What prediction (you idiot), this is SOCIAL ENGINEERING...if by "prediction" you mean the same my apologies...but if not, you are like many people who don't recognize what TELL - I - VISION is all about...its name says it all...
Michael Okuda's descriptions of PADDs, tricorders, control panels, etc. in the Star Trek Technical Manual sound like they come from a patent application by Apple or Samsung.
Amazing that in 1991, this episode provides accurate commentary on life in 2018 U.S. Every one is connected always...addictively so, and the alien race toward which we supplicate is Apple, Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. Brilliant episode.
Hmm - I wonder if someone with access to the original footage could re-composite the scenes with actual scenes from Pokemon Go? But to really be "correct", you'd have to show people running through corridors and crawling around Jeffries tubes looking for the beasts. That makes me wonder - *is* there a version of Pokemon Go for the Google Glass, or whatever other augmented reality devices there are?
And it was all the fault of Riker - AKA Serial Space Shagger Extraordinaire - and his never ending mission to penetrate every space chick in the galaxy.
Maybe they programmed the replicators (Starfleet wide) not to create any "harmful psychoactive components" after this little incident? Never mind how the computer figures out whether something *is* a "harmful psychoactive component". I could explain it, but it would involve a bunch of Technobabble and sound like I was Riker in that one with the Ferengi..
I woke up and realized that Facebook had made me fat, lazy, and stressed out, impacted my work- and that I had lost many entire days of my life to it, even whole weekends that I could have spent on self-improvement, education, learning guitar etc.
Replicator in Troi's quarters. Ask for a Katarian Chocolate Zombie Cake with Argelian chocolate shavings. Then go to Ten Forward and watch Star Trek: the Sexed Generation..
This reminds me of Facebook games. They require a little skill, have no ending, and are extremely addicting. I think this is Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to take over the world.
The crazy thing is the game is perfect for Apple Vision Pro because the cameras inside the goggles track your eye movement so you could throw the disks by looking at the funnels.
Okay, just because you shouted! .. Here it is: .. www.flickr.com/photos/av-rescue/28227429946 ... Click on the download icon at the bottom right-hand corner (on that page). .. cheers
Fancy this, everyone on the ship being forced to wear and play the game. I feel like Wesley Crusher trying to avoid being captured and force to play their game when it comes to us being forced to wear a face mask
My favorite part of this episode is when P{icard tells Riker that Wesley will be visiting the Enterprise on a vacation from the Academy and Riker says, "We need the help". The boy is on a vacation from school and your first thought is to put him to work?
some questions about the episode... 1) Did Riker settle with the game, or eventually porked the alien who introduced him to the game? 2)what happened to her? was she paid to do it? forced by the game? 3)who really was the alien who planned the whole thing? what happened to her/them? were they sent to federation prison? on what charges? 4)how does a game that basically drugs you, make you super lucid when not playing yet unaware of the immoral actions you are making? 5)First RIker has to complete the task of the game, but he doesn't know how. Like if he coudln't make it, none of that would have happened. At the end, Wesley doesn't want to play the game, and is forced to by the crew but only because the game itself forces him to complete the task that triggers the brain addiction. WHY MAKE IT A GAME THEN? "Hey, try this game"...Instant endorphine rush, instant brainwash.
1) undecided, would not be surprising. Can you imagine the realease of dopamine getting a frisbee into the cone while also cumming in alien pussy 2. Unknown 3. Unknown 4. It do 5. Its not a game thats the point. Its a neurological mechanism that creates a virtual "game" and triggers huge neurological responses including cognitive reconditioning upon winning the game. But yeah its like being instantly addicted to heroin while also having your entire psyche changed amd pushed away to become an agent
Another star trek thing that is now a reality. We're all zombies now to our phones looking at different things like youtube, Facebook, Instagram horsesheit
Back when Candy Crush was all the rage, people literally greeted me with “which level are you on?” I tried to refer to this episode, but they never saw any Star Trek. Maybe that’s why they’d fallen for the game.
Every time I watch this episode I think it’s funny how one of the commanding officers brings this on board the ship without going through some kind of testing process to make sure it’s safe
@@robjackson5245 If I remember right, the Klingon sisters with a stolen Bird of Prey. Either way, the group of super geniuses on board the Enterprise-D never check Geordi and he gets shield modulation frequency. Actually I take it all back, we got to see Data say 'shit' with seriousness, it is all good.... I take it all back with 'The Game' too, one of those episodes where everybody but Wesley is an idiot, even Jean Luc, and Ashley Judd makes an appearance.
