This is my favorite episode. Because it contains one of my favorite lines of all time: "if there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe".
I liked all the computer conversations in this one. Including when she asks whether she's able to fulfil the ship's mission alone, and why, and the computer is stumped.
That's a pretty serious design flaw. Smart computer. But speaking of design flaws ... All the people in this shrinking bubble-universe kept vanishing, they'd cease to exist once their origins fell "outside" the universe's finite (and closing) boundary/domain. While the starship and the computer and other technologies on board continued to persist - even though these constructs were all made by people who no longer existed in places which no longer existed.
@@pwnmeisterage People's origins being outside the shrinking universe wasn't the reason they were disappearing. It wouldn't make sense for Geordi to disappear before Picard, for example, since both were born on Earth. People were disappearing because Crusher's thoughts created the universe, and she was thinking about all the *people* that she knew that had passed away (thanks to a comment by Doctor Quaice). Therefore, *people* disappeared but the ship remained even as it made no logical sense in that universe. The only reason that the planets also disappeared is because the warp bubble was collapsing, which of course *did* in fact also cause the ship to disappear.
I've always had this episode as the best use of Vulcan logic EVER. "what's the mission of this vessel? can I complete it myself? then why am I here all alone?" _computer.exe has stopped working_
You know, it would have been awesome if there was a Vulcan crew member, or more interactions wth a logical being like Data, with Crusher trying to logic them into breaking their own beliefs..lol
I love how, when Beverly can't believe they are now a crew of two and Picard simply says "We never needed a crew before." Like it's natural only to have two people on a ship meant for 1114 people!
Especially considering how sizable the enterprise is. If you compare it to actual navy ships, you'd find the Enterprise would be more suited for many tens of thousands of crew, with the size it has. But I suppose 2 will do just fine, especially if you have the computer, especially if your ship is most of the universe.
@@MaxArceus That's what I never understood. Of course you make the ship bigger than the original; but why make it 600 meters long and then put only a thousand people on it? Never made any sense.
And by this time the universe had shrank so much they were likely the only people in the universe anyways. But what if it's happening to us? Like my car has 4 seats but I almost never use more than 1-2?!? Or what about the spare bedroom!?!? Who am I forgetting?? Was a very fun episode though.
Fun Fact:Gates McFadden did all her own stunts in this episode. Not long after filming, she realized she was pregnant, and was pregnant the whole time she filmed.
I've always felt this episode to be a bit frightening. The nature of the universe... a spheroid region of 705 meters... and getting smaller every second.
Makes me think the universe was probably shrinking from almost the moment she was in the bubble. But it was only once it got fairly small that the ships sensors were able to detect it.
It's even more frightening to think about the nature of the REAL universe, not in Star Trek or any other tv show, no just for real. Does it go on for ever, is is there somewhere a barrier which we can't cross. The first options seems so unthinkable, something being infinite. The other makes that unthinkable idea go away, but raises the next question, if there is a barrier, an edge to real space, what's behind it?
Another universe. Multi-verse theory is that we are in one universe surrounded by trillions, maybe infinite other universes. The "barrier" would be a shift in dimensions. Likely something we wouldn't be able to perceive naturally. Very likely the universe is curved.
@@Snowwie88 The universe is finite but very large. The problem with it's edge is that we can not reach it. The universe expands faster than the speed of light so since we can't even travel at some degree of lightspeed the continuing travel towards an edge would take an infinite amount of time and we won't have that long. Behind the edge is something we can't see, but it is having a huge amount of attraction to our universe since the speed of the expansion of the universe is increasing. So there has to be something that has enough gravitational power to pull our universe towards to.
The difference between the Traveller and Q. Traveller: "Wesley, there is another way to find the warp bubble. Here, let me help you." Q: (snaps fingers) "There, she's back, although I can't see what all the fuss is about. Now, if you don't mind, I've got a meddlesome tribe on Nebulon 4 to mess with."
@@thewewguy8t88 Q can manipulate universal constant, so with a snap of finger, he can expand the bubble universe into normal universe. There, Beverly would never find out she was in another universe.
@@Civsuccess2 Would that mean, theoretically, that regions of space are larger and smaller due to those constants? And if so, how would you go from a much larger universe to say, the size or a warp bubble or smaller? Can this explain the possibility of someone ceasing to exist in the universe, due to the fact that limited constraints shifted someone out of it?
