Star Trek: TNG Review - 6x8 A Fistful of Datas | Reverse Angle
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- The Good, the Bad, and the Klingon.
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Sources:
Wolfe, Robert Hewitt, and Brannon Braga. “A Fistful of Datas.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry, Season 6, Episode 8, Paramount Television, CBS, 1992.
Deinonychus lived during the early Cretaceous Period.
Lucas, George, director. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. 20th Century Fox, 1977.
Interrupted by Data...and Geordi's beard 😆😆
There's a funny behind the scene's outtake about this.
Brent: Geordi, didn't you have a beard?
Le Var: Yeah, but the producers didn't like it
*both shrug*
You didn't know Geordi's visor lets him see through the fourth wall?
I'm in the group that remembers this one fondly. What still stands out is when Worf decides this might be fun and seeing Troi put her boots up with a smoke.
Back in the 90s we loved TV characters acting like goofy caricatures.
I love the 90s.
It took me until the second viewing to realize that the reason Worf was giving himself so much work at the beginning of the episode was so he can avoid going on the holodeck. It’s too bad he felt that way as a father.
I honestly don't get why they keep the holodeck around if it regularly malfunctions with potentially lethal consequences. It's the most questionable use of leisure technology outside of Jurassic Park.
Rule 34. 😉
i love me some goofy Data. i think you're in for a great stretch of episodes from here on out!
Starship Mine is in this season!
I would have loved a spin-off series with Worf and his son in his adult years, going on missions and adventures.
That outro music was an awesome touch, love these Star Trek reviews!
Patrick Stewart is English, he's actually from Yorkshire in a small place called Mirfield, which is about 30 minutes drive from me.
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English, you say? We couldn't tell.
Ya know something? I just realized, you guys are just like the Nitpickers Guide to Star Trek!!! Only more fun! :)
I love this episode for the western aspect, but I agree the episode should’ve been more of Worf and Alexander finding common ground.
I keep thinking of the “Yankee Liar” scene in “Shane”, and wondering how much better this episode would’ve been if Worf turned to his Klingon customs and stories of Kahless to motivate the townspeople to his side.
It would also build the ongoing Alexander arc where he finds things in Klingon culture he does like.
"Prove it!" Phenomenal movie. Thing is, by the look of it I don't think Star Trek writers know much or care about Westerns. Nor felt like putting as much thought in this episode as you did.
"This is where the analytics drop because we didn't laugh - stop laughing!"
lul
The Enterprise was parked too close to that Oberth... it could've exploded at any moment!
The Music at the End was perfect :D You never dissapoint!
That music at the end was perfect 😂
Love the end music, my jammy.
I hope you guys are going to review Deep Space Nine next. Plenty of dumb Ferengis to bash on.
Was Brent Spiner just constantly begging the writers to do episodes where he could play multiple characters?
The "old west" will never be called the "ancient west".
it has “Data” in the title, yet it’s a Worf Episode
Can't wait for your reviews of Star Trek Voyager and hopefully the Red Dwarf series! We know, it could take a lifetime just to do all the Star Trek reviews! But regardless, love the SciFi reviews---We don't always agree with you guys, but mostly we do!!
Is it possible to combine the Holodeck with replicator technology? So they can drink real drinks I’m the old west?
Is this a stupid question?
Worf really was good at his job, despite being paid dust so many times on the Enterprise.
Mentioning "The standard Jumanji-esque, if we can reach the end of the game the game will end" notion at the end of this review is pretty funny to me. "Jumanji", the film that popularized "Jumanji-esque" concepts (one would assume) came out in 1995. "A Fistful of Datas" came out in 1992.
Really, that whole concept might very well have been popularized with this episode (probably not though as I assume that idea had to have been used before somewhere else), but it certainly wasn't imitating a notion that came out 3 years after the episode aired, at least.
Oh, Troi's in this episode?
I like how some of the writing advice on this was solid and heartfelt and appreciative …and not just snide
I’m really looking forward to the long list of awesome and successful episodes you two have written.
Were these writers under pressure to write quickly like in 60's Dr Who? I get they did not have the internet & resources were taxed, but it's just that you have so many amazing characters in this show but they keep being stunted by austere writing. Terribly sad in a way!