The episode: *an insightful metaphor for the way the government was trying to control the population by way of drug addiction, entrapment, and drug trade and how addiction can make a person do things they would never do, like attack a friend or even their own child* the comments: PoKeMoN gO Like, cmon, they're only even superficially related. Both are video games that are AR games. That's it! This had nothing to do with Pokemon Go and didn't predict shit. It was a commentary on current events at the time.
I believe the game works as not something that you need to concentrate on... In the episode itself, one of the users advises Wesley to just "Let the game play itself." This leads me to think that you don't necessarily have to "play" the game, just enjoy its effects. Hope this helped :)!
+peyhag I think it's more about establishing a certain type of brainwave (like alpha or theta waves) that you can only get when you're relaxed... A sort of biofeedback. Not sure how that relates to launching the disc though, because it looks like you can also miss!
Ok, What if this episode is an allegory for sexual abstinence. The game is about the consequences of sex and STD's. Riker (obviously) got it from an alien prostitute that looks like she has a vagina in the forehead, then every other character get introduced to "the game" always like a sexual innuendo. Of course, Wesley Crusher and her girlfriend Ashley Judd, dont want to succumb to peer pressure. Now the freaky part with my interpretation is the scene with Wesley's mom, thats just weird.
Huguirur I like your interpretation of this episode, "the game" as a form of sexual innuendo. If I was in this situation, I would not be able to resist playing "the game". Both the social pressure and the pleasure of playing "the game".
This embodies the greatness of Star Trek- especially the Next Generation. This episode seemed so futuristic when it aired and then a couple decades later... Here we are. Meanwhile whenever I receive a Candy Crush Game invitation on Facebook I always give it a big fat NO! Now-- everybody on Facebook is all hopped up on submitting their images to some computer-based avatar generator. No one explains why they're driven to do it. Guess all the cool nerds are doing it? I was stunned when even Captain Picard caved to this game!
I wonder - is AR technology today up to the point where someone could actually *make* this as a joke, and (hopefully) minus the psychoactive part? You'd have to be able to make the AR image able to completely *cover* the scene (not just be a translucent overlay). Unless you wanted to go full-on wrap-around googles.
This pretty much sums up cell phones. Everyone is looking at their screens and not engaging in the world around them hoping to get a like or thumbs up on a post to social media.
Back when this came out it was a metaphor for crank, which was rearing its ugly head at that point. Now it’s people on their smart phones who stop in the middle of activity, hallways, store aisles and streets.
STAR TREK PREDICTED POKEMON GO! WOW! This is Pokemon Go right here. HOLY!!!! HA HA!! Another thing Star Trek got right. Its the end of the world as we know it. ha ha ha.
Can you imagine what it must have been like during filming? Director: "Ok....Will...Get on the bed with Ashley and start....you know....feel excited, start breathing heavily......just pretend you are about to blow your load" Will: Who has to pretend!" Director: Wait, what?! CUT! Wardrobe! Need new clothes and bed sheets...Will did it again.
The only thing unrealistic about it is the lack of microtransactions!
Not true. This game looks like it wouldn't make it past Q&A for the Dreamcast.
@@SirBlackReeds not if it's thought controlled, and connected to your feelgood system.
EA be like:. $34.99 to continue to the next level.
I mean they did almost give the devs the Enterprise as a reward!
My dad described this game as a drug when l was a kid. It pretty much is
Wow, Star trek accurately predicted the future of the human race back in 1992.
What prediction (you idiot), this is SOCIAL ENGINEERING...if by "prediction" you mean the same my apologies...but if not, you are like many people who don't recognize what TELL - I - VISION is all about...its name says it all...
Michael Okuda's descriptions of PADDs, tricorders, control panels, etc. in the Star Trek Technical Manual sound like they come from a patent application by Apple or Samsung.
@@cogwheel42 thats because they consulted actual experts in science fields that were working on tech that was likely to be available in the future
Predicted or predictive programming?
It's like people in a crowded place all looking at their cellphones.
John Mitchell my thoughts exactly!!!!
I searched this video so I could come and see if anyone also had that thought about this episode.
If our phones could give us a cranial orgasm
Without any physical interaction on our part, then we really would stop doing anything else
@@odom2142 me too 😁😁
That is unrealistic...
Amazing that in 1991, this episode provides accurate commentary on life in 2018 U.S.
