Lmao, ‘method’ alone and I’m dying. Champion reply. 👏🙌😂 Weird Fact- Many years ago I was attending a feline convention. (Feline behavioral consultant, hence my attendance.) By chance I met the last surviving ‘Spot’ and even trainer fully admitted she was “surly”. To put it kindly. As were the other littermates/parents/grandparents that were used, depending on what was needed for a scene. If more than one was on set, they had to go to great lengths to insure none crossed the others path. (Much like ‘Eddy’ from ‘Frazier’. The bulk of the scenes involved a grandfather, father, and son who looked so much alike they too were easily switched out without the audience noticing. All three hated each other so much their trainers had to fully clean that one chair. Because if one smelled the other, that scene wasn’t happening that day. They have a hilarious backstory and the actors can be found on TH-cam telling everyone what a nightmare they were at times. 🐶😻🤣)
That's amazing. Not the quote, but that Terry Pratchett came up with that! I would have thought it was a way older quote than that. Thanks for the history lesson. It's on par with another fav of mine and I paraphrase A dog looks at their owner and thinks, they provide me with food, a home and affection, they must be God. A cat looks at their owner and thinks, they provide me with food, a home and affection, _I_ must be God. Which is attributed to Christopher Hitchens of all people.
@@kellyross4801 Heinlein may well have said it (or something similar), although I can't find a source for that. Oh, well, it's the concept that matters.
@@serinatang4184 I've read almost all of Pratchett's books, but I couldn't tell you where it's from, although it almost certainly featured Grebo. And it was from memory, so I might not have it exactly right.
I remember reading about a scientific study done in Japan about the numerative abilities of different animals. Basically it proved that just about all animals have the ability to count at least a bit. They tried dogs and birds and mice and even fish using the standard reward type experiments to observe behaviour. When the study was released the head scientist was asked about a rather glaring omission from the list "Why no mention of cats and their ability to count?" "Well" said the scientist "although we had many cats put forward by their owners and we made many attempts at it none of the cats showed any interest in any of our experiments whatsoever and we couldn't gather enough data to draw any findings." He did go on to say that although testing cats had been a flop the team were confident that the cats could in fact count, they just couldn't be bothered to.
Many years ago I was attending a feline convention and much to my surprise met the last surviving ’Spot’. To this day- One of my favorite random ‘celebrity’ run-ins. 🐈😸
@@KairuHakubi oh my gosh. Really? Who? Frankly I’m dying to know which animal. I’m exactly like same, this meeting with ‘Spot’ was simply dumb luck. If it’s one of the Lassies, I’m going to be so jealous too. 😂💯🫶☮️
@@jbrubin8274 crud, I made that comment a month ago and it feels like 6 months. I don't remember now, but I think it was the dog who played beethoven. but now I don't remember what friend told me that...
@@KairuHakubi lol, I one hundred percent understand. TH-cam isn’t great about alerting me should someone else ask. (Hence my very late reply.) But Beethoven? Dang, still jealous. That’s a solid 1980s score. You don’t even need to be Gen X to appreciate that catch. Now my ‘Spot story is so less cool. 😂💯👏☮️
My favorite scene is when Data is trying to train Spot to stay off the console and Geordi watches Spot commanding Data around and quips that his training was coming along nicely
I loved scenes with Spot because you can see how unnaturally data and the cat interact. Cats don't act and it brings a hilarious sense of immersion while also breaking the immersion.
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
It cracked me up over the years how “spot” dramatically changed in appearance without explanation. Definitely did NOT use the same cat throughout the series! He says here that there was three of them… But it seemed like the cat changed more often than that.
I worked at the animal company that supplied spot. The team of cats was always the 3 of them monster was the action cat the other 2 were better at stationary positions. The thing with all working animals is you can't change the script last minute without giving the animal time to relearn the new pattern. They don't read scene changes.
@@Campjeans thanks for the info. I was listening to an interview with Mark Harden and he mentioned that's pretty much the norm- having three animals at one time for one part to fit their personalities with the scene.
I love how it gave the impression that Data has either been neglecting his cats, or just having a run of bad luck where they keep turning into iguanas and stuff, so he just gets a new one and calls it Spot, not noticing they look different.
I LOVED Spot and his unusual name so much that I always wanted to have a cat with that name. When I adopted a black cat with a white spot on his chin I named hiim Spot because it fit so perfectly. He never did what I wanted him to either
I didn’t like how the writers sometimes argued that Data was sentient, but Spot wasn’t. That seemed to undermine their connection. The idea (at least from what I presumed) behind their relationship is that Data longs to be human, but enjoys the company of the one animal that is not the least bit impressed by humans. Cats would not care if humans took them through a worm hole, or Warp-10, or that they found cosmic gods. Cats have more undeniable personality than any other animal and yet when it came down to it, the writers claimed cats weren’t sentient but Data was. Very disappointing choice.