If you examine the themes of early TNG, Wesley represented what the Q Continuum most feared, an evolved humanity that would rival them sooner than they were prepared for.
1. The red uniform was definitely Wesley's best look. 2. Strangely ironic that all Beverly had to do was let go and let the vortex suck her in. 3. That bit with Picard disappearing was one of the spookiest bits on TNG.
"Computer, what is the nature of the universe?" "The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter." "Great scott! We've explored it all! We can go home now!"
This is one of my favourite Star Trek episodes. Its so terrifying to imagine being trapped in a situation like that, with people ceasing to exist all around you and nobody else being able to perceive it.
This episode scared the crap out of me when I was young but in a good way. People disappearing one at a time but only random people at the beginning, it’s like a mystery cause no one knows what you are talking about or why you seem to know these people. It really reminds me... and the name as well reminds me of those young adult novels we probably all read as kids, you know... Christopher Pike books. Where the whole world has gone mad and the only person that seems to notice is you. The story just kept getting better when it becomes so very obvious that you are clearly in the right and everyone else must be under some kind of mind control or drug to not notice. It’s utterly indulgent, this type of story structure, something from my childhood, it’s like that dusty town in the middle of America somewhere at 40 degrees and you and a couple of your friends discover something and the world you know and love changes. A perfect story in my opinion.
Among other things this episode is also a great example of applying analytical thinking and logic in incomprehensible scenarios. It even mostly refrains from dipping into technobabble for the solution, and relies on Crusher managing to work it out by herself (in addition to it trying to push the Wesley prodigy idea)
This show (and in particular this episode) is a masterpiece. Writing and crafting is everything. The fact it didn't consume the GDP of a little country to make it, makes it even better!
The idea of explosive decompression of those forward decks into some incomprehensible nothingness scared me as a kid. The screen says "HABITABLE SECTIONS VENTING TO VACUUM", but there's not even vacuum forward of those areas. What does that kind of nothingness even look like? Where does the air even go? What would happen to you if you were in there? Damn unsettling episode.
I liked the premise, yes very SciFi but so is the show. But the way the drama of her situation was portrayed was very well done I think. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
3:05 - 3:15 nearly made me crap myself as a kid. At that time, I was only 6 years old, and I honestly thought that the Enterprise computer knew the real nature of our universe.
What is cool is it depicts realistically how the computer adapts to the ship "not existing". Since the REALITY is collapsing on itself the computer doesn't even acknowledge the ship ever contained the forward section lol. Which would make sense.
@@GaySatanicClowns Yes he was definitely, he was always overreacting, without any thought of the consequences. One of the reasons why he wasn't as loved by the fans as other characters. But it was just the way he was written, blame the writers and show producer's for that. 😁😁👍👍
Having read comparisons of this "TNG" episode to "Poltergeist: The Legacy" series... it's no coincidence Dominic Keating acted on that and "Enterprise". Too many to list from "Next Gen" to "Outer Limits"!
This was such a great example of what an obnoxious, entitled, brat Wesley was. *Especially* given the fact that by this point he was allowed to wear a uniform and act as an ensign, it is ridiculous that he ignores direct orders from a superior officer (who happens to be the chief engineer) just because he isn't done with his pet project yet! That he nearly erased his mother from existence should have seen him locked in the brig with no gadgets to play with!
I liked Wesley, he's young and smart, he didn't think what he was doing would cause harm, he only thought that he would be helping everyone. Disobeying orders and the difference of a few seconds wasn't what caused this rift. His exploration of science caused this, but no one could have known. It was a mistake but it was brave, something all great scientists run into. It boggles me that the Star Trek community hates him so much.
How exactly is Wesley an obnoxious, entitled, brat? His mother is the Chief Medical officer of a ship captained by the very man who served with her husband Jack, who was Wesley's father. I would point out that Captain Picard admitted in the first episode that he was uncomfortable around children. We find out later in the series that it stemmed from problems that he had with his own childhood. I would also point out that Commander Riker never had an easy relationship with his own father, so, he should have considered that given that Wesley's father died while under the command of Captain Picard. Worf should also be particularly understanding about Wesley given the fact that he lost his parents at the hands of the Romulans, being raised by human parents, and having to deal with being treated badly by people who saw your people as the enemy for generations. Nobody forced Captain Picard to make Wesley an acting Ensign and nobody forced the Captain to make it official. He did it on his own authority as Captain of the Enterprise. I think that the problem that people like you, and others, have towards Wesley is stupid to begin with given that you are all hating on a character and not a real person. Now, having said that, from my perspective, the reason why people take issue with Wesley is because, unlike the others, he did not learn things from going through Star Fleet but he learned in his own way because he is gifted.