Every one is connected always...addictively so, and the alien race toward which we supplicate is Apple, Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. Brilliant episode.
While the children keep saying "Pokemon Go" you get the truth.
The alien race are psychopaths. Having the most control in our society.
4 years later, replace Snapchat with TikTok. Or add TikTok, I'm not sure Snapchat is still a thing tbh.
That has to be some serious serotonin, dopamin and endorphine pushing stuff.. as the the gameplay looks really bad lol.
+Ingen Ting You mean, like a 3d version of Angry Birds that you control with your mind? Yeah, sounds terrible.
Damn, I really loved this episode - was one of the most interesting and well written ones in my opinion.
Playing the game WITH a young Ashley Judd.
Almost makes having the Federation overrun by the Ktarians worth it.
This is the epitome of video gaming. It's all downhill from here folks.
Social media
Damn Ashley Judd is smoking
My thoughts exactly when I first noticed the Pokemon Go craze.
Funny to read all this comments..from people sitting staring at a desktop for hours.
true!
true!
A computer stays at home, a phone is something you can take with you everywhere, giving you an incetive to use it all the time
Sent from my iPhone.
As soon as I read about Google Glasses and saw the eye wear, I thought about this episode.
It has BEGUN!!
Android: First, we get them on phones like sensors. Apple: next we get them to wear it on their wrists!
Should have been a 2 parter - it was that good.
Pokemon Go
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. lmfao
Me too!
Hmm - I wonder if someone with access to the original footage could re-composite the scenes with actual scenes from Pokemon Go? But to really be "correct", you'd have to show people running through corridors and crawling around Jeffries tubes looking for the beasts.
That makes me wonder - *is* there a version of Pokemon Go for the Google Glass, or whatever other augmented reality devices there are?
Perfect metaphor for cellphone addiction in our culture today
And, apparently, decades ahead of its time.
And it was all the fault of Riker - AKA Serial Space Shagger Extraordinaire - and his never ending mission to penetrate every space chick in the galaxy.
one of the best episodes!!!
It reminds me of scrolling though endless TikToks.
The first time in my life I ever saw 3D graphics was this episode of TNG.
0:50 min: is that Ashley Judd?
She's a nasty woman
The biggest surprise is that nobody else tried this. Maybe Starfleet has a secret memory erase flash just like in MiB.
Maybe they programmed the replicators (Starfleet wide) not to create any "harmful psychoactive components" after this little incident? Never mind how the computer figures out whether something *is* a "harmful psychoactive component". I could explain it, but it would involve a bunch of Technobabble and sound like I was Riker in that one with the Ferengi..
Jim Witte
Lol yeah. I guess it was a BIG success, otherwise there would be bunch of hijacked ships!
This episode was really ahead of its time.
Pokemon Go. Meant to create zombies.
Lets just forget about the fact we all need to be out and active to catch them? lol!
I woke up and realized that Facebook had made me fat, lazy, and stressed out, impacted my work- and that I had lost many entire days of my life to it, even whole weekends that I could have spent on self-improvement, education, learning guitar etc.
24 century version of game addiction :)
vaporwave as fuck
Ashley Judd :)
She's a nasty woman
Is there a pokestop on the USS enterprise?
Replicator in Troi's quarters. Ask for a Katarian Chocolate Zombie Cake with Argelian chocolate shavings. Then go to Ten Forward and watch Star Trek: the Sexed Generation..
The new apple focus pro
This reminds me of Facebook games. They require a little skill, have no ending, and are extremely addicting. I think this is Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to take over the world.
the effects of this does exactly what Bloxorz does
This is like a prediction of social media
The crazy thing is the game is perfect for Apple Vision Pro because the cameras inside the goggles track your eye movement so you could throw the disks by looking at the funnels.
This game makes you so addicted
I highly doubt it. I think it's a warning about pleasurable mind control.
SOMEONE PLEASE UPLOAD THAT TERRIFYING SMILE THAT WIL WHEATON DOES IN THE HALLWAY
Okay, just because you shouted! .. Here it is: .. www.flickr.com/photos/av-rescue/28227429946 ... Click on the download icon at the bottom right-hand corner (on that page). .. cheers
Fancy this, everyone on the ship being forced to wear and play the game. I feel like Wesley Crusher trying to avoid being captured and force to play their game when it comes to us being forced to wear a face mask
That, and "Have you got the vaccine shot(s) yet?"
My favorite part of this episode is when P{icard tells Riker that Wesley will be visiting the Enterprise on a vacation from the Academy and Riker says, "We need the help". The boy is on a vacation from school and your first thought is to put him to work?