Exactly my thoughts too. Animals most certainly are sentient, not just cats but pretty much all animals, probably even insects. There's no reason to draw a line between them and humans. It is all a continuum, there is no hard place where sentience begins.
@@john.premose The problem is most people do not know or do care to bother to know the difference between Sentience and Sapience. Even then many want to find some excuse to ascribe Sapience exclusively to Humans.
@@john.premose It undermines the whole understanding and accepting different forms of life without judgement thing that Star Trek purportedly was perhaps once about There's an argument here to be made about veganism or something, but I'm not a vegan, so. It'd just be nice to see a version of star trek that was a little more consistent
"Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend."
"I am, in fact, starving here, but I'm going to stall a bit JUST BECAUSE it's obvious that you want me to eat right the f**k now. I can stall a bit just to p**s you off. Because...that's how I roll."
@@lonelocustoftheapocalypse3700 That comment right here is my experience of cats condensed into a short and very telling sentence. You have my empathy because it obviously comes from long suffering experience.
It is amazing on other TH-cam videos, Spiner does a “Spot On” imitation of Sir Patrick and of course, his appearances on “Night Court” were out of this World, Comedic. Spiner admitted that Stewart is quite annoyed with his imitation of his Voice. In fact, Spiner actually pranked Stewart’s wife on the phone, although she caught him at the end. Why Spiner was never asked to host SNL is the biggest Crime in Acting and Comedic History. His portrayal of “Data” on STNG are so 180 degrees different than his Real Life persona. Frankly, his name of “Data” should have been renamed into something more Imaginative.
I find it funny that the reason Spot came to be was because there were a bunch of feral cats that lived around the lot (lots of people to feed them, as well as dumpsters to forage from, mice/rats as often as food), and some would wander on to the set (even some feral cats will get acquainted with humans enough to let the person pet them, if not others). Spot was just one such cat, friendly enough (see; not afraid enough of humans) to let them shoot with him
Are you sure that is what happened? Brent Spiner claimed in the video that there were 3 cats. Another commenter claims to have worked for the company that provided the 3 cats. I find it unlikely that a feral cat would do anything close to what was needed for Spot's part in the TV series. Spot sometimes had to do very specific things, and that would require training the cat.
@@JaniceLHz wish I could remember where I heard that, that it was the feral cats on the lot (and one in particular willing to approach them for the food they gave) that inspired them to throw a cat into the fray
@@serendipityshopnyc Oh no I know that. I have the extension that brings them back. This genuinely has 0 dislikes. Far as I know the extension is only for PC, but if you're interested it's called Return TH-cam Dislike.
I get it. I LOOOOVE my cat. She's the sweetest being in my solitary life. But if I had to WORK with my cat? JESUS CHRIST! Shoot me now! I'd rather be audited by the IRS.
Dogs work to please their master cats work to please themselves. I happen to know the cat team he is speaking of and they worked great on All their jobs.
Cats are like Brando when the cameras are rolling. Hire a Capuchin Monkey instead, they can take direction and are naturally gifted at improvisation. Ask the people lucky enough to know a Capuchin, they'll tell you some stuff.
@plebpleb holy smokes, that may well be the most atrocious non funny acting I've ever seen. I've seen actors who couldn't stand each other show more chemistry between their characters, the jokes are meh, and the running around and yelling numbers scream amateur hour, not military efficiency. And that's just in the part of the one clip I saw before I closed the app. Sorbo's face isn't very special, either, so the eye candy part is hidden under the biker wannabe uniform.
well, don't use dog training techniques on cats. duh. "cat wranglers." feh! what a pack of goobs. might as well claim to be a professional "weather wrangler."
nooooo not spot! leave him alone! lol. in showbiz they say to never work with kids or animals. too many people love them more than a normal person. its fun to see data interact with lifeforms that dont behave a certain way. data is an android and for him to have a cat even is weird. i know data can't get angry but i seriously picture data being angry when hes with spot because of how cats behave lol. cats are the only thing to ever give data an actual emotional feeling that wasn't due to his emotions chip or a spell by Q and that feeling is anger.
They did brain scans of dogs whose owners left for work at the same time everyday. The dogs showed depression and it increased over 24 hours. They did the same with cats. Absolutely no difference. The cats literally didn’t give a damn. They don’t form bonds with their owners. You could be replaced by another human tomorrow and cats wouldn’t spend five minutes being upset. Dogs love you, cats only love what you do for them.