Typically when you are zapped by a heavy dosage of ultra active particles you die from Radiation poisoning or are incinerated on the spot. Instead it zaps one person ignoring the whole area around that person into a warp bubble.
One of my favourite episodes. Not sure why it took Beverly so long to work out it was her who had moved though. Makes you wonder if you exist and everything you see, feel and hear around you is in the mind. Alternatively are we each part of someone else's imagination, or does everything corporeal merely exist within our minds? Is there really a universe? Is it really big? Or is it only as big as we perceive?
Have you ever read The Neverending Story? The main character takes forever to work things out, he might as well have been the antagonist rather than the protagonist.
I'm glad the new show did a reference to this episode, bringing wesley back, but he no longer goes by that name he now also calls himself the traveler...
Freaky episode. So he is something I always wondered. On the first attempt, if she had gone through and taken someone with her from the bubble universe, would they still exist?
bring a better question, was everyone in the bubble at one point, and all got sucked into the light like she did at the end? Thats why they kept disappearing? So was there only the person missing in the beginning on the real enterprise and rest got sucked through as they disappeared? think they would of mentioned that at the end of the episode..
@@jonathandrummond in exists in both the real end of bubble universe so therefore it would have remained and she's the only person that perceives all the changes for everyone else it just seems normal. At the start of the episode when she first becomes trapped in the warp bubble Universe the universe is still pretty substantial in size seeing the ship leave the starbase headed for its next mission. It only shrinks down real small when she is trying to head to Tau Alpha C.
This is proof that people who dismiss the first two seasons of TNG as unpopular at the time are *wrong.* If that were the case, why bring back the Traveler in Season 4? It was a cool surprise for those of us watching this episode "live" on TV in 1990 because we enjoyed those early episodes and the show just got better and better as time went on. That's how it's _supposed_ to work, after all. A show should get better as it progresses and the writers/producers find their footing. But TNG was still accepted by the vast majority of Star Trek fans from the beginning even before reaching its "Golden Era" of Seasons 3-5.
All you have said is correct, I don't understand the dismissive attribute towards anything before 'BOBW' either. For the fans like me who were watching it as released back in the day, loved every episode. We hadn't had any Trek for 25 years, we were lapping up every minute that was broadcast. Thanks for your input.
Although an interesting episode in some ways, it does rather feel like a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits script shoe-horned into TNG. There were times when the show became a sort of template to try wacky stuff from writers - these types of TNG episodes can be quite enjoyable, but they can also break the sense of consistent heightened reality that runs through most of them.
I don’t know why people dislike Wesley I mean like what’s wrong with him. He’s smart intelligent enough to be catch the eye of a Star fleet captain. I think it’s just pure jealousy that you all couldn’t be on that ship and make it to acting ensign.
You can think Star Trek is stupid and for nerds, but dude ... This episode, regardless of what you think WAS / IS ABSOLUTELY DISTURBING Are you sure the universe is what you think it is?
Paradoxically, the universe is exactly what you think it is. Even this episode plays on that premise. People and objects are vanishing for Mrs Crusher because her first thoughts upon entering the warp bubble were emotions of loss.
Oh! Why did you edit out Picard and Beverly hugging after they get Beverly back and only show her hugging Wesley? 4:49 Like how Wesley straightens his uniform before he hugs his mother.
Anyone know if there's a soundtrack with the short piece playing when the computer says the ship's forward section 'does not exist" and Beverly realizes in horror that the universe itself is vanishing?
I think you mean The Traveler - Through The Bubble taken from Jay Chattaway / Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek The Next Generation Collection, Vol. 1 - Disc 2. I got my copy from a friendly Pirate.
