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- Star Trek The Next Generation s03e04 Who Watches The Watchers
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“I do not fear you any longer”
“Good, now let me tell you about the Borg”
“I do not fear you any longer.”
"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!"
"Oh, and then there's Apollo and the Doud and Q and several other entities that actually are gods for all intents and purposes."
They sound Swedish.
"We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your huts and bows will service us. Resistance is futile."
Unfortunately despite their lack of technology, considering their mental acuity they would probably make good communication drones, so they wouldn't be safe staying as they are.
"Of that I have absolutely no doubt." I love that despite all of the power that Picard commands, he genuinely admires others simply for their attitudes and potential.
You do know he’s an actor playing a role, don’t you?
@@Launicaliz Uh...
@@PR--un4ub meh
@@Launicaliz Obviously as is everyone else in entertainment and to an extent, in life? So what? The point of the characters, the episode and the whole series remains the same.
@@ImAmirus the scientific method has been around for thousands of years, though not in the exact form we use now.
This is not a recent innovation.
She's more reasonable and advanced than half of the people I know right now.
Because, unfortunately, most people today are still religious.
@JanetStarChild dude, Islamophobia isn't cool anyone, it's almost 2024
@@Leastmachine
I didn't say fuck all about Islam; but now that you mentioned it, I think all the Abrahamic religions are vile, including Islam.
@@Leastmachine first they didn't mention islam they said religion, if you are assuming islam when someone says 'religion bad' then you're the bigot. Also islam isn't the only religion holding people back, thanks to christianity approx 70% of americans believe angels exist, or that the world is flat and only 6000 years old
Yes, planets are spherical in shape.
This is Star Trek at its finest.
What ep is this?@
@@rsprockets7846 Who Watches the Watchers (Season 3, Episode 4)
Of that, I have absolutely no doubt.
"WAS". Now star trek is trash. And we all have to thank to Kurtzman and his evil woke henchmen for that.
@@Kohagaan People like you are the reason Kurtzman is in the position he's in.
I absolutely love how the moment she understands what Picard is conveying, she begins to investigate the ship and her surroundings, and the possibility that her people could become like the population of the Enterprise.
What a great guest star. She’s very intelligent and thoughtful. Cares about her people and respectful but firm with an alien race that could decimate her people. Naive doesn’t equal dumb with this character.
The next generation was full of fantastically well written characters like this one, who never made another appearance beyond a single episode
At this point in the episode though she still thinks he's essentially an immortal being with limitless powers, as well she might considering the sudden 10,000 year leap in the technology she's now seeing.
@@GrizzloxI wish I could have seen more of the tamarians in a live action format
When good writing, good direction and good acting join forces.
And when Executive meddling doesn't get in the way.
@@NickWrightDataYT You mean wokeness, DEI, doesn't ruin a show or franchise.
"As seen from high above."
"Yet we do not fall..."
"We do fall, but we are moving sideways so quickly that we miss, and so we continue falling, and continue missing."
I can hear Picard while reading this
and you just reinvented calculus!
That'd be a can of worms best left unopened. Having to then explain why they don't feel like they are falling, how artificial gravity is holding them where they are, etc.
@@ElementofKindness
*"Why don't we feel like we are falling?"*
"There is a tool in the floor, which attracts us like a loadstone does the needle of a compass. Computer, reduce gravity in the room to one quarter."
"This is falling... With style!"
I love how Picard is in awe of Nuria's curiosity and wonder. A true explorer.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clark
“What we call technology, they call magic.”
I’d like to know what writer penned that line for Odin.
Honoring Roddenberry's positive belief in humanity's future: "Perhaps one day my people will ..... Of this I have no doubt!"
Not just humanity's future, the hope that whatever we find out there we can work together with them for the benefit of all.
This was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL and WONDERFUL episode for me as an anthropologist. Picard was so right on everything. It's crazy. I'm almost crying.
Absolutely true. Jesus said. "You shall hear the truth and it will set you free." He did't say it would be pretty.
You recognize it beyond the illusion.
First of all, the word "GOVERNMENT" means the following in a dictionary (book). The Greek and Latin prefix means 'to control or to steer like you would the rudder of a boat. Its Latin suffix 'mente' means "the mind".
Now, put it all together.
"Government means to control or to steer the mind"
Google:
1. Treaty of Paris of 1783 (preamble) transcript
2. Order 1997, No. 1997
3. Executive Order 13744
@@mainerockflour3462 Special Order 937
No agenda, no lecturing, no thinly veiled Marxist Propaganda, impersonating morality, just good writing.
