. But it was kind of funny how bad he was with women. Sadly some people really do have such difficulties.

  • @limalepakko6074

    @limalepakko6074

    10 ай бұрын

    I think he was written to be kinda annoying in that show as well, he was kinda shitty to one of his daughters for not picking the same career as him, wtf

  • @colinleat8309
    @colinleat8309 Жыл бұрын

    I disagree with your statement on "The Loss" being a good example of disability being portrayed thoughtfully. Diana's reaction was like that of a spoiled brat, or " Aristocratic" as Riker said. She acted selfishly as if she alone understand what it's like to suffer. As a Counselor I would have expected her to behave with others in a much more mature and dignified way. I don't mean to detract from the pain she was going through, but I think the writers REALLY dropped the ball on that one. I've always held the highest respect for her character. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    I think that's valid--I almost included a sentence about Riker's "aristocratic" line because I think it's VERY key to understanding the episode. Honestly what impressed me most about this episode is not Deanna's behavior per se--she did act like a spoiled brat--but that it cleared the low bar of the first two seasons so un-seriously exploring certain aspects of the human condition IMO. That is to say, her yelling at Beverly and Will showed she was very very flawed :0

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    @subraxas Yep, Deanna's definitely a nepotism hire 😂

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    @@subraxas what I find interesting is she SAYS she can’t do her job, and there’s one scene with the recurring patient which seems to confirm that… but then we see Guinan’s talk with her, and the patient comes back to say her insights were right after all. As in she is perfectly capable of doing it, and it’s more just she lost some of her confidence. But the first half of that is a lot more memorable than the second half, so we all remember “I can’t do it without my empathy!”

  • @kaitlyn__L

    @kaitlyn__L

    Жыл бұрын

    That episode is Marmite-divisive among disabled Trekkies. I’ve read many essays falling on both sides, and they all have good points. The execution fumbles in a bunch of ways, but also captures some truths about adjusting to a new diagnosis. I fall on finding it mostly cliched and flawed, but I can understand how some disabled people see themselves in the narrative. I don’t know what’s more divisive, _The Loss_ or _Melora._ Though at least _Melora_ was written by a disabled person, while AFAICT _The Loss_ wasn’t. Not that that helps improve the consistency of response, as we’re far from a monolith.

  • @queenredspecial
    @queenredspecial3 ай бұрын

    I love "Nth Degree" SO much!!!!!! Dwight Schulz is fantastic, and he does the illuminated Barclay with such flare!

  • @keffey99
    @keffey99 Жыл бұрын

    Good season. Thanks for the memories. :)

  • @CHUCKSCHUMACHER
    @CHUCKSCHUMACHER Жыл бұрын

    I feel such a nostalgia for TNG as I've been seeing it my whole life. I'm in my 30s so .. The way call of duty mountain dew and Doritos go together, For me it's: TNG, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Metallica! That's just the way my nostalgia triggers 😎

  • @ogs_Boga1900

    @ogs_Boga1900

    Жыл бұрын

    Like pizza and beer 🍺

  • @jymfysher7704
    @jymfysher77045 ай бұрын

    Always love your uncanny ROD SERLING impersonations.Certainly you have similar voices and your acting and added suit and tie all shot in black and white are a real treat to behold.For some odd reason I am beginning to save my meager funds to purchase some of that ORANGE RIVER merchandise to see if it truely does leed me to the TWILIGHT ZONE !

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 Жыл бұрын

    “Remember Me” isn’t just the best Dr. Crusher episode (I also like “Suspicions”), it’s an all time great episode overall.

  • @ClintSprayberry
    @ClintSprayberry Жыл бұрын

    AHHHHHHHHH YEEEEAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

  • @shakestheclone1995
    @shakestheclone1995 Жыл бұрын

    8:52 💪🏾 I love it when you bring the funny. You’re good at it.

  • @totalCoolerUsername
    @totalCoolerUsername Жыл бұрын

    Again you make me curious if you've got a background in science and if so what specific :D I'm a real geek regarding physics and biology and your descriptions are pretty up to date, accurate and well articulated; you eclipse quite a lot other scifi-channels regarding this

  • @OrangeRiver

    @OrangeRiver

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha nope, just a film degree!

  • @LordTalax
    @LordTalax Жыл бұрын

    Sela seemed like an odd character. If the timeline went back the way it was, Yar died from Armus and there would be no daughter.

  • @Raphmatic5000
    @Raphmatic5000 Жыл бұрын

    I watched The Booby Trap and Galaxy's Child as they aired, I was 6 and 7 years old respectively. I definitely got why Leah was mad, even at that young age, but I never saw malice in what Geordi did. 30+ years later, I generally think the same thing, but I think Geordi's reaction is for sure wrong, and his expectations of what Leah would be like remind me of modern parasocial relationships people have with celebrities or KZreadrs/Twitch Streamers. Your mental image of the person isn't necessarily the person is. I sympathize for LeVar Burton, I would feel awkward having to play that version of Geordi, and I'm glad that slowly started to phase out the "bad with women" Geordi. These two episodes are still sentimental favorites because I really like the character of Leah Brahms and Susan Gibney, but the writing for sure doesn't hold up at all.

  • @nostrum6410
    @nostrum6410 Жыл бұрын

    pretty sure Geordi mentioned he was married to her in picard aswell

  • @binaryghosts5131
    @binaryghosts513111 ай бұрын

    Honestly the way the hologram talks about the engines in relation to herself id be more concerned that Geordi is rubbing up agains the warp core. Whipping out his conduit and venting his plasma all over the dilithium crystals.

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