Amazing work as always Robert, really fantastic that you go to all this effort. You are my favorite creator on TH-cam. Oh...err...and the other guy...what was his name again? Pretty sure he's played by Christopher Lambert hehehe
Data's storage capacity is stated as being 100 Petabytes in another episode. I'm not sure if that's enough to serve as a back up drive for the ships computer. I would think not. Anyway, you think they would install a hard kill switch on the damn holodeck after it malfunctioned over and over.
I like to think that they did try to do that, but the project got stuck in committee when no one could agree on what the kill switch phrase would be. Since the TNG world apparently runs on some sort of utopian space communism I imagine a lot of projects gets stuck in the bureaucratic phase.
Spot on comment on the season as a whole; "Star Trek Light". This was indeed their "fun/light" season. I don't mind the episodes in here, however they weren't nearly as enjoyable as Season 3 or 4.
I agree with the C or could be talked into a C-. It wasn't horrible, just kind of one of those fun episodes, that wasn't quite as fun as it should have.
By the way have you guys thought about putting in some fun end credits such as "Geordi's Beard" at the end?
Bonus point, we got to see Troi in leather.
I'd rather not see Troi at all
A matter of taste. And the fact that I has some' Had me snorting
Was he Eli Data when Deanna told Eli who she was?
Maybe the jail cell was away from the Sheriff’s Office?
Geordi's beard is such a great character. I wish the writers did more with him!
The flute doesn't work, it is just a prop!
Didn't Jumanji come out after this?
Made a beard drinking game out of this.
Nick: I have rewritten the entire episode.
Rob: yeah, that would've been good.
I also like how you referred to Levarr as Geordie's Beard. It was pretty awful. Maybe they were trying to recreate the Beardening, when Riker grew a beard and the series got markedly better.
Feeling some similar tones among these videos.
"I hate everything. I also love everything, I give it less than a B-"
I've always hated the episodes that have to do with using the holodeck to go back to a certain time period
It was because of budget reasons. They could use sets that already existed at Paramount's lots and didn't need to build new sets for new planets/locations.
I love that he sounded like Bob Wheeler. Lol!!!!
I don’t remember this episode at all. I always wondered if there was a episode of trek that I missed.
Consider yourself fortunate ... I *do* remember this steaming pile...
I know he is a kid but, man, Alexanders actor was just god-awful. There are a lot better child actors around his age so I wonder how he ended up with the role, probably someone on the shows son.
What would Trek be without holodeck malfunctions....
We'd never see Riker again ...
Two things I hate most. Trapped in the holodeck... And Alexander
Talk about your Corrupted Data ! Enterprise needs to run Check Disk and Defrag, and Virus Scanners more often ...
I was thinking about rewatching TNG this year, but I'm just going to watch all the Reverse Angle TNG episodes instead.
Why ddo you keep saying Geordi's Beard?
You forgot to mention Troi warned Worf that the villains in the Old West do not keep their promises, and that's what gave him the idea to construct a defensive force field (as you seem to have a problem recognizing Troi as a meaningful character for this series and generally only enjoy her scenes if she is being hit by an super-strong aliens looking like children)
An episode that started good and fun but then didn't have a satisfying end.
I give first half of episode an A
Second half of episode a D
Great title
if the holodeck can
perfectly replicate
DATA
then why can't it be used
along with the
transporter to make actual
DATA copies ?
Alexander reprising his role as the worst character prior to Voyager.
Oh, come on, Alexander is only like 0.25 Trois of annoyingness
I honestly thought originally this was gonna be a Lore episode
I too miss Season 4 ...to this day.
Data and Bob Wheeler have become one.
They make use of the ship models from Star Trek 3 all the time.
It's funny that someone would know the name of the garbage compactor eel from Star Wars.
I wonder if the holodeck refuses to stop the program when people are using it to have sex. Safewords and consent seem like they would justify MUCH BETTER failsafe mechanisms.
Jumanji did not exist when this episode was made
🤠❤️ A Fistful of Latinum.
ALEXANDER
had more character growth than
HARRY NO PERSONALITY KIM
I’d like to visit Durango
Oh yeah and eat dr crusher’s breakfast
"we hated this episode and we both rate it a Z+"
"annoying laughing"
rinse and repeat for all episodes
Never liked it at all. Straight up D episode at best.
I think that Brent Spiner overacting his western mannerisms I think can/could be easily explainable by him taking on code/a personality from an intentionally stereotypical western program.
The holodeck episodes are so cringe.