Geordi was such an A hole sometimes in this show.. So were a lot of them.. The way he's yelling at Wesley is what causes him to hurry and fluster which causes Beverly to get trapped. Remember when Barclay saved the Enterprise from the Probe? Geordi was mad at him for that too cause Reg showed him up even though he just saved the ship.. Why was Geordi mad? Another time when Shelby beamed down to investigate early upon waking she took Data down to the surface. Riker acted like a Jerk to her, unwarranted.. Data said she Errored and Geordi was like, "Yeah, she Err'ed.." But really she didn't. She was under orders from a Task Fleet Admiral to get the job done immediately.. You know how many times these Starfleet people have been the biggest A holes but, he, it's a tv show.. There's a couple times when I would've punched Ryker right in the face.. The way he treated Reginald in his first episode I didn't like at all. They all made fun of him for his stutter which only hurt him so much that he retreated further into his holo psychosis. Wesley being a rude teen, well, he was a teen, you can chalk it up to that.. But so many times I've seen the director's turn the character's into mean people just to progress the story.
Between this and Picard, I always thought Beverly had what it took to actually be a Captain. Even though she is a doctor, she did in an alternate universe become Captain Picard of the USS Nightingale. It was inferred she did marry Jean Luc, and had divorced him for undisclosed reasons. But, and no spoilers here, but she shows how capable she has truly become in Star Trek Picard.
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This is my favorite episode. Because it contains one of my favorite lines of all time: "if there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe".
I just love the 'flaw in the ship's design' in that it is bigger than the universe!
I liked all the computer conversations in this one. Including when she asks whether she's able to fulfil the ship's mission alone, and why, and the computer is stumped.
"Cause?"
"A flaw in the ship's design" ["ship size exceeds size of the universe"] xD
That's a pretty serious design flaw. Smart computer. But speaking of design flaws ...
All the people in this shrinking bubble-universe kept vanishing, they'd cease to exist once their origins fell "outside" the universe's finite (and closing) boundary/domain. While the starship and the computer and other technologies on board continued to persist - even though these constructs were all made by people who no longer existed in places which no longer existed.
Crusher points out how absurd how empty the ship is.
@@pwnmeisterage "Plot device, Mister Frodo, plot device..."
Consider sending as Google document instead
@@pwnmeisterage People's origins being outside the shrinking universe wasn't the reason they were disappearing. It wouldn't make sense for Geordi to disappear before Picard, for example, since both were born on Earth. People were disappearing because Crusher's thoughts created the universe, and she was thinking about all the *people* that she knew that had passed away (thanks to a comment by Doctor Quaice). Therefore, *people* disappeared but the ship remained even as it made no logical sense in that universe. The only reason that the planets also disappeared is because the warp bubble was collapsing, which of course *did* in fact also cause the ship to disappear.
I've always had this episode as the best use of Vulcan logic EVER.
"what's the mission of this vessel? can I complete it myself? then why am I here all alone?"
_computer.exe has stopped working_
Beverly Crusher:not just a pretty face.
You know, it would have been awesome if there was a Vulcan crew member, or more interactions wth a logical being like Data, with Crusher trying to logic them into breaking their own beliefs..lol
Computer: Err..... Starfleet is downsizing??
I love how, when Beverly can't believe they are now a crew of two and Picard simply says "We never needed a crew before." Like it's natural only to have two people on a ship meant for 1114 people!
Especially considering how sizable the enterprise is. If you compare it to actual navy ships, you'd find the Enterprise would be more suited for many tens of thousands of crew, with the size it has.
But I suppose 2 will do just fine, especially if you have the computer, especially if your ship is most of the universe.
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That's what I never understood. Of course you make the ship bigger than the original; but why make it 600 meters long and then put only a thousand people on it? Never made any sense.
And by this time the universe had shrank so much they were likely the only people in the universe anyways. But what if it's happening to us? Like my car has 4 seats but I almost never use more than 1-2?!? Or what about the spare bedroom!?!? Who am I forgetting?? Was a very fun episode though.
1014*, not 1114
One of the funniest things Picard ever says.
1:57 You left out Captain Picard alone on the bridge standing up to look quizzically at Beverly
"We've never needed a crew before"
yohopirate lmao yes!! That was the best line. He just shrugs like it’s nothing when he says it XD
Yes! That is the reason I navigated to this video. That clip is essential.
Fun Fact:Gates McFadden did all her own stunts in this episode. Not long after filming, she realized she was pregnant, and was pregnant the whole time she filmed.
That baby got a good shakin'
I knew that traveler was up to no good. ;-)
That baby has a wild momma.
