That was rough, but for me, the bit that got me was that moment, right after the timeline corrected itself, as our historian steadies himself back in the corrected timeline.
I always look at the run time on this series and think to myself "that feels way too long", but then I watch them and it never is. Youre a great storyteller, Steve.
That shot with "Have I ever been tempted to change history myself?" Steve this was supposed to be silly funny now I'm crying 😭 I'm aromantic, so not THAT hard, but still!
The care and attention you put into these Star Fleet Jobs pieces is amazing. This was funny, thoughtful, sad. A tour de force in 26 minutes and 47 seconds. You are so fully invested in your character. The phone call with your exes in particular was so real. Bravo!
Damn, Steve, I think this is your best one yet. I found it to be both funny and poignant in a wonderful combination. I'm so glad you're still doing these.
While my favorite of your Starfleet profession videos will always be the Union Representative, this is probably the best video. Excellently done, doctor.
Realizing that the captain disabled the temporal shielding not only to reset the interviewer's memory, but his own, so he wouldn't have to face remembering an alternate history where he didn't divorce...
That's an incredibly thoughtful catch and elevates my appreciation for this even more. I had interpreted that section completely differently. Thank you for giving me a brand new perspective upon rewatch and pointing out how much more elevated this is (despite thinking it was already pinnacle) in every aspect. This comment is/was a service. May your timeline be kind to you fellow traveler.
A fun little thing... The bell riots were a TART that was caused by a Kingdom stubbing her toe on a time crystal which set back fashion for centuries until it was fixed. They never happened in the unaltered timeline.
I was expecting this to finally explain why the Starfleet Academy curriculum apparently drills cadets exclusively on the adventures of four ships and one space station in incredibly minute detail.
THANK YOU for doing another Starfleet job. I adore these skits. I often have to watch them repeatedly to get all the layers you've written into them. I'm not as sharp as I used to be. :) I really want to pay you some money in appreciation, but I can't afford food for all this month. Thanks again!
If I'm recalling correctly, they were worried that the parasite treatment would be fatal to Archer. It's funny to think that it didn't "work" after all and ended up just being vaporization with extra steps.
I believe this was your best one Steve. I’ve enjoyed all your skits regarding departments we don’t deep dive into in Star Trek, but this one tugged on the heart strings. That call……man 😢
Steve has done this for both of my professions, studied history in college and am a union representative. Great combination of both careers in these videos.
Wow, @steveshives. You've outdone yourself on this one! Your performance is outstanding but I have to give you some flowers on what must have been a challenging and thoughtful bit of script writing. Deeply impressed at the way you've tied up the Retro Reviews on alt timelines, the political malaise many of us are feeling at the outcome of the election, and this frequently hysterical series on Starfleet jobs.
I have been lurking on your channel (and contributions elsewhere) diligently for several solar rotations and scouring the backvault just as thoroughly, yet never officiated from overprotectiveness to my precious 'recommended' on this platform. Consider that resolved, well earned, and long overdue. Thanks for everything Steve.
still one of my favorite star treks this century -the background looks particularly good this episode, i think the dodgy wig helps (the wig is perfect, looks very next-gen s1-3) and the shakycam really sells both the background and the documentary format... that must have taken a lot of effort, and i appreciate the work and the way you've clearly prioritized script over effects and improved production values over time. i look forward to seeing the next one ;)
I've been watching you for 7 or 8 years now and have always been thoroughly engaged and entertained. I find your views on Trek align mostly with my own, and well-reasoned and explained when they don't. You've often swayed me to a new point of view. I've never been emotionally touched by any of your videos until today. My marriage ended about a year ago, and I've been feeling rudderless and mired in the past since. That one-sided call in the middle of the video absolutely broke me. I'm still wiping tears from my cheeks. The rest of your video has made me want to reconsider how I think about where I'm at now in life, and where I can go in the future. Thank you for the epiphany and just thank you in general for existing, Mr. Shives.