Wow! Know cats much? I think, I indeed know, you don't have the slightest idea about cats' behaviours and personalities. Don't trust so blindly in something you read, just 'cause they call it a study or just because they base it on premisses and read the results in a biased way.
@@simr87 I’m sure the cats brain scans are wrong, your zero evidence based opinion is correct. Maybe this isn’t true for every single cat, but it was with the ones they studied. If you want to get anthropomorphic with your cat, go for it but you don’t need to attack people who are providing legitimate information.
Cats vary greatly on this. I have one feline who clearly misses me when I am out of town, & another very friendly one who basically likes every human equally. But I wouldn't consider a cat (or human) getting depressed anytime I wasn't around as being a good sign for our emotional bond. I would consider it a sign of severely unhealthy dependency.
@RobPolaris...Who, exactly, is providing legitimate information here? "They did brain scans on dogs" Who is "they"? "The scans showed dogs became depressed when their owners left, but the cats did not...Cats don't give a damn about their owners. They don't form bonds..." Care to tie those two together or were you just assuming?? Try again, make sure to bring along some of that legitimate information next time...
Cats are just able to handle isolation much better, dogs are evolved from pack animals they rarely do well alone. They still grow emotional attachments. I remember my sister moved out of our family home, went away for a while, when she came back to visit the cat ran towards her like she was an old beloved friend. I knew then that cats most definitely do form emotional bonds with their owners, but in a different way to dogs.
You kidding, right? He is AMAZING! One of the best actors I’ve even seen, I get impressed when I see him playing different characters at the same time and I can see the difference with each one, he’s a genius! For me he’s the best actor in the show, maybe after Patrick Stewart.
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents; You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion. O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
By that logic, Spot (or Brandy/Monster) was the worst. Wil Wheaton must have been next. (Wheaton, Wheaton, Wheaton!!) I guess that Dorn must have irritated him once or twice, but maybe he is only joking, or scared because big Mike is lurking around with a Bat'leth and a grim expression 😉 (no disrespect to MD, he's a lot bigger than me)
As a cat owner, I can attest to this: never rely on a cat to be a consistent performer. Never rely on a cat to be consistent, ever. Cats are independent and stubborn furballs who will do what they want to, or nothing at all.
Like with everything, that depends. My cat hates having her tail touched without her consent. I give you my personal guarantee that 100% of the time, without fail, if you touch her tail and she doesn't want you to, she'll let you know. With an annoyed/surprised meow at first touch then turning into a semi-angry meow before finally swiping at your hand, claws open. This does not, however, include petting. If you pet from the head to the tail, she'll be ok as long as you don't linger.
One of our friends called it "Not My Idea" or "NMI" for short. You could do something you know the cat liked (pick it up and put it in your lap) but the cat would still reject it and walk away disgusted if said cat did not initiate it.
Data's recitation of "Ode to Spot" is one of my all-time favorite scenes in TNG. The person who wrote it is genius . . . absolutely perfect description of cats!
Mr. Brent spider. I just wanted to let you know that I have a little kitten myself my mother. And I both share of her. She’s about seven or eight months old. And right now she’s going through a very bratty stage. For instance I live in a section 8 housing apartment it’s subsidized for handicap people. She was in the bathroom with me recently and there’s an emergency pull cord you have to pull in the event if you fall or get hurt. I specifically told my kitten not to pull the string what does she do. She does the complete opposite when I said no. She pulled in anyway. If spot was a terrible actor.. Then I bet she was a little brat. I’d like to. Tell you that I think Lieutenant Commander data was a wonderful character that you portrayed. My most favorite episode out of all of them when it came to #DATA. Was measure of a man and it dealt with peoples rights were more like #DATA‘s rights. I wish I could’ve served as your advocate or something. You know as far as #DATA is concerned. Just for the heck of it. I think it would’ve been fun. If I was dressed up in a Starfleet uniform if I was #DATA‘s. Representative I would’ve backed him up 100%#DATA had some very redeeming qualities that I had a great deal of respect for. Not to mention he was a hell of a Starfleet officer. And a best friend to all of the crew. You can’t get any better than that
I'm praying he appears in night Court next season but considering 5 of the 6 cast aren't there, and 3 definitely will not be, I'm not sure if will have the same effect. Hell, whatever happened to Annie O'Donnell?!?!
Brent Spiner is just a nice guy. I got to meet him at a convention once, and he's got a great sense of humor. It really shows in these subtle ways when he plays Data and other characters.