😂😂😂😂
That must have been an unpleasant realization. But good that everything went well.
I've always felt this episode to be a bit frightening. The nature of the universe... a spheroid region of 705 meters... and getting smaller every second.
Makes me think the universe was probably shrinking from almost the moment she was in the bubble. But it was only once it got fairly small that the ships sensors were able to detect it.
It's even more frightening to think about the nature of the REAL universe, not in Star Trek or any other tv show, no just for real. Does it go on for ever, is is there somewhere a barrier which we can't cross. The first options seems so unthinkable, something being infinite. The other makes that unthinkable idea go away, but raises the next question, if there is a barrier, an edge to real space, what's behind it?
Another universe. Multi-verse theory is that we are in one universe surrounded by trillions, maybe infinite other universes. The "barrier" would be a shift in dimensions. Likely something we wouldn't be able to perceive naturally. Very likely the universe is curved.
Snowwie88 Could it "be infinite" while also being such that only a finite amount is ever observable in any way?
@@Snowwie88 The universe is finite but very large. The problem with it's edge is that we can not reach it. The universe expands faster than the speed of light so since we can't even travel at some degree of lightspeed the continuing travel towards an edge would take an infinite amount of time and we won't have that long. Behind the edge is something we can't see, but it is having a huge amount of attraction to our universe since the speed of the expansion of the universe is increasing. So there has to be something that has enough gravitational power to pull our universe towards to.
The difference between the Traveller and Q.
Traveller: "Wesley, there is another way to find the warp bubble. Here, let me help you."
Q: (snaps fingers) "There, she's back, although I can't see what all the fuss is about. Now, if you don't mind, I've got a meddlesome tribe on Nebulon 4 to mess with."
there's your warp bubble wesley.
@@thewewguy8t88 Q can manipulate universal constant, so with a snap of finger, he can expand the bubble universe into normal universe. There, Beverly would never find out she was in another universe.
@@Civsuccess2 Would that mean, theoretically, that regions of space are larger and smaller due to those constants? And if so, how would you go from a much larger universe to say, the size or a warp bubble or smaller? Can this explain the possibility of someone ceasing to exist in the universe, due to the fact that limited constraints shifted someone out of it?
@@Civsuccess2That would be truly terrifying
If you examine the themes of early TNG, Wesley represented what the Q Continuum most feared, an evolved humanity that would rival them sooner than they were prepared for.
I love how after Wes uses super powers to rescue his mom, he does the "Picard maneuver" and straightens his uniform before going over to hug her.
1. The red uniform was definitely Wesley's best look.
2. Strangely ironic that all Beverly had to do was let go and let the vortex suck her in.
3. That bit with Picard disappearing was one of the spookiest bits on TNG.
For me it's the bit near the end the universe collapsing crunching the enterprise
@@TheWPhilosopher That's scary too... but it doesn't freak me out the way Picard vanishing did.
"Computer, what is the nature of the universe?"
"The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter."
"Great scott! We've explored it all! We can go home now!"
I love this episode. It touches so many interesting philosophical and psychological themes
Loved the "the ship has a design flaw... the front is missing" from the computer 😆
This is one of my favourite Star Trek episodes. Its so terrifying to imagine being trapped in a situation like that, with people ceasing to exist all around you and nobody else being able to perceive it.
ungratefulmetalpansy Ah. You'd be the future person yelling fire.
The original Twilight Zone had an episode that used a similar concept. The episode was "And when the sky was opened".
It would be a great prank to play on your kid. :p
I liked this episode very much. Mainly because I really didn't know what was going on at all. They had me going all the way through.
i love how the computer is in denial and continues to try to explain everything!
Just like ChatGPT
This episode scared the crap out of me when I was young but in a good way. People disappearing one at a time but only random people at the beginning, it’s like a mystery cause no one knows what you are talking about or why you seem to know these people. It really reminds me... and the name as well reminds me of those young adult novels we probably all read as kids, you know... Christopher Pike books. Where the whole world has gone mad and the only person that seems to notice is you. The story just kept getting better when it becomes so very obvious that you are clearly in the right and everyone else must be under some kind of mind control or drug to not notice. It’s utterly indulgent, this type of story structure, something from my childhood, it’s like that dusty town in the middle of America somewhere at 40 degrees and you and a couple of your friends discover something and the world you know and love changes. A perfect story in my opinion.
