Is This the Best Season of TNG?

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    Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the most popular sci-fi shows of all time. Its third season is considered by many to be a step up in the quality of the writing, but does season 4 continue that trend?
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  • @OrangeRiver
    @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @ksiaa814
      @ksiaa814 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beepboop204 why would he stop?

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @ksiaa814
      @ksiaa814 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ksiaa814 100% all the way jokes are mandatory

  • @MrMatthias
    @MrMatthias ปีที่แล้ว +43

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

    • @jazzpunk
      @jazzpunk ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @lionspawfilmandphoto
      @lionspawfilmandphoto ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @WokeBegone
      @WokeBegone 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @villageidiots2041
    @villageidiots2041 ปีที่แล้ว +94

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @3MenAndALetsPlay
      @3MenAndALetsPlay ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @SirMarshalHaig
      @SirMarshalHaig ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @Ken-fh4jc
      @Ken-fh4jc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @WokeBegone
      @WokeBegone 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @FordFourD-aka-Ford4D
    @FordFourD-aka-Ford4D ปีที่แล้ว +52

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

  • @L33Reacts
    @L33Reacts ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Season 3 to season 6 is a legendary run.

    • @commiecomrade2644
      @commiecomrade2644 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @L33Reacts
      @L33Reacts ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @glasswhisperer
      @glasswhisperer ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @bigfootwalker5399
      @bigfootwalker5399 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Season 7 is the best season

    • @bonghunezhou5051
      @bonghunezhou5051 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Blanket000
    @Blanket000 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @marshallhuffer4713
    @marshallhuffer4713 ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

    • @powerbadpowerbad
      @powerbadpowerbad ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @himbourbanist
    @himbourbanist ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @himbourbanist
      @himbourbanist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @julianbermudez_415
    @julianbermudez_415 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @antimatterhorn
      @antimatterhorn ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @onlyhereonceinlife
      @onlyhereonceinlife ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @_Omega_Weapon
    @_Omega_Weapon ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @sugartbube
    @sugartbube ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @DJToMyHits
    @DJToMyHits ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @saxondark
    @saxondark ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @OrangeRiver
      @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hope you're doing well too Saxon!

    • @saxondark
      @saxondark ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @jhonbus
      @jhonbus ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @saxondark
      @saxondark ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @mystuff8602
    @mystuff8602 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @JacquesLapeyre
    @JacquesLapeyre ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @icantthinkofanything798
      @icantthinkofanything798 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That would make for a very very interesting premise

    • @ageamiu8923
      @ageamiu8923 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those are really good points.

  • @Malkiore1
    @Malkiore1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @palmercolson7037
      @palmercolson7037 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @powerbadpowerbad
      @powerbadpowerbad ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @jhonbus
      @jhonbus ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Malkiore1
      @Malkiore1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @powerbadpowerbad
      @powerbadpowerbad ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @penguinmaster7
    @penguinmaster7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @TheEyez187
    @TheEyez187 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @rachelolvera9435
    @rachelolvera9435 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I cried when O’Brien and captain maxwell were singing

  • @adrianfarrell8219
    @adrianfarrell8219 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @adrianfarrell8219
      @adrianfarrell8219 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @kryptikt
    @kryptikt ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @classic.cameras
    @classic.cameras ปีที่แล้ว +5

    SImply, Thank you for making this series.

  • @ClanOKeefe
    @ClanOKeefe ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @TimelyAbyss
    @TimelyAbyss ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @Redshirt434
      @Redshirt434 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      With Data taking the role of the Enterprise computer.

    • @nealsterling8151
      @nealsterling8151 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, it was too much fun.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jhonbus
      @jhonbus ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @powerbadpowerbad
      @powerbadpowerbad ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Clay3613
    @Clay3613 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @joshythehand2960
      @joshythehand2960 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @laioren
    @laioren ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @AB-jt6ic
    @AB-jt6ic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the recaps.

  • @beezelbuzzel
    @beezelbuzzel ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @gtc9966
    @gtc9966 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @residentgrey
    @residentgrey ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @nunyabizness6595
    @nunyabizness6595 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great Serling imitation. Well done!

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @worf7680
    @worf7680 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @va.melnyk
    @va.melnyk ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @KingOfMadCows
    @KingOfMadCows ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @3MenAndALetsPlay
    @3MenAndALetsPlay ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @biercenator
    @biercenator ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @agoffgrid640
    @agoffgrid640 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @davidbowman2716
    @davidbowman2716 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @averyandlukefuntimechannel5171
    @averyandlukefuntimechannel5171 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    25:37 This wouldn't have stopped RIker.

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine Riker's space STDs.

  • @zEropoint68
    @zEropoint68 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @Clay3613
      @Clay3613 ปีที่แล้ว

      Futurama did it later literally dating a ship.

    • @queenredspecial
      @queenredspecial 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what makes it so romantic. 😊

  • @CoinSlotKitty
    @CoinSlotKitty ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Im glad you went all the way with this episode

  • @sly_botts1189
    @sly_botts1189 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @MousePounder
    @MousePounder ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @DeconvertedMan
      @DeconvertedMan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kaitlyn__L "based on" :D

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @uncledubpowermetal
    @uncledubpowermetal ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @canalesworks1247
      @canalesworks1247 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @jhonbus
    @jhonbus ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @monkeywrench2800
    @monkeywrench2800 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @shep9231
    @shep9231 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @robbicu
    @robbicu ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @larryiscreating
    @larryiscreating ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love these recaps. Thanks for the awesome work 🙏🏾

  • @jamesmc04
    @jamesmc04 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @patgrondin5358
    @patgrondin5358 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @keffey99
    @keffey99 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Haha. That episode with Leah Brahms is excellent.

  • @hartman.4744
    @hartman.4744 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @scoobiesnatches
    @scoobiesnatches ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @ClanOKeefe
      @ClanOKeefe ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You have good taste

    • @queenredspecial
      @queenredspecial 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Sephex
    @Sephex ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @Newbobdole
    @Newbobdole 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @shakestheclone1995
    @shakestheclone1995 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @Xan3119
    @Xan3119 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @st.anselmsfire3547
    @st.anselmsfire3547 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @chrisbullard5901
    @chrisbullard5901 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @mb2000
    @mb2000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @jhonbus
      @jhonbus ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @jamesgoss1860
    @jamesgoss1860 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jonathan_rosa
    @jonathan_rosa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @commiecomrade2644
    @commiecomrade2644 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been waiting for DAYS for this!

  • @OdariArt
    @OdariArt ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @seanmorgan2356
    @seanmorgan2356 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rod Sterling would be proud.

  • @sgt.tattoo9609
    @sgt.tattoo9609 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @adamrenfrow
    @adamrenfrow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They really made Geordi a creep in Galaxies Child.

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @OrangeRiver
      @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @handsome_head_injury6011
    @handsome_head_injury6011 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've seen quite a few of your videos, and until recently, I had thought the name of your channel was "Tyler Here" 🤷‍♂️

  • @Ki_Adi_Mundi
    @Ki_Adi_Mundi ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @XxPunxunite
    @XxPunxunite ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That twilight zone merch ad 😂

  • @julianbermudez_415
    @julianbermudez_415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @moxxy3565
    @moxxy3565 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @AbigatorM
      @AbigatorM ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @CHUCKSCHUMACHER
    @CHUCKSCHUMACHER ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @ogs_Boga1900
      @ogs_Boga1900 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like pizza and beer 🍺

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @binaryghosts5131
    @binaryghosts5131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @kylesells8579
    @kylesells8579 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Man, Guinan was so good.

  • @ArcaneEther
    @ArcaneEther ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You mentioned the Battle of Wolf 359 and the Dominion War at the start of this video and it got me thinking; can Borg Assimilate Changlings?
    The Changlings can alter the genetic makeup of their morphogenic matrices so rapidly, they are immune to most diseases. So would that count for Borg nanomachines as well?
    I've not read any of the Trek novels or other media outside of the main shows, so I don't know if this concept has been approached yet.

    • @NiiRubra
      @NiiRubra ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Changelings would likely present a challenge for the Borg. One of the Borg's most notable characteristics is their cultural focus on adaptability, and so they would likely fully dedicate themselves to adapting to counteract the natural resistance presented by the changelings, it is entirely up for debate if they could succeed in that task, as there is no real evidence of either outcome, but I'm inclined to believe that the Borg eventually would suceed given time, and the opportunity to keep trying.

    • @ArcaneEther
      @ArcaneEther 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NiiRubra Which further begs the question, though. Species 8472 form Voyager were naturally immune to Borg nanomachines, which gave them time to fight back.
      Were it not for Janeway's temporary truce, 8472 might have wiped out the Borg.
      If the Borg needed time to make nanomachines that could assimilate Changlings, I am sure the Dominion would fight back just like 8472 did.

  • @colinleat8309
    @colinleat8309 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @OrangeRiver
      @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @OrangeRiver
      @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @EternalGamingNet
    @EternalGamingNet ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the video!

  • @jymfysher7704
    @jymfysher7704 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @halfsourlizard9319
    @halfsourlizard9319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Literally the first thing that everyone's going to do when holodecks are real is to hook up with someone they have a crush on; seems pretty harmless. I mean, we have no control over who's thinking about us during ... um ... 'me time' 🤷‍♀️

  • @jymfysher7704
    @jymfysher7704 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the ROD SIEGER b&w impersonation.We knew you had it in Ya.And "Naw" Ya didn't give me the idea to go to " DeeP Fake Porn" to have 7 of 9 tell me "Resistance is futile"!!!😊

  • @Raphmatic5000
    @Raphmatic5000 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @SiberianIce2022
    @SiberianIce2022 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved this show.... have fond memories sitting on the floor in my parents' house in front of the couch and watching the magic.
    The only issue I ever got annoyed at...is it seems their computer was always messing up somehow. More than even mine...so, ya.
    Excellent videos....keep up the awesome job...picked yourself up another subscriber!

  • @keffey99
    @keffey99 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good season. Thanks for the memories. :)

  • @totalCoolerUsername
    @totalCoolerUsername ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @OrangeRiver
      @OrangeRiver  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha nope, just a film degree!

  • @Pusher97
    @Pusher97 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “I am not a merry man!” Will forever be the high water mark of this show.

  • @nostrum6410
    @nostrum6410 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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