1 constant performance for the actors at these things is they have to repeat the same stories over and over and over and over and over again. 20 years ago, 10 years ago 5 years ago 1 year ago to present, the same answers to the same questions. The responses seldom vary. It is sad. Can go to 1 comic con/convention or watch 1 of these clips and you know in the next one, you will see the same things over and over again. Much like watching the same episode of the show over and over again. Rare will you ever glimpse dialog changes at these things. Fanatics don't care tho, they will eat it up like it is new every single time. 🙄
Cats aren't bad actors, they don't act like anything else but a cat. So, not bad acting, bad writing to expect a cat to do anything other than BE a cat. < : - }
Spot was a method actor. This annoyed a lot of people
They were, "don't bother me, I'm going to the litter box".
…Such a good method actor, no one knew Spot was played by a German Shepherd.
Method.... thats mint 😂😂😂
Lmao, ‘method’ alone and I’m dying. Champion reply. 👏🙌😂
Weird Fact- Many years ago I was attending a feline convention. (Feline behavioral consultant, hence my attendance.)
By chance I met the last surviving ‘Spot’ and even trainer fully admitted she was “surly”. To put it kindly.
As were the other littermates/parents/grandparents that were used, depending on what was needed for a scene.
If more than one was on set, they had to go to great lengths to insure none crossed the others path.
(Much like ‘Eddy’ from ‘Frazier’. The bulk of the scenes involved a grandfather, father, and son who looked so much alike they too were easily switched out without the audience noticing. All three hated each other so much their trainers had to fully clean that one chair. Because if one smelled the other, that scene wasn’t happening that day. They have a hilarious backstory and the actors can be found on TH-cam telling everyone what a nightmare they were at times. 🐶😻🤣)
Cats were once revered as gods. They haven't forgotten this.
- Terry Pratchett
That's amazing.
Not the quote, but that Terry Pratchett came up with that!
I would have thought it was a way older quote than that. Thanks for the history lesson.
It's on par with another fav of mine and I paraphrase
A dog looks at their owner and thinks, they provide me with food, a home and affection, they must be God. A cat looks at their owner and thinks, they provide me with food, a home and affection, _I_ must be God.
Which is attributed to Christopher Hitchens of all people.
They still think they are, actually, and complain about the help.
That was actually Robert A Heinlein...
@@kellyross4801
Heinlein may well have said it (or something similar), although I can't find a source for that.
Oh, well, it's the concept that matters.
@@serinatang4184
I've read almost all of Pratchett's books, but I couldn't tell you where it's from, although it almost certainly featured Grebo.
And it was from memory, so I might not have it exactly right.
I remember reading about a scientific study done in Japan about the numerative abilities of different animals. Basically it proved that just about all animals have the ability to count at least a bit. They tried dogs and birds and mice and even fish using the standard reward type experiments to observe behaviour. When the study was released the head scientist was asked about a rather glaring omission from the list "Why no mention of cats and their ability to count?" "Well" said the scientist "although we had many cats put forward by their owners and we made many attempts at it none of the cats showed any interest in any of our experiments whatsoever and we couldn't gather enough data to draw any findings." He did go on to say that although testing cats had been a flop the team were confident that the cats could in fact count, they just couldn't be bothered to.
Doi! 😸🤓😎🖖🏻
cat lover much?
So cats just don't give a fuck?
Having grown up with cats and having 4 of them right now I can confirm that cats wouldn't be bothered to count for mere humans.
@Spots Corner Sounds like it's time to teach your cat pig latin.
Many years ago I was attending a feline convention and much to my surprise met the last surviving ’Spot’.
To this day- One of my favorite random ‘celebrity’ run-ins. 🐈😸
Man that's the second time now i've seen someone mention getting to meet a celebrity animal. I wish I could do that.
@@KairuHakubi oh my gosh. Really? Who?
Frankly I’m dying to know which animal. I’m exactly like same, this meeting with ‘Spot’ was simply dumb luck.
If it’s one of the Lassies, I’m going to be so jealous too. 😂💯🫶☮️
@@jbrubin8274 crud, I made that comment a month ago and it feels like 6 months. I don't remember now, but I think it was the dog who played beethoven. but now I don't remember what friend told me that...
@@KairuHakubi lol, I one hundred percent understand. TH-cam isn’t great about alerting me should someone else ask. (Hence my very late reply.)
But Beethoven?
Dang, still jealous. That’s a solid 1980s score. You don’t even need to be Gen X to appreciate that catch. Now my ‘Spot story is so less cool. 😂💯👏☮️
Spot was an orange cat. Anyone with orange cat experience should not be surprised by anything Spiner said.
++ they're the most unruly by my experience !
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers told us so in the 1970s.
@@beverlywilcox4349 Upvote for the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
So Garfield was based in reality 🤔
@@beverlywilcox4349 "I'll get you for that, Fat Freddie!"