Di...did you just drop lore into this series? Do these historians get infused with E;-Aurian DNA? Guinan has been the most prominent example of someone noticing a temporal shift of reality due to timey-wimey shenanigans (and yes, I am aware I'm mixing my sci-fi references, and you know what?! I. Don't. Care. lol)
@@purplenanite the idea that the 32nd century Federation finally bent its genetic-engineering laws to allow super-committed historians the chance to study meta-history is fascinating tbh. An extra layer on top of the millennium-old temporal shielding.
"But which timeline are we talking about? The Kelvin timeline or the Prime timeline?..... Oh, how do we know those timelines exist and we know their names? Funny story...."
You know for a guy who doesn't like obsessing over continuity stuff. These little shirts do a good job maintaining continuity stuff. The Tarragrade DNA for example.
To me working on such a place would truly be the dream. Not because of the monitoring aspect. I just think that it would allow any given historian to aquire knowledge about the influence of singular events in opposition to the general trends of history. Since I'm mostly working on the history of earth before the 21st century I would of course not be able to use the information to this facility and I could never publish my papers anyway due to confindality. On longer thought good to be still on the University of Lunar. At least in this timeline.
@@loorthedarkelf8353 Yeah but I´m talking from the perspective of a real life historian. Whos job it is to ponder about what has happened in the past everyday. It´s kinda my job ;)
Or "The Architect" - Hitler was quite ill at ease drawing humans and mostly draw deserted town views, although of a rather stiff "traditional" style. I see improbable for him to get in into an art academy, being unable to draw people one big handicap, but he could have gone somewhere in architecture... if he managed to integrate some modernism features.
This was so good Steve! I just finished reading/listening to 11/22/63. So this was spot on for me. I want to say more but I don’t wanna give away spoilers for a book from 2011. But that made me cry, and you almost made me cry today. But more importantly, you made me think, as you always do!
This was one disturbingly comedic Heart breaking shot about how to Deal with This Moment in time and live in IT. And a cathedral Style complex telling that everyone can Change the course of History. I think i am gonna cry Form the Rest of the week thinking about it. Thanks.
I had a roommate who excitedly told me one day he'd invented a time machine and gone back and killed Jacques Bonaparte. I didn't know who that was, he said it was some French guy from the 1940's who was responsible for starting a war that killed nearly 80,000 people all told. He opened up a history book to see what changes he'd made. Seemed kind-of distraught after reading it. He went back to his time machine saying he'd "fix it" a few times after that. Then he'd look at the book and get even more upset each time. Eventually he destroyed the machine and switched his major to Botany. Haven't heard from him in a while.
I wonder if the various xenophobic one star system aliens we encounter through the various seasons of the franchise do so because they can temporally shield themselves and keep their own existences preserved like the Memory Omega archive.
Here I was all prepared for another interesting examination and hilarious gag filled Starfleet profession interview, and instead I had my heart broken. Well done.
"I don't think I've got the legs to pull this off" made me laugh way too hard. The little call was lovely, and this whole video was excellent! Bravo sir, bravo!
The hardest thing for me if I were assigned as a Mathematician / Temporal Physicist to Memory Omega would be the knowledge that we _can_ go back in time and change history, _objectively_ for the better-Janeway did it, Pike did it, Flu'ro did it. The Romulans had perfected the methods by the 25th century and Temporal Affairs had perfected the theory by the 27th. We *know* where we can make alterations and the full results of those alterations. Across all possible worldlines, we'e mapped out _precisely_ which ones have the least suffering and the most prosperity, not just for Terrans, but for all sapient life. And yet, because of treaties-or maybe because of the entrenched interests of those in power-our mission is to maintain _their_ status quo. That would eat at me.
The reason time travel was banned was the Temporal Cold War (which briefly flared into an active war) that formed part of the Enterprise plotlines. While some cultures are considerate of others, and want the best for everybody, there will always be some who only care for their own advancement.