This is why I won't play Pokémon Go.
I came here because I was looking for a meme about this and Pokemon Go.
this was on tv this morning I thought the very same thing.
ME TOO lol...
I told a friend that me and all my family were hooked on Pokemon GO. He sent me this.
I think Pokemon is the reason why this episode, out of all the episodes made, has aired now.
Or perhaps more forwardly, an insight on how technology affects people.
Pokemon Go in a nutshell.
Google Glass for the 80's?
The 90's. This was 1991. Is everything is "the 80's" to your gen?
But can it run Crysis?
A game without pop-up ads? This IS Sci-Fi!
some questions about the episode...
1) Did Riker settle with the game, or eventually porked the alien who introduced him to the game?
2)what happened to her? was she paid to do it? forced by the game?
3)who really was the alien who planned the whole thing? what happened to her/them? were they sent to federation prison? on what charges?
4)how does a game that basically drugs you, make you super lucid when not playing yet unaware of the immoral actions you are making?
5)First RIker has to complete the task of the game, but he doesn't know how. Like if he coudln't make it, none of that would have happened.
At the end, Wesley doesn't want to play the game, and is forced to by the crew but only because the game itself forces him to complete the task that triggers the brain addiction. WHY MAKE IT A GAME THEN?
"Hey, try this game"...Instant endorphine rush, instant brainwash.
1) undecided, would not be surprising. Can you imagine the realease of dopamine getting a frisbee into the cone while also cumming in alien pussy
2. Unknown
3. Unknown
4. It do
5. Its not a game thats the point. Its a neurological mechanism that creates a virtual "game" and triggers huge neurological responses including cognitive reconditioning upon winning the game. But yeah its like being instantly addicted to heroin while also having your entire psyche changed amd pushed away to become an agent
Yes.
Another star trek thing that is now a reality. We're all zombies now to our phones looking at different things like youtube, Facebook, Instagram horsesheit
The end with all the officers forcing you to play is just absolutely right off!
Absolute Pokemon Go
Americans are addicted to smart phones and computer games. Great episode!
I had the exact same thoughts.
Back when Candy Crush was all the rage, people literally greeted me with “which level are you on?”
I tried to refer to this episode, but they never saw any Star Trek.
Maybe that’s why they’d fallen for the game.
In 2023 the cone would be social media posts and the discs would be how much positive feedback we could get per post.
Why hasn't someone made this yet?
They have. It's called the internet/social media.
Pokemon Go.
a e s t h e t i c
This is what Candy Crush makes me think of nowadays.
This is real now. There are mods for hololens that track eye movement and you can move the disc into the vortex...
Every time I watch this episode I think it’s funny how one of the commanding officers brings this on board the ship without going through some kind of testing process to make sure it’s safe
Geordi Laforge got taken hostage by Klingons and nobody checked him out to see if there was not manipulation of some sort, almost got them killed.
@@jrus690 you mean Romulans
@@robjackson5245 If I remember right, the Klingon sisters with a stolen Bird of Prey. Either way, the group of super geniuses on board the Enterprise-D never check Geordi and he gets shield modulation frequency. Actually I take it all back, we got to see Data say 'shit' with seriousness, it is all good.... I take it all back with 'The Game' too, one of those episodes where everybody but Wesley is an idiot, even Jean Luc, and Ashley Judd makes an appearance.
@@jrus690 It's "The Mind's Eye" which is Romulans, bro.
@@jrus690 I don't recall an episode with Geordi and the Klingons.
The episode: *an insightful metaphor for the way the government was trying to control the population by way of drug addiction, entrapment, and drug trade and how addiction can make a person do things they would never do, like attack a friend or even their own child*
the comments: PoKeMoN gO
Like, cmon, they're only even superficially related. Both are video games that are AR games. That's it! This had nothing to do with Pokemon Go and didn't predict shit. It was a commentary on current events at the time.
people born in the 80 ' s should remember this and not mess with that poke mon go
It's the Google glass!
cell phones...
How long go you think it will take before we have this game for google glass?
Blue, Red, Trumpets...? Hmmm
I can't find it on Netflix... Is it called something else?
Wait til they (re)discover Tetris!
this is worse then the time Worf put LSD in Picards earl gray
After this episode, Wil Wheaton went onto massive success as an actor, while no one heard from Ashley Judd again
Come on. It's Will "3 Ocars" Wheaton.
can some1 tell me how this game works? wut u keep an eye for sec on disk and then look at that "tube" or what?