My favorite scene is when Data is trying to train Spot to stay off the console and Geordi watches Spot commanding Data around and quips that his training was coming along nicely
"Down is GOOD! Up is NO!" XD
I loved scenes with Spot because you can see how unnaturally data and the cat interact. Cats don't act and it brings a hilarious sense of immersion while also breaking the immersion.
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
Even now, Brent still delivers those first two lines as a question.
I really liked the way Frakes delivered it in Fistful of Datas.
OMG, Star Trek predicted ChatGPT!!!
I kinda wondered why Data's friends went on about how horrible the poem was, because I really quite liked it. Still do.
Thank you. 😊
It cracked me up over the years how “spot” dramatically changed in appearance without explanation. Definitely did NOT use the same cat throughout the series! He says here that there was three of them… But it seemed like the cat changed more often than that.
I guess the later movies had different cats.
I worked at the animal company that supplied spot. The team of cats was always the 3 of them monster was the action cat the other 2 were better at stationary positions. The thing with all working animals is you can't change the script last minute without giving the animal time to relearn the new pattern. They don't read scene changes.
@@Campjeans I love how you sort your acting cats by laziness lmfao
@@Campjeans thanks for the info. I was listening to an interview with Mark Harden and he mentioned that's pretty much the norm- having three animals at one time for one part to fit their personalities with the scene.
I love how it gave the impression that Data has either been neglecting his cats, or just having a run of bad luck where they keep turning into iguanas and stuff, so he just gets a new one and calls it Spot, not noticing they look different.
I LOVED Spot and his unusual name so much that I always wanted to have a cat with that name. When I adopted a black cat with a white spot on his chin I named hiim Spot because it fit so perfectly. He never did what I wanted him to either
I always figured Spot was named that because Data searched "cat names" and picked like the most commonplace result. Like Fluffy.
So, a perfectly normal cat then? XD
Cats have very little respect for shooting schedules. Widely known fact.
I'm surprised he didn't say anything about Spot being given long monologues to deliver.
Reminds me of a video of an extremely frustrated border collie trying (and failing) two "herd" a pair of grey cats.
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. If you don’t want anything said or done, ask a cat.”
Of course it was a woman who said that...
@@RonBaker456 The first two lines are a famous quote from Margaret Thatcher. The first time I heard the cat line added was by Craig Ferguson.
ITS A GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA
I had a yellow cat with yellow eyes that I named Data Spot after Data and his cat.
I love you Brent spiner! You are such a funny guy and great actor! I have just seen the Picard episode with the cameo of Spot, it broke me 😓
I didn’t like how the writers sometimes argued that Data was sentient, but Spot wasn’t. That seemed to undermine their connection. The idea (at least from what I presumed) behind their relationship is that Data longs to be human, but enjoys the company of the one animal that is not the least bit impressed by humans. Cats would not care if humans took them through a worm hole, or Warp-10, or that they found cosmic gods. Cats have more undeniable personality than any other animal and yet when it came down to it, the writers claimed cats weren’t sentient but Data was. Very disappointing choice.
Exactly my thoughts too. Animals most certainly are sentient, not just cats but pretty much all animals, probably even insects. There's no reason to draw a line between them and humans. It is all a continuum, there is no hard place where sentience begins.
@@john.premose The problem is most people do not know or do care to bother to know the difference between Sentience and Sapience. Even then many want to find some excuse to ascribe Sapience exclusively to Humans.
@@KebaRPG I would submit that a lot of animals are probably sapient actually too
@@john.premose It undermines the whole understanding and accepting different forms of life without judgement thing that Star Trek purportedly was perhaps once about
There's an argument here to be made about veganism or something, but I'm not a vegan, so.
It'd just be nice to see a version of star trek that was a little more consistent
@@kakroom3407 I am vegan, and that's exactly why.
The should of hired a Scottish cat and named him " Mr. Spot " or a Vulcan cat ( is that a thing?) and named him " Mr. Spot "..........
"Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend."
Love cats myself, but they do their own thing when they want to.
We had an orange gold eyed cat…. His name was Data
To be honest I'm surprised Spot at tuna on cue. They can be so contrary, they know the difference when you want them to eat something.
"I am, in fact, starving here, but I'm going to stall a bit JUST BECAUSE it's obvious that you want me to eat right the f**k now. I can stall a bit just to p**s you off. Because...that's how I roll."
@@lonelocustoftheapocalypse3700 That comment right here is my experience of cats condensed into a short and very telling sentence. You have my empathy because it obviously comes from long suffering experience.
Maybe she was upset about being misgendered in the picard episode talking about "HER" to lore!