@@Kartissa That's the stated reason, yes. But it seems a little too convenient. Think about all the lives lost during The Burn. It's hard to imagine that _any_ signatory to the treaty wouldn't agree to an exception to mitigating or even preventing that massive, galaxy-spanning tragedy.
Hey Steve, just wanted to let you know that your videos give me a smile in these rough times (No pun intended). Whether it's a dissection of Trek lore or a video talking about the craziness of the country, I always feel at least a little better on the other side of one of your videos. Thanks for what you do, man. You are appreciated.
Hi Steve, Of all the things your clever brain cooks up, these are my favorite Amuse Bouches (should be Oreilles). Thanks for the smiles, laughs, and insights. Loved how you slipped and old costume in there and made it fit into the narrative. Enjoy the Holdays Jacques Mexico.
I love Steve's "Starfleet profession" sketches 🤣 The Starfleet Chaplain video slayed me.
Starfleet lawyer was so funny!
That call broke my heart. Well done.
Right?? My jaw hung open for a bit
That was rough, but for me, the bit that got me was that moment, right after the timeline corrected itself, as our historian steadies himself back in the corrected timeline.
And the historian had to hold it together and not reveal how much he was hurting. That was gut-wrenching.
I always look at the run time on this series and think to myself "that feels way too long", but then I watch them and it never is. Youre a great storyteller, Steve.
Weird, i always go for the long ones and skip over the ones that look too short.
This is the first ever thing about Star Trek and time travel that makes sense. Thank you, Steve!
Yup
There would also be way WAY fewer Half-Klingon Half-Grumpafluxions running around. Dragor the lustfull was pushing peace for very specific reasons.
That shot with "Have I ever been tempted to change history myself?" Steve this was supposed to be silly funny now I'm crying 😭 I'm aromantic, so not THAT hard, but still!
The care and attention you put into these Star Fleet Jobs pieces is amazing. This was funny, thoughtful, sad. A tour de force in 26 minutes and 47 seconds.
You are so fully invested in your character. The phone call with your exes in particular was so real.
Bravo!
Dang, with that runtime its a bottle episode!
The phone call with the exes broke my heart!
Damn, Steve, I think this is your best one yet. I found it to be both funny and poignant in a wonderful combination. I'm so glad you're still doing these.
Agreed best one yet.
Couldn't say it better myself, so I shall just echo your sentiment. EXCELLENT WORK!
The skant really is a commitment to the bit.
He wears it really well.
Where do you even get your hands on a skant? Asking for a friend 😜
Came for the jokes, stayed for the meditation on linear existence
Steve rocking the skant like it’s 2364.
The pips all being junior grade is a nice touch!
If The Starfleet Historian ever started a podcast or narrated his own audiobook, I'd so be there for it!
"Most dogs" 💀
"Ruh roh"
While my favorite of your Starfleet profession videos will always be the Union Representative, this is probably the best video.
Excellently done, doctor.
"Most dogs can't talk?" Tell that to MY dogs!
My husky is mouthing off at that incorrect statement
husky talk
This may be Steve's best video that never happened.
Just as I was about to stop doom scrolling, this gem popped up.
Realizing that the captain disabled the temporal shielding not only to reset the interviewer's memory, but his own, so he wouldn't have to face remembering an alternate history where he didn't divorce...
That's an incredibly thoughtful catch and elevates my appreciation for this even more. I had interpreted that section completely differently. Thank you for giving me a brand new perspective upon rewatch and pointing out how much more elevated this is (despite thinking it was already pinnacle) in every aspect.
This comment is/was a service. May your timeline be kind to you fellow traveler.
He had the DNA treatment so they didn't reset for him, much in the same way that he was aware of the fashion change when it happened to him.
Man, this series is among your finest work, Steve.
This had all the best flourishes of the history professors I knew at univery, patient yet with a deep backstory that a few pints would bring out.
All I want to know is, who went back and stopped the Bell riots?
Definitely a Romulan. Who also messed with the Irish Reunification
A fun little thing... The bell riots were a TART that was caused by a Kingdom stubbing her toe on a time crystal which set back fashion for centuries until it was fixed. They never happened in the unaltered timeline.
All incoming interns and ensigns to Memory Omega are tasked to the Janeway Temporal Affairs Department.
Lmfao 😂😂😂😂.
Now that's a hazing
I was expecting this to finally explain why the Starfleet Academy curriculum apparently drills cadets exclusively on the adventures of four ships and one space station in incredibly minute detail.
That would be the Starfleet History Professor.
THANK YOU for doing another Starfleet job. I adore these skits. I often have to watch them repeatedly to get all the layers you've written into them. I'm not as sharp as I used to be. :)
I really want to pay you some money in appreciation, but I can't afford food for all this month.
Thanks again!
Love these sketches, so many amazing little details
I didn't realize until after the second time shift that Stance was back with his partners in the brief timeline change... God that's heartbreaking...
Took me a second to figure out if he had two partners, or if, due to alternate timelines, had two different partners that swapped back and forth
24:14 the idea that the parasites would’ve died naturally anyways in that dumbass Enterprise episode is hilarious to me 😂
If I'm recalling correctly, they were worried that the parasite treatment would be fatal to Archer. It's funny to think that it didn't "work" after all and ended up just being vaporization with extra steps.
I believe this was your best one Steve. I’ve enjoyed all your skits regarding departments we don’t deep dive into in Star Trek, but this one tugged on the heart strings. That call……man 😢
0:30 He is the happiest man from the Navy
I can't even imagine what Star Trek would be like without the Grumpafluxians. Good thing that Klimydia was cured.
Steve has done this for both of my professions, studied history in college and am a union representative. Great combination of both careers in these videos.
Wow, @steveshives. You've outdone yourself on this one! Your performance is outstanding but I have to give you some flowers on what must have been a challenging and thoughtful bit of script writing. Deeply impressed at the way you've tied up the Retro Reviews on alt timelines, the political malaise many of us are feeling at the outcome of the election, and this frequently hysterical series on Starfleet jobs.
You bastard. You just wanted to get in a Back To The Future joke!
This is such an interesting, distanced approach to time travel fiction and so well done. You could develop this into full on novel, if you cared to.
This is your best sketch yet. Love them
I have been lurking on your channel (and contributions elsewhere) diligently for several solar rotations and scouring the backvault just as thoroughly, yet never officiated from overprotectiveness to my precious 'recommended' on this platform. Consider that resolved, well earned, and long overdue. Thanks for everything Steve.
still one of my favorite star treks this century
-the background looks particularly good this episode, i think the dodgy wig helps (the wig is perfect, looks very next-gen s1-3) and the shakycam really sells both the background and the documentary format... that must have taken a lot of effort, and i appreciate the work and the way you've clearly prioritized script over effects and improved production values over time.
i look forward to seeing the next one ;)
I've been watching you for 7 or 8 years now and have always been thoroughly engaged and entertained. I find your views on Trek align mostly with my own, and well-reasoned and explained when they don't. You've often swayed me to a new point of view. I've never been emotionally touched by any of your videos until today. My marriage ended about a year ago, and I've been feeling rudderless and mired in the past since. That one-sided call in the middle of the video absolutely broke me. I'm still wiping tears from my cheeks. The rest of your video has made me want to reconsider how I think about where I'm at now in life, and where I can go in the future. Thank you for the epiphany and just thank you in general for existing, Mr. Shives.
Di...did you just drop lore into this series? Do these historians get infused with E;-Aurian DNA? Guinan has been the most prominent example of someone noticing a temporal shift of reality due to timey-wimey shenanigans (and yes, I am aware I'm mixing my sci-fi references, and you know what?! I. Don't. Care. lol)
my guess is the tardigrade from discovery
Or Doctor Soran, who kept trying to manipulate space and time itself to bend to his vain will 😶
I always thought Guinan's perception came from being partially in the Nexus, rather than as a result of her race.