A touching and glorious episode, indeed
@@ValehassI mean, one can argue that the material conditions of the humans in Star Trek were significantly more advanced than Nuria’s people and suddenly there is applied Marxist theory >:)
i really wish star trek was like this again.
Watch Strange New Worlds.
You cant have Star Trek like this if people think Colonialism and American exceptionalism and spreading Democracy and Liberalism is justified with military violence and regime change.
@@frozzytango9927 whats all that got to do with being able to tell a good coherent sci fi story?
@@NickWrightDataYT yeah. It was ok. Much better than the other shows they put out recently and those terrible movies.
@@tranzorz6293 Star Trek is a philosophical and humanity focused theme, story, build characters and promotion of peace and standing up for principles, none of which the ideas we have today which in the far sightedness of the writers would show men today as uncivilized and barbaric backward thinking. Star Trek goes beyond human present sensibilities.
0:41 Nobody ever seems to mention this mother of all facepalms. He facepalms so hard he has to walk out of frame.
It's subtle, yet strong.
@@Andrewmorningstar It's patronising and condescending. One of my all time favorite TNG episodes. But jesus the writers were clueless sometimes. Picards speech to this women is as bad as some of Troys lines "he's hiding something captain" - an observation anybody could make with out being an empath, yet alone having two functioning brain cells in their head, buttock, left knee, right hoof, flipper, wing or where ever else their particular species might house their brain.
@@johnrauner2515 Nah, it's just "explain like I am 5". Nothing condescending about that.
@@johnrauner2515 literally nothing condescending about it. Simply taking something astronomically impossible to understand and simplifying it. If Picard was talking to a man, I highly doubt you would find it condescending
@@josiahk.2048 Yeah, Nuria was the only one smart enough to grasp what Picard was trying to explain, out of her entire village. Some of the men were trying to start brutally killing and completely ignoring reason.
This is one of a handful of TNG moments that sends a tingle down my spine and brings a tear to my eye. Lovely stuff.
Same here.
Same here. Everytime. This is Star Trek at its best. Giving you hope for the future. The idea that the world can and will be a better place. That the problems of today, however large they may be, are just another bump in the road. That if we never lose hope, never stop trying to be better, that there's almost nothing we can't achieve.
I also shed a tear for the scene between Sisko and his aged son in the visitor ds9
So true.
something taday‘s Star Trek lacks
No one delivers dialogue like Patrick Stewart
Well... he is one of the best actors of hollywood.
@@kamalkumar7978 Was until he went woke and began shitting on his character's legacy in Discard.
Retconning his character's father into a woman beater because his own father suffered from ptsd or shell shock as they called it back then and beat his mother.
@@ValiantWrestling bros a clown!!!
"Wow, there's a lot of water on my planet. We really *should* build ships." (becomes the proto-Vulcan version of England)
So many atrocities in their future!
"Man, we gotta start pillaging some stuff."
you do know England were not the first country to be like that dont you ? they were just better at it than everybody else
@@secretsquirrel6124 *Became better at it.
Everyone speaks English in Star Trek, so you know in the Trek universe Britain colonized the galaxy.
I was always drawn back to this scene because it had some of the best writing ever put on TV, but I never noticed one of the subtle details before. Up to the point where Picard is trying to explain to Nuryea how a civilization advances over time, her eyes are wide open and her stance is stiff, like she's unsure about how to act around him. But when she finally understands his point, at 2:44 you can see her eyes lower and her posture relax. Great attention to detail, and great acting by the woman who portrayed Nuryea.
That's Kathryn Leigh Scott, an extremely prolific character actor on 80s television. Her most recent role was in The 11th Green, in 2020.
@@johnnynorrisjr.39 Wow, thanks for that! I looked her up and remembered her face without all the effects added in the episode. Damn, she went all the way back to the Dark Shadow series!
Very observant. Thank you for pointing that out.
One of my favorite episodes.
It's always nice how things work out when people are willing to listen to reason, rather than let themselves be blinded by hate and anger and fear.
That is the appeal of Star Trek to me.
and religion
Sounds like you’re describing about half of humans today.
@@secretsquirrel6124 here here
@@stevenreichertart you sure it's half?
"You see. My people used to shoot animals with bows and live in caves and then built huts. Then we learned you could set arrows on fire and shoot them at the huts of others and shoot the people as they fled their burning huts. Then they leaned how to build bigger huts out of stone. So we built a machine that could throw rocks to destroy those stone huts. Now this is where things get really interesting..."
European history.