It is amazing on other TH-cam videos, Spiner does a “Spot On” imitation of Sir Patrick and of course, his appearances on “Night Court” were out of this World, Comedic. Spiner admitted that Stewart is quite annoyed with his imitation of his Voice. In fact, Spiner actually pranked Stewart’s wife on the phone, although she caught him at the end.
Why Spiner was never asked to host SNL is the biggest Crime in Acting and Comedic History.
His portrayal of “Data” on STNG are so 180 degrees different than his Real Life persona. Frankly, his name of “Data” should have been renamed into something more Imaginative.
I find it funny that the reason Spot came to be was because there were a bunch of feral cats that lived around the lot (lots of people to feed them, as well as dumpsters to forage from, mice/rats as often as food), and some would wander on to the set (even some feral cats will get acquainted with humans enough to let the person pet them, if not others). Spot was just one such cat, friendly enough (see; not afraid enough of humans) to let them shoot with him
Are you sure that is what happened?
Brent Spiner claimed in the video that there were 3 cats. Another commenter claims to have worked for the company that provided the 3 cats.
I find it unlikely that a feral cat would do anything close to what was needed for Spot's part in the TV series. Spot sometimes had to do very specific things, and that would require training the cat.
@@JaniceLHz wish I could remember where I heard that, that it was the feral cats on the lot (and one in particular willing to approach them for the food they gave) that inspired them to throw a cat into the fray
The Cat Man of key west Florida... now he is a cat trainer...
I'm still upset they never green-lit my script:
Star Trek TNG III: The Search for Spot.
If you treat a cat like a pet, you're gonna have a bad time.
If you treat it like an equal, it'll be fine.
An excellent actor, to have kept that eye-rolling frustration inside, while delivering believable and affecting performances of Spot-loving. ❤
We named one of our cats Spot, after Data's cat.
Spiner getting punked by the writers. 😂😂
Brent 😅😂 is such a sweetheart with fans
Before Star Trek ever had a cat named Spot. I had a cat named Spot. She was a tuxedo with a spot between her legs.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you, to learn that cats don't take direction well.
i can't believe he talked about the cats gender
I hear Livingston took good direction and got every scene in the first take, unlike Spot.
Wait a minute! Why did they have to replicate the tin can for Spot’s tuna?
Can you imagine a tuna soft-serve machine? That sounds messy
Spot...KICKED ASS!!!! mainly, because, he/she, was, a, CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well not to jinx anything but this is the first video over a year old I've seen with 0 dislikes. Impressive. Edit: Oh well.
TH-cam stopped posting the thumbs-down counts quite a while ago. Not sure why.
@@serendipityshopnyc Oh no I know that. I have the extension that brings them back. This genuinely has 0 dislikes. Far as I know the extension is only for PC, but if you're interested it's called Return TH-cam Dislike.
Based on Brent's comment, Spot was the real Star Trek Nemesis!
Funny that the same techniques worked better on Dorn than the cat.
Who? Spock?
Oh Spot...
I get it. I LOOOOVE my cat. She's the sweetest being in my solitary life. But if I had to WORK with my cat? JESUS CHRIST! Shoot me now! I'd rather be audited by the IRS.
There's a spot on his shirt oh that's just his cat😂😂
Dogs work to please their master cats work to please themselves. I happen to know the cat team he is speaking of and they worked great on All their jobs.
Cats are like Brando when the cameras are rolling. Hire a Capuchin Monkey instead, they can take direction and are naturally gifted at improvisation. Ask the people lucky enough to know a Capuchin, they'll tell you some stuff.
Spot on.
Thought the Headline title was a typo that was supposed to read "Spok" whoops lol my bad
Typical cats. They know, they just dont care. 😂 my boy is both lovable and frustrating.
Dogs will do things to please their owners. Cats do things to please themselves!
Dogs have 'owners'. Cats have 'domestic staff'.
@@tanall5959 Nice one!
As a car wrangler in a couple of tv shows.....he is spot on.
heh
Brent Spiner wrangles cars?
You thought you could "work" with a cat?
I have an uncle who looks like Brent Spiner. Yes, we call him Data sometimes.
Who can know the mind of a cat?
"Spiner is hilarious!
That's Lore, not Brent!!
What is it with perverts asking questions?
I love cats. If you turn them inside out, the make great mittens.
Because...cat. gingers especially do what they want.
even spot couldn't be as bad as kevin sorbo.
❔
I loved Hercules, but looking back, have to admit Sorbo was mainly eye candy and his fellow actors were the ones making the show interesting and fun.