@@purplenanite the idea that the 32nd century Federation finally bent its genetic-engineering laws to allow super-committed historians the chance to study meta-history is fascinating tbh. An extra layer on top of the millennium-old temporal shielding.
You are so good at this! Thank you
These mocumentary style skits you're producing are so hilarious I needed to grab my inhaler 😂
So, I thought you were gonna be a therapist to time-displaced officers (or individuals), but you've already done therapist. I loved this one!
Don't worry dude, you definitely have the legs for the skant.
This is a really cool sci-fi idea, honestly. Could make a whole season or two based on it. Nice work, Steve ❤
I *love* these. They're hilarious, moving and thought-provoking. You're a smart and talented fellow, Mr. Shives.
I'm very wrapped up in the relationship drama.
"But which timeline are we talking about? The Kelvin timeline or the Prime timeline?..... Oh, how do we know those timelines exist and we know their names? Funny story...."
You know for a guy who doesn't like obsessing over continuity stuff. These little shirts do a good job maintaining continuity stuff. The Tarragrade DNA for example.
Hmm giant tardigrades, yep that's some good DNA right there.
El-Aurians are the ones that can sense timeline changes tho. To be fair, Steve could do a pretty good Paul Stamets if he was blond.
I was gonna post a time traveling joke, but you didn't really like it all that much.
Steve’s new Star Trek costume just came in the mail, time for a new Starfleet small job vid.
Steve-you’re so good at doing this! Your comic timing is superb and the content you develop for these is just incredible! Proud to support you
I truly enjoy these series. They put a story behind the story. Thank you Steve
To me working on such a place would truly be the dream. Not because of the monitoring aspect. I just think that it would allow any given historian to aquire knowledge about the influence of singular events in opposition to the general trends of history.
Since I'm mostly working on the history of earth before the 21st century I would of course not be able to use the information to this facility and I could never publish my papers anyway due to confindality.
On longer thought good to be still on the University of Lunar. At least in this timeline.
As the man said, all we have is this moment.
@@loorthedarkelf8353 Yeah but I´m talking from the perspective of a real life historian. Whos job it is to ponder about what has happened in the past everyday. It´s kinda my job ;)
This video was great, Steve. I hope you'll keep making more videos with this character in the future!
temperal tomfoolery... so that is why my head has been spinning since the election.
Definitely blew my mind on what job you’d pick 🤯.
The punchline for the joke should've been the other scientist saying "The painter?"
Or "The Architect" - Hitler was quite ill at ease drawing humans and mostly draw deserted town views, although of a rather stiff "traditional" style.
I see improbable for him to get in into an art academy, being unable to draw people one big handicap, but he could have gone somewhere in architecture... if he managed to integrate some modernism features.
Dude killed Baby Hitler, so he never got to become a painter
I think you missed what the joke was.
If he was killed as a baby then he never would have become a painter, so that punchline doesn't work.
I was half asleep commenting this and was thinking of a different joke I heard a while back with a similar premise.
Brilliance on top of brilliance. 😂 Well done!
This was so good Steve! I just finished reading/listening to 11/22/63. So this was spot on for me. I want to say more but I don’t wanna give away spoilers for a book from 2011. But that made me cry, and you almost made me cry today. But more importantly, you made me think, as you always do!
This was one disturbingly comedic Heart breaking shot about how to Deal with This Moment in time and live in IT. And a cathedral Style complex telling that everyone can Change the course of History.
I think i am gonna cry Form the Rest of the week thinking about it.
Thanks.
I had a roommate who excitedly told me one day he'd invented a time machine and gone back and killed Jacques Bonaparte. I didn't know who that was, he said it was some French guy from the 1940's who was responsible for starting a war that killed nearly 80,000 people all told. He opened up a history book to see what changes he'd made. Seemed kind-of distraught after reading it.
He went back to his time machine saying he'd "fix it" a few times after that. Then he'd look at the book and get even more upset each time. Eventually he destroyed the machine and switched his major to Botany. Haven't heard from him in a while.
Oooo this is very "Scranton reality anchor". This division of Starfleet just a cover for the SCP foundation.
I wonder if the various xenophobic one star system aliens we encounter through the various seasons of the franchise do so because they can temporally shield themselves and keep their own existences preserved like the Memory Omega archive.
Damn, that call.
This is the best one of these yet.
Lovely. Good work, thank you.
This series is your best work!
Here I was all prepared for another interesting examination and hilarious gag filled Starfleet profession interview, and instead I had my heart broken. Well done.
I did not guess historian.
Nor did I
Me neither
Y'all did in the original timeline, though.
The marriage bit made me smile 🙂 I also love the name of the station Memory Omega. All ST nerds should appreciate that
This is easily the best of this series
"I don't think I've got the legs to pull this off" made me laugh way too hard.
The little call was lovely, and this whole video was excellent! Bravo sir, bravo!
The hardest thing for me if I were assigned as a Mathematician / Temporal Physicist to Memory Omega would be the knowledge that we _can_ go back in time and change history, _objectively_ for the better-Janeway did it, Pike did it, Flu'ro did it.
The Romulans had perfected the methods by the 25th century and Temporal Affairs had perfected the theory by the 27th. We *know* where we can make alterations and the full results of those alterations.
Across all possible worldlines, we'e mapped out _precisely_ which ones have the least suffering and the most prosperity, not just for Terrans, but for all sapient life.
And yet, because of treaties-or maybe because of the entrenched interests of those in power-our mission is to maintain _their_ status quo.
That would eat at me.
The reason time travel was banned was the Temporal Cold War (which briefly flared into an active war) that formed part of the Enterprise plotlines.
While some cultures are considerate of others, and want the best for everybody, there will always be some who only care for their own advancement.
@@Kartissa That's the stated reason, yes. But it seems a little too convenient. Think about all the lives lost during The Burn. It's hard to imagine that _any_ signatory to the treaty wouldn't agree to an exception to mitigating or even preventing that massive, galaxy-spanning tragedy.
This is my favourite 'Starfleet job' video yet! Well done, Steve. 😀
Hey Steve, just wanted to let you know that your videos give me a smile in these rough times (No pun intended).
Whether it's a dissection of Trek lore or a video talking about the craziness of the country, I always feel at least a little better on the other side of one of your videos.
Thanks for what you do, man. You are appreciated.
Hi Steve, Of all the things your clever brain cooks up, these are my favorite Amuse Bouches (should be Oreilles). Thanks for the smiles, laughs, and insights. Loved how you slipped and old costume in there and made it fit into the narrative. Enjoy the Holdays Jacques Mexico.
always love these little vignettes
An excellent piece of science fiction writing.
most excellent. thank you
Your Starfleet profession sketches are great. I love imagining potential deep Star Trek lore :)
Loved it!
This is hilarious! This should be official STAR TREK canon. Right here.
That's such a fun idea for a character and then such a left hook right after, amazing work
Wow Steve, this is such a wonderful, lovely example of what fanfiction as a medium is capable of. Really on point and really quite moving!
Love the wig. And the Back to the Future references. Great stuff Steve!
OMG another 10/10. Thats two in a row. Love it! ❤
That profile shot certainly shows that Steve has what it takes to pull off a skant!
Absolutely brilliant. Amazing writing and performance.
Thank you for this, Steve.
This was really beautiful, actually.
Great video.
Timing on lost my marriage riff was perfect
Great work, Steve.
YARG NEW JOB!!
These sketches man, where are these shows that I want so much that you were just doing and doing so well
I love this series!
That is some excellent storytelling right there...
Memory Omega - nice.
I havent watched one of your videos for a while mate but this peaked my interest
Bloody brilliant
You wrote a hell of a script!
Loved every second
I always love your stuff. Keep going.