@@tdirtyatl China first.
Lol 😆
@@DavidAWA Nah, Mesopotamia.
@@christianriddler5063 Either way. Not Europe.
It's amazing how young students think that ancient people were "stupid" for not having the technology we have today. Then I show them this scene, and the light bulbs start going off over their heads.
And the best part is that Picard's doing it by simply asking her about what she already knows, and allowing her to make the connections and articulate the ideas that form all on her own. The socratic method is a powerful thing.
Ancient people were more advanced than we are today.
@@DarthSathion In some things, most definitely.
@@blakefriel704 Care to elaborate?
I’m just imagining some dude on the street running up to teenagers, yelling them, pointing at their phone with this clip running in the background :D
I love how Picard presents the information. He teaches in the best way. Instead of explaining they simply have more advanced technology and hope she can grasp what that means, he asks questions about her people and what she already knows, essentially guiding her to her own realization and understanding. He gets her to think instead of just being in awe or overwhelmed.
This is legit inspiring.
It is..
Truth. Reminds me of Stargate SG1 s01e08 'Brief Candle', when they realise they could live longer and talk about how they would explore and learn things and teach their children so that they could learn more.
I love the look of admiration he gives her at the end. The kind when a child says something unknowingly wise and profound.
" I never thought I'd see the clouds from the other side ". Truly poetic.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions, I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
The basic simple concept of Star Trek is at some point we as humans stopped being scared of each other, and wanted a greater destiny.
It started with her being amazed and ended with him being amazed!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 'Clarke's Third Law'
Some things in 2023 would be hard to explain even to people from 1989, when this episode aired.
Public compliance with lockdowns, for one.
Not really. Read up on the Spanish Flu. People went through many similar things to what we've gone through in 2020.
@@juliapigworthy Is there no _Star Trek_ comment section free of right-wing stupidity?
@@Ragitsu if it means people valuing freedom over blind obedience to a proto fascist state, probably not.
@@juliapigworthy Given that both USSR and nuts Germany existed before 1989, public compliance with anything wouldn't surprise anyone. Authoritarian governments aren't a new thing.
Without aspirational sci-fi I think the next generations are lost. Sci-fi has driven much of the science discoveries we have today, from Verne to Clarke to Roddenberry. Look up how Faraday was inspired by Verne, and wonder where we’d be without his contributions to science.
She's not like: "Oh, my world is a sphere?"
Even ancient Greeks knew the world was a globe. These are set up to be rational scientific people from the start
I tend to think it is because of the logical intuition of being able to see "globes" elsewhere in her system.
Because planets are flat. Drup
That tends to be pretty obvious once you start looking around and thinking. The ancient Greeks knew the diameter of Earth to within a few percent, they were maybe a couple hundred years ahead of these guys and way less rational.
When we first meet their race one of them is taking measurements of their sun using a type of astroglobe.
Whenever I think of that real Trek feels like, this is the episode and moment I remember 😊
For me it's the "reveal" in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. As a child it's taught that racism is wrong, but LTBYLB shows you why it's also stupid. Everyone has the same reaction to Frank Gorshin's explanation of the "difference": we all immediately think "you absolute moron".
Who Watches the Watchers is one of the BEST episodes of any Star Trek for its writing and acting.
What a fantastic scene! Beautifully written and masterfully acted.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
-- Arthur C Clarke
Great line. "Of that I have absolutely no doubt."
this scene together with the end of inner light and picard playing the flute with daren on the jefferies tube allways brings a tear to my eyes
Such a beautiful moment...
I absolutely adore the episodes (of any ST series) where they interact with civilizations that aren't as advanced.
If you tried this with a proto-Klingon race:
Picard: Now how would she react?
Proto-Klingon: I think she would fear me.
Picard: Just as you fear me.
Proto-Klingon: Oh, so I should kill you?
Picard:
That reaction would have solved the plot of this episode XD.
You can tell at the end of the video that Picard was imagining both of their peoples working together, manning starships together and exploring worlds he couldn't even dream of.
"I do not fear you any longer."
"Good, because if you knew how much destructive potential we have on this ship I'd have never snapped you out of your reverent zealotry."
Here, Picard demonstrates the walking facepalm. Not quite as renowned as the sitting facepalm, this version is reserved for moments when one is mistaken for a deity. I use this one all the time when it happens to me.
intelligence is the ability to imagine what might exist but does not yet; the opposite is to deny that it is possible, because it does not exist
Great! I'm now stuck on Star Trek clips and "Sharpe's Waterloo", etc. (Sean Bean) movies and clips. :)
Mixing star trek and sharpe on the same night? Now that's soldiering.
Aha! .. we appear to be trapped in the same loop.. I literally went from Data threatning a village to Sharpe dueling some Fat bloke.. good ole TH-cam algorithm.. watch out, you'll be watching some bloke mow a lawn for free soon.
Cross pollinating TNG and Major Sharpe's adventures: Now THAT'S soldiering!
TH-cam robs many of us of a decent night's sleep even when we know we have work in the morning.. (lies to self: "'I'll watch just one more 3 minute clip..")
The writing on this show is legendary!
one of my favorite episodes. After "the inner light" of course.
"My people once lived in caves."
_music cuts in_
"It's been a long road, gettin' from there to here..."
Blasphemy
What an amazingly humble and good hearted person
I find when I revisit this show, these moments pull at my emotions. I think it's a testiment to the shows quality of writing and also the acting in this scene.
Continue to upload these clips, I love this whole episode.
Which episode?
Great clip great scene. Captures some of the best ideals of star trek
One of the best moments in the entire series. Among my top favourites..
Someday I would love to see this story:
It's is centuries later, and Nuryea's people have left their world and the Federation has made full contact. The Federation ambassador is appearing on a television show to explain the Federation and what it stands for. The ambassador is also there to learn about their culture.
A professor of literature talks about their people's most ancient legend. The legend of Nuryea and "The Pick-heart", who came from the sky and spoke to Nuryea of wisdom and what her people could become.
And the ambassador smiles with the purest joy. "We in the Federation have waited a long time to show you this." He brings up a projector...and plays this scene, to show of the ancient contact and the truth of their legend.
Wouldn't that be wonderful.
Props for uploading such a high definition version of this amazing scene.
They are related to Vulcans and Romulans, of course he has no doubt lol
This may be my favorite scene of this entire series. I can't get enough of it.
I love how she's in awe of her home from that view. I know I would be for sure.
When the Picard face palms, then you angered the Picard!
Nah, I think it's more often than not his way of projecting the thought of "Oh dear god, how do I explain this shit?" Definitely the case with Picard's double facepalm with Data.
@@emissaryofcharybdis105 Definitely. The greater the technological gulf between two societies, the harder it is to explain something the less advanced society has no experience with.
If the Enterprise visited 21st century Earth, I think most people would get the basic idea. Not that we'd understand how warp drives and transporters work, but the idea of a huge spaceship wouldn't be that foreign to us.
Go back to the mid 18th century, and guys like Jules Verne would probably get it. Maybe nobody else would, but at least a few people would understand.
Go back to Elizabethan England, and it looks like witchcraft.
Now, try explaining a starship to a neolithic/Bronze Age people (as the Minitakans appear to be). Hell, try explaining a _radio_ to those people. It's going to be almost impossible. The one advantage they have is that they appear to be logical. Picard can explain the simple steps they'd made (huts, woven clothes, etc.), tell her that we'd made similar steps in our history, and she could work out that what separated JLP from them wasn't some mystical power, but rather _time_
@@almostfm Well, time and luck, anyway. I'm not so confident that we'll be around long enough to be sailing the stars someday.
@@emissaryofcharybdis105 I wouldn't be so sure. We already have space stations, and that's after inventing jet engines not very long ago. Hopefully we can get the environmental issues under control first, but once we do that I think we can someday get there, if it is indeed physically possible to do so.
@@JackgarPrime You're more of a positive thinker than I am, man.
One of the very best episodes.
When the series originally aired I dont think we quite appreciated just how great it was, and how great the characters were. I notice details now 30 years later that I didnt before and they are wonderful
That one line always brings a tear to my eyes. "Of that I have absolutely no doubt." Picard is so hopeful about the Mintakans, you can't help but hear the emotion he is so stoically hiding behind a bland face.
That last line Picard gives is the most top shelf compliment he’s ever given.
This is one of the all time best episodes of television.
Beautiful Star Trek moment. Fantastic series.
One of my favorite moments in all of Star Trek!
picard is a very wise man...he explained it so brilliantly!
Arthur C Clarke wrote that early civilisations would see today’s world as magical.
Another wonderful episode, made moving by fantastic performances, particularly Patrick Stewart.
The lady was also fantastic.
Picard: Of that I have absolutely no doubt...
Kirk: ...because your body is out of this world!
Braaaaaagggghhhh ... So true!
😂
More like...
"I don't fear you any longer..."
Kirk moves towards her slowly, takes her in his arms.... smiles...."I'm glad"
And the KISS ensues.
😘
@@dennish300 lmao
@@teach-learn4078 I can literally visualize Kirk doing that... Lol
Somewhere Q is kicking back with a bowl of buttered popcorn to watch!
One could argue every episode of Star Trek is just Q tv programming.
understanding the evolutionary process in all aspects of our existence..
I absolutely love this. Ideally, you would want your more "primitive" student to be quick on the uptake.
Something (in-story) always puzzled me about this mission: You'd think a team from the Vulcan Science Institute would have been a better observer team/ship sent from a variety of reasons.
But some humans though "Hey I want to do that" and they didn't select a Vulcan.
That's racist
"Yet we do not fall."
Orbiral Mechanics: False, you are falling so fast that you are falling around the object rather than into it.
He was trying NOT to make her head asplode...
@@a2ndopynyn I know I know. I couldn't pass up the moment to go all Dwight there every time I watch this episode.😂😂😂
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 lol I get it but, um, who is Dwight?
@@a2ndopynyn The nerdy dude from "The Office".
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 Ahhh! Never watched that one. Thx.
This is Star Trek at it's absolute finest!
This scene reminds me of the First Contact scene when Lily meet Picard. Fortunately, Nuria didn't had a phaser at hand.
Every year that passes, each month we plan for in our calendars, every hour we wish away till home time, every second that ticks away, star trek the next generation grows, it's heart stronger, it's ideas bigger, and it's relevance magnified. It is a guide book, about how to treat each other and the world around us, a book that I think many people would benefit from reading. Thanks for posting.🙂
"I no longer fear you."
"That's good, because I could lay waste to your entire world with a single command."
"perhaps one day, my people will have beans"
Near the very end of this video, the way the captain reacts to what she said, that part always gets me in the feels.
2:55 leaning on the chair a nice touch to shift dynamics of conversation
One of the best scenes in the series IMO.
Gosh this is beautiful on film.
This is just masterpiece, how Star Trek TNG works; there is not even a need for action, violence or shooting, but simple the story line and also the suspense are so well done in this series it still makes it a 'masterpiece', even to today's standard.
That was a great edit man, you understand Cadence. The Fade to Black was boss.
This was a great scene, Picard is actually in awe seeing that she and her people have such potential just by being curious of the unknown. I would love to know how this race evolves over the centuries and what they become. Discovery is in the Future now, it would be great if they made an appearance as a super advanced and enlightened race, everything humanity and the Federation strived to be but appears to have lost after the burn.
I'm impressed by her vocabulary, considering her people's point in technology.
That's the Universal Translator Cheat Device For Network TV In The 80s, ahem-HEM, "Universal Translator" at work.
@@johnnynorrisjr.39 I forgot about that plot device. I would try using it on cats and dogs to see if they had a verbal language that we had mapped yet.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..." (Mark Twain)
most americns have never left the state they were born in let alone visited another country
@@corberus3119 And it shows.
"We once lived in caves, then huts, then bigger huts. Then things got complicated and we went back to caves. Now we sail the stars!"
I was waiting for some where over the rainbow 🌈
Yes, the back shot at the start made me think Dorothy!
It's amazing how well Star Trek was written. Even today among all the special effects in garbage that they make with the new Star Trek series this one still holds up better than anything they've made . Doesn't take much of explosion special effects or BS . all it takes is a couple good Riders and a good director and you get a classic like Star Trek the Next Generation one of the best TV series ever created
Show her a Vulcan, that should really blow her mind
Picard enjoys the fantasy many of us have had, to be able to go back in time and show off technology. Ever dream of showing up at a car race in the 1920s in a new 2024 Corvette? I confess I have 😁
thank you for uploading the remastered version of tng
You're welcome :)
At the time this show was aired I really didn't care much for it. It was alright and all but I didn't appreciate it. Now that I am older and see the nonsense that is "entertainment" I find this show a breathe of fresh air.
This is what "New Trek" Is missing the hart the slow moments the people flashy cg1 doesn't replace people.
"Yet we do not fall?" Newton: bro ur constantly falling but missing
Such an amazing show
my favorite scene in all of Startrek
Picard: “Don’t call me The Picard, I’m just a man.”
Sisko: “I’m The Sisko, and don’t you forget it.”
🤣 Sisko could have become dictator of Bajor.
Sisko punched Q in the face, and eventually deluded himself into actually believing he was a messiah of sorts.
@@hobomike6935 Not a messiah; an Emissary!
"Yet we do not fall"
NDT: Weeeeeelll actually....