@plebpleb holy smokes, that may well be the most atrocious non funny acting I've ever seen. I've seen actors who couldn't stand each other show more chemistry between their characters, the jokes are meh, and the running around and yelling numbers scream amateur hour, not military efficiency. And that's just in the part of the one clip I saw before I closed the app. Sorbo's face isn't very special, either, so the eye candy part is hidden under the biker wannabe uniform.
The guy who played Ares now, he was covered from head to toe and still smoking hot.
@@Jacqueline_Thijsen Kevin Smith! Yes!
well, don't use dog training techniques on cats.
duh.
"cat wranglers." feh!
what a pack of goobs. might as well claim to be a professional "weather wrangler."
Who is Spot? Does he mean Spock?
Spot is Data's cat on the Enterprise.
They should have made Spot a dog in the show instead. Would have been a lot easier on Mr. Spiner and the rest of the cast, lol.
nooooo not spot! leave him alone! lol. in showbiz they say to never work with kids or animals. too many people love them more than a normal person.
its fun to see data interact with lifeforms that dont behave a certain way. data is an android and for him to have a cat even is weird. i know data can't get angry but i seriously picture data being angry when hes with spot because of how cats behave lol. cats are the only thing to ever give data an actual emotional feeling that wasn't due to his emotions chip or a spell by Q and that feeling is anger.
Spot is boring compared to MY cats
They did brain scans of dogs whose owners left for work at the same time everyday. The dogs showed depression and it increased over 24 hours.
They did the same with cats. Absolutely no difference. The cats literally didn’t give a damn. They don’t form bonds with their owners. You could be replaced by another human tomorrow and cats wouldn’t spend five minutes being upset.
Dogs love you, cats only love what you do for them.
Wow! Know cats much? I think, I indeed know, you don't have the slightest idea about cats' behaviours and personalities. Don't trust so blindly in something you read, just 'cause they call it a study or just because they base it on premisses and read the results in a biased way.
@@simr87 I’m sure the cats brain scans are wrong, your zero evidence based opinion is correct.
Maybe this isn’t true for every single cat, but it was with the ones they studied. If you want to get anthropomorphic with your cat, go for it but you don’t need to attack people who are providing legitimate information.
Cats vary greatly on this. I have one feline who clearly misses me when I am out of town, & another very friendly one who basically likes every human equally. But I wouldn't consider a cat (or human) getting depressed anytime I wasn't around as being a good sign for our emotional bond. I would consider it a sign of severely unhealthy dependency.
@RobPolaris...Who, exactly, is providing legitimate information here?
"They did brain scans on dogs"
Who is "they"?
"The scans showed dogs became depressed when their owners left, but the cats did not...Cats don't give a damn about their owners. They don't form bonds..."
Care to tie those two together or were you just assuming??
Try again, make sure to bring along some of that legitimate information next time...
Cats are just able to handle isolation much better, dogs are evolved from pack animals they rarely do well alone. They still grow emotional attachments. I remember my sister moved out of our family home, went away for a while, when she came back to visit the cat ran towards her like she was an old beloved friend. I knew then that cats most definitely do form emotional bonds with their owners, but in a different way to dogs.
LOL Spiner is pretty terrible himself.
almost robotic in his approach :D
You kidding, right? He is AMAZING! One of the best actors I’ve even seen, I get impressed when I see him playing different characters at the same time and I can see the difference with each one, he’s a genius! For me he’s the best actor in the show, maybe after Patrick Stewart.
He a pretty good actor, unlike most Hollywood actors,characters he plays don’t all act the same
last Koresh, yep that is what he said about himself. But it’s a joke dude.
@@cromemako83 😂😂😂🎉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite part of this was hearing that the writers would punk him with fake scripts filled with elaborate Spot scenes.
😂😂😂🎉
Spot fixes all the isolinear chips like Data did in The Naked Now.
@@andythekitsune hahaha
Man I’d love to read some of those! 😆
Star Trek: Spot, coming this fall to Paramount+
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
"As an actor, never work with animals or small children" -- W.C. Fields
Shut up Wesley
By that logic, Spot (or Brandy/Monster) was the worst. Wil Wheaton must have been next. (Wheaton, Wheaton, Wheaton!!) I guess that Dorn must have irritated him once or twice, but maybe he is only joking, or scared because big Mike is lurking around with a Bat'leth and a grim expression 😉 (no disrespect to MD, he's a lot bigger than me)
@@Moondog-wc4vm Wil was you but not THAT young. Think more like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.
Same thing really
‘Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.’
As a cat owner, I can attest to this: never rely on a cat to be a consistent performer. Never rely on a cat to be consistent, ever. Cats are independent and stubborn furballs who will do what they want to, or nothing at all.
consistently inconsistent
And usually, the exact opposite of what you want.
I had to put a bungy cord on my kitchen sink. My Cat figured out how to turn it on to get a drink. But like a jerk. He never shut it off.
Like with everything, that depends. My cat hates having her tail touched without her consent. I give you my personal guarantee that 100% of the time, without fail, if you touch her tail and she doesn't want you to, she'll let you know. With an annoyed/surprised meow at first touch then turning into a semi-angry meow before finally swiping at your hand, claws open. This does not, however, include petting. If you pet from the head to the tail, she'll be ok as long as you don't linger.
One of our friends called it "Not My Idea" or "NMI" for short. You could do something you know the cat liked (pick it up and put it in your lap) but the cat would still reject it and walk away disgusted if said cat did not initiate it.
Data's recitation of "Ode to Spot" is one of my all-time favorite scenes in TNG. The person who wrote it is genius . . . absolutely perfect description of cats!
IT IS we just rewatched that and I'm now determined to memorize it!
Mr. Brent spider. I just wanted to let you know that I have a little kitten myself my mother. And I both share of her. She’s about seven or eight months old. And right now she’s going through a very bratty stage. For instance I live in a section 8 housing apartment it’s subsidized for handicap people. She was in the bathroom with me recently and there’s an emergency pull cord you have to pull in the event if you fall or get hurt. I specifically told my kitten not to pull the string what does she do. She does the complete opposite when I said no. She pulled in anyway. If spot was a terrible actor.. Then I bet she was a little brat. I’d like to. Tell you that I think Lieutenant Commander data was a wonderful character that you portrayed. My most favorite episode out of all of them when it came to #DATA. Was measure of a man and it dealt with peoples rights were more like #DATA‘s rights. I wish I could’ve served as your advocate or something. You know as far as #DATA is concerned. Just for the heck of it. I think it would’ve been fun. If I was dressed up in a Starfleet uniform if I was #DATA‘s. Representative I would’ve backed him up 100%#DATA had some very redeeming qualities that I had a great deal of respect for. Not to mention he was a hell of a Starfleet officer. And a best friend to all of the crew. You can’t get any better than that
Datas struggle with the cat is real. 😂
I'm an aspiring screenwriter and I learned to never write animals into a script because they're so difficult to work with on set.
Cats don't care if you are an actor or not; you're still a servant to the cat.
spot...
this is down...
down spot...
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Brent Spiner - that was a distinct Mi-Ouch of an answer !
"They were all relatively good." High praise indeed, sir. LOL
I love Brent. I shudder to think if another actor was cast as Data
I think Spiner needs reprise his two greatest roles in one show.
With Data going back in time and meeting his ancestor from NIGHT COURT.
LOL
I'm praying he appears in night Court next season but considering 5 of the 6 cast aren't there, and 3 definitely will not be, I'm not sure if will have the same effect.
Hell, whatever happened to Annie O'Donnell?!?!
I have a 15 pound orange tabby. He listens to me. Takes direction well. Runs the house is the boss over two other Burmese.
That cat has seen some s**t.
Brent Spiner is just a nice guy. I got to meet him at a convention once, and he's got a great sense of humor. It really shows in these subtle ways when he plays Data and other characters.
Why they thought they could get a cat to follow directions..they do what they want. Want a cat to do something.. feed them. I've got 3 cats.. I know.
I met Brent At MegaCON Orlando!
Is there some problem with the mics? Audio is so bad I can't hear most of what he's saying.
Vamoose, ya lil varmint! 😂
😂😂😂🎉
He's a cat! It's what he does. It's his job to mess with you.
To boldly prowl, where no feline has prowled before.
One of the 3 cats was an Abbyssinian. Orange, okay, buit not at all like the others, I mean in looks. But clearly like the others in behavior.
1 constant performance for the actors at these things is they have to repeat the same stories over and over and over and over and over again. 20 years ago, 10 years ago 5 years ago 1 year ago to present, the same answers to the same questions. The responses seldom vary. It is sad. Can go to 1 comic con/convention or watch 1 of these clips and you know in the next one, you will see the same things over and over again. Much like watching the same episode of the show over and over again. Rare will you ever glimpse dialog changes at these things. Fanatics don't care tho, they will eat it up like it is new every single time. 🙄
They're cats. They don't care. :D
Cats just doin’ what cats wanna do😂
God i recall ode to Spot...
Cats aren't bad actors, they don't act like anything else but a cat. So, not bad acting, bad writing to expect a cat to do anything other than BE a cat.
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That is bad acting
For Spots sake, I am glad the Starship Enterprise never visited the home world of ALF.
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One orange braincell