I believe the game works as not something that you need to concentrate on... In the episode itself, one of the users advises Wesley to just "Let the game play itself." This leads me to think that you don't necessarily have to "play" the game, just enjoy its effects. Hope this helped :)!
+peyhag I think it's more about establishing a certain type of brainwave (like alpha or theta waves) that you can only get when you're relaxed... A sort of biofeedback. Not sure how that relates to launching the disc though, because it looks like you can also miss!
This seems to be a metaphor for listening to music from a Compact Disk....
The tubes are EAR DRUMS..
Ok, What if this episode is an allegory for sexual abstinence. The game is about the consequences of sex and STD's. Riker (obviously) got it from an alien prostitute that looks like she has a vagina in the forehead, then every other character get introduced to "the game" always like a sexual innuendo. Of course, Wesley Crusher and her girlfriend Ashley Judd, dont want to succumb to peer pressure.
Now the freaky part with my interpretation is the scene with Wesley's mom, thats just weird.
Huguirur I like your interpretation of this episode, "the game" as a form of sexual innuendo. If I was in this situation, I would not be able to resist playing "the game". Both the social pressure and the pleasure of playing "the game".
This embodies the greatness of Star Trek- especially the Next Generation. This episode seemed so futuristic when it aired and then a couple decades later... Here we are. Meanwhile whenever I receive a Candy Crush Game invitation on Facebook I always give it a big fat NO!
Now-- everybody on Facebook is all hopped up on submitting their images to some computer-based avatar generator. No one explains why they're driven to do it. Guess all the cool nerds are doing it?
I was stunned when even Captain Picard caved to this game!
@fiatknox actually, its a slingshot
When Pokemon Go runs on Android
Star Trek predicted social media..
Smartphones basically.
Mobile games are really designed to psychologically manipulate the fuck out of you to get you to pay and keep paying.
@@usul573 The alien race who made it almost got them to pay an entire starship. Pretty good manipulation imo
We all play this game now.
I wonder - is AR technology today up to the point where someone could actually *make* this as a joke, and (hopefully) minus the psychoactive part? You'd have to be able to make the AR image able to completely *cover* the scene (not just be a translucent overlay). Unless you wanted to go full-on wrap-around googles.
I can't believe I've never seen this episode until very recently. Pokemon Go on the Enterprise? Really?
Is the whole episode worth watching?
It's weird, but ok.
This pretty much sums up cell phones. Everyone is looking at their screens and not engaging in the world around them hoping to get a like or thumbs up on a post to social media.
Haha 25 years before P Go.
"I found a game for buddies"
So is it a coincidence that there are 42 holes in the playfield? I don't think so.
I'd love to try the game :P
Back when this came out it was a metaphor for crank, which was rearing its ugly head at that point.
Now it’s people on their smart phones who stop in the middle of activity, hallways, store aisles and streets.
STAR TREK PREDICTED POKEMON GO! WOW! This is Pokemon Go right here. HOLY!!!! HA HA!! Another thing Star Trek got right. Its the end of the world as we know it. ha ha ha.
That's the first thing I thought! That's why I'm watching this video too.
But Pokemon go is not connected to the dopamine centers in the brain. Nor does it use mind control. :)
Not yet anyway.. :)
Stay Tuned. Lol
This episode: What If...? Starfleet played Candy Crush.
October 28, 1991 AIR DATE......btw how did they make cigarettes so addictive ...what scientists helped?
Predictive programming then came fruit ninja, candy crush, pokemon go, etc .
I came here to post how it looked like Google Glass and I am not disappointed.
Can you imagine what it must have been like during filming?
Director: "Ok....Will...Get on the bed with Ashley and start....you know....feel excited, start breathing heavily......just pretend you are about to blow your load"
Will: Who has to pretend!"
Director: Wait, what?! CUT! Wardrobe! Need new clothes and bed sheets...Will did it again.
This episode gave the Chinese government the idea to create tik tok and its working brilliantly.
I can’t wait for the candy crush version of this 😊
Reminds me of flappy bird.
THAT IS #2 GAME OF THE CENTURY ATF SAYS SHUT IT DOWN HIGHLY ADDICTIVE TH-cam THERE
So... this ISNT a cover of Queen?
Dang it!!
It's a free world... all you have to dooo is fall in love
YES exactly! Same here!
This is why I will never choose to go with a VR headset.