Beverly can carry any episode by herself. Some of the best ones are the ones she is the center of!
she littreally made sitting straight up corpses go away just by thinking to herself go away.
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That scene still spooks me thirty years later!
@John Rayne that one was trash. LOL
..let us not get carried away...she is attractive, but cannot fill in too long..
@@dhinton1 But she looked gorgeous.
Among other things this episode is also a great example of applying analytical thinking and logic in incomprehensible scenarios. It even mostly refrains from dipping into technobabble for the solution, and relies on Crusher managing to work it out by herself (in addition to it trying to push the Wesley prodigy idea)
One of THE BEST TNG episodes.
Excellent troll.
This was a good episode. God I miss The Next Generation. I am grateful I grew up when this was on.
The role of Data was originally down to Spiner and the dude who ended up playing The Traveller
So grateful they went with Spiner!
This is what they call a “bottle show” - an episode that uses existing sets to save money.
This show (and in particular this episode) is a masterpiece. Writing and crafting is everything. The fact it didn't consume the GDP of a little country to make it, makes it even better!
The idea of explosive decompression of those forward decks into some incomprehensible nothingness scared me as a kid. The screen says "HABITABLE SECTIONS VENTING TO VACUUM", but there's not even vacuum forward of those areas. What does that kind of nothingness even look like? Where does the air even go? What would happen to you if you were in there? Damn unsettling episode.
All good questions, that can now be the stuff of my nightmares. Thank You.
One of the most badassed episodes of the series.
"The nature of the universe... a spheroid region of 705 meters"
This is me when my car is in the garage.
Lol, such a sci-fi plot. The subspace bubble is collapsing!
I liked the premise, yes very SciFi but so is the show. But the way the drama of her situation was portrayed was very well done I think. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I like the way Picard said FUck Wesley when he collapsed and went to his mother LMAO
In his defense though, that's Will Wheaton. Most people just tell him to fuck off in real life.
3:05 - 3:15 nearly made me crap myself as a kid. At that time, I was only 6 years old, and I honestly thought that the Enterprise computer knew the real nature of our universe.
What is cool is it depicts realistically how the computer adapts to the ship "not existing".
Since the REALITY is collapsing on itself the computer doesn't even acknowledge the ship ever contained the forward section lol. Which would make sense.
The idea of the collapsing world of the ship, that this was it's universe shrinking with our intrepid Dr Crusher inside. And all Wesley fault again.
That WAS the nature of the universe.
At least, while it was still there.
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I'm socially inept, was that sarcasm or do you really think that Wesley was at fault?
@@GaySatanicClowns Yes he was definitely, he was always overreacting, without any thought of the consequences. One of the reasons why he wasn't as loved by the fans as other characters. But it was just the way he was written, blame the writers and show producer's for that. 😁😁👍👍
How did Wesley not get an upright pants at the end there?
Hardcore acting skills
I love how Geordi walks off screen, Wesley tries his excuse and he just sort of sliiiides back in to tell him off.
Wesley gets to do the other Picard maneuver: the sweater tug.
Ron Jones is awesome with the music in these episodes!
i love all of the dr crusher centered episodes. they were so interesting.
This episode is seriously underrated. One of the scariest things I’d ever seen on television.
4:43
"Jean Luc, my hero!"
Come on. You know we all wanted to hear her say it at least once in seven seasons.
That Bright Light Has to Be a Portal
Good thing it was a blue portal. Had it been orange, Dr. Beverly would have really been in trouble.
It seems that a single person could run the entire ship through voice command alone.
"HABITABLE SECTIONS VENTING TO VACUUM." Yeah, you might say that's a slight flaw in the ship's design.
He did the Picard shirt pull at the end…
You would think this episode would have Guinan.
The *one* figure on the Enterprise who could have helped with this.
Having read comparisons of this "TNG" episode to "Poltergeist: The Legacy" series... it's no coincidence Dominic Keating acted on that and "Enterprise". Too many to list from "Next Gen" to "Outer Limits"!
I love the Poltergeist-like moments in this episode.
Go into the light, Beverly!
One of my favorite episodes.
Did you hear what doctor just said when cuddling wesley?... Aww
This was such a great example of what an obnoxious, entitled, brat Wesley was. *Especially* given the fact that by this point he was allowed to wear a uniform and act as an ensign, it is ridiculous that he ignores direct orders from a superior officer (who happens to be the chief engineer) just because he isn't done with his pet project yet! That he nearly erased his mother from existence should have seen him locked in the brig with no gadgets to play with!
God, I hated Wesley!!!!!!
I think Wheaton himself hated Wesley!
thats why he asked to be written out, he done a denise thought he could do better but didn't
I liked Wesley, he's young and smart, he didn't think what he was doing would cause harm, he only thought that he would be helping everyone. Disobeying orders and the difference of a few seconds wasn't what caused this rift. His exploration of science caused this, but no one could have known. It was a mistake but it was brave, something all great scientists run into.
It boggles me that the Star Trek community hates him so much.
How exactly is Wesley an obnoxious, entitled, brat? His mother is the Chief Medical officer of a ship captained by the very man who served with her husband Jack, who was Wesley's father.
I would point out that Captain Picard admitted in the first episode that he was uncomfortable around children. We find out later in the series that it stemmed from problems that he had with his own childhood.
I would also point out that Commander Riker never had an easy relationship with his own father, so, he should have considered that given that Wesley's father died while under the command of Captain Picard.
Worf should also be particularly understanding about Wesley given the fact that he lost his parents at the hands of the Romulans, being raised by human parents, and having to deal with being treated badly by people who saw your people as the enemy for generations.
Nobody forced Captain Picard to make Wesley an acting Ensign and nobody forced the Captain to make it official. He did it on his own authority as Captain of the Enterprise.
I think that the problem that people like you, and others, have towards Wesley is stupid to begin with given that you are all hating on a character and not a real person.
Now, having said that, from my perspective, the reason why people take issue with Wesley is because, unlike the others, he did not learn things from going through Star Fleet but he learned in his own way because he is gifted.
very scary episode, the mother of all claustrophobic triggers.
A nice little mind fuck of an episode!
Love all your posts. Thank you.
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One of my top five TNG episodes ❤
So...how long do you ground your kid for zapping you into a subspace bubble and nearly wiping you from existence?
I don't think any parent will ever have to deal with that again! Definitely a first!
You can't punish for an accident.
Dmitry Granicin - Clearly you didn’t have MY parents.
@@qdllc the "your mom" joke potential here is way too high
Typically when you are zapped by a heavy dosage of ultra active particles you die from Radiation poisoning or are incinerated on the spot. Instead it zaps one person ignoring the whole area around that person into a warp bubble.
Wesley cocked up again, but he was sent to bed with no supper. 😁😁😁
One of my favourite episodes. Not sure why it took Beverly so long to work out it was her who had moved though. Makes you wonder if you exist and everything you see, feel and hear around you is in the mind. Alternatively are we each part of someone else's imagination, or does everything corporeal merely exist within our minds? Is there really a universe? Is it really big? Or is it only as big as we perceive?
Having an existential crisis is the most terrifying thing one can experience.
Matthew Donovan scared me to death, this episode...
Have you ever read The Neverending Story? The main character takes forever to work things out, he might as well have been the antagonist rather than the protagonist.
04:46 Bev. to traveler: Do I have you to thank for getting me back?
Me to Bev.: YES ! because Wes screwed up a bloody experiment (again) !
It's like Star Trek meets poltergeist and the langoliers
I forgot how much like the movie Poultergeist this episode is... at least as far as the graphics are concerned..
3:05 That's terrifying!
So this whole episode would be over if she stepped into the light right away.
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Such a epic show for it's time.
Why is an ensign piddling around with warp fields while the ship was inside a starbase?
Health and Safety would go fucking nuts!
Reminds me of that one scene in poltergeist.
For a while, when you asked Google Assistant what the nature of the universe was, it gave the same answer as the Enterprise computer here 😅
I had not remembered that Crusher disappeared first in this episode.. that makes a bit more sense now =)
I'm glad the new show did a reference to this episode, bringing wesley back, but he no longer goes by that name he now also calls himself the traveler...
Freaky episode. So he is something I always wondered. On the first attempt, if she had gone through and taken someone with her from the bubble universe, would they still exist?
bring a better question, was everyone in the bubble at one point, and all got sucked into the light like she did at the end? Thats why they kept disappearing? So was there only the person missing in the beginning on the real enterprise and rest got sucked through as they disappeared? think they would of mentioned that at the end of the episode..
I would expect so. She returned wearing her green overcoat which she wasn’t wearing in engineering when the warp bubble nabbed her.
@@jonathandrummond in exists in both the real end of bubble universe so therefore it would have remained and she's the only person that perceives all the changes for everyone else it just seems normal.
At the start of the episode when she first becomes trapped in the warp bubble Universe the universe is still pretty substantial in size seeing the ship leave the starbase headed for its next mission. It only shrinks down real small when she is trying to head to Tau Alpha C.
This is the law of attraction and manifestation😊
This is proof that people who dismiss the first two seasons of TNG as unpopular at the time are *wrong.* If that were the case, why bring back the Traveler in Season 4? It was a cool surprise for those of us watching this episode "live" on TV in 1990 because we enjoyed those early episodes and the show just got better and better as time went on. That's how it's _supposed_ to work, after all. A show should get better as it progresses and the writers/producers find their footing. But TNG was still accepted by the vast majority of Star Trek fans from the beginning even before reaching its "Golden Era" of Seasons 3-5.
All you have said is correct, I don't understand the dismissive attribute towards anything before 'BOBW' either. For the fans like me who were watching it as released back in the day, loved every episode. We hadn't had any Trek for 25 years, we were lapping up every minute that was broadcast. Thanks for your input.
For those who watched TNG back in the original airing era (not the rerun), wesley is 48 now. Let that sink in.....
Kind of funny that Wil Wheaton is now older than Patrick Stewart was when he took on the role of Captain Picard.
4:09 That moment when Wesley starts to go full god mod.
I love these spooky episodes of Star Trek.
probably my favourite episode
I hear Klingon pain sticks...
Although an interesting episode in some ways, it does rather feel like a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits script shoe-horned into TNG. There were times when the show became a sort of template to try wacky stuff from writers - these types of TNG episodes can be quite enjoyable, but they can also break the sense of consistent heightened reality that runs through most of them.
People hate this episode, but I always liked it.
This was a good episode
I don’t know why people dislike Wesley I mean like what’s wrong with him. He’s smart intelligent enough to be catch the eye of a Star fleet captain. I think it’s just pure jealousy that you all couldn’t be on that ship and make it to acting ensign.
Hey, look. Paul Stamets came to the rescue.
Love this episode
the episode was
STAR TREK : TNG's version of
POLTERGEIST
You can think Star Trek is stupid and for nerds, but dude ... This episode, regardless of what you think WAS / IS ABSOLUTELY DISTURBING Are you sure the universe is what you think it is?
YFLOInternational scariest episode ive ever seen....
its distrurbing to me for other reasons.
Paradoxically, the universe is exactly what you think it is. Even this episode plays on that premise. People and objects are vanishing for Mrs Crusher because her first thoughts upon entering the warp bubble were emotions of loss.
Super underrated episode
Oh! Why did you edit out Picard and Beverly hugging after they get Beverly back and only show her hugging Wesley? 4:49 Like how Wesley straightens his uniform before he hugs his mother.
Captain Picard was screw you Wesley I'm running to Beverly.
Anyone know if there's a soundtrack with the short piece playing when the computer says the ship's forward section 'does not exist" and Beverly realizes in horror that the universe itself is vanishing?
I think you mean The Traveler - Through The Bubble taken from Jay Chattaway / Dennis McCarthy - Star Trek The Next Generation Collection, Vol. 1 - Disc 2. I got my copy from a friendly Pirate.
DarMok Channel
Nice. now...to find it.
Geordi was such an A hole sometimes in this show.. So were a lot of them.. The way he's yelling at Wesley is what causes him to hurry and fluster which causes Beverly to get trapped. Remember when Barclay saved the Enterprise from the Probe? Geordi was mad at him for that too cause Reg showed him up even though he just saved the ship.. Why was Geordi mad? Another time when Shelby beamed down to investigate early upon waking she took Data down to the surface. Riker acted like a Jerk to her, unwarranted.. Data said she Errored and Geordi was like, "Yeah, she Err'ed.." But really she didn't. She was under orders from a Task Fleet Admiral to get the job done immediately..
You know how many times these Starfleet people have been the biggest A holes but, he, it's a tv show..
There's a couple times when I would've punched Ryker right in the face.. The way he treated Reginald in his first episode I didn't like at all. They all made fun of him for his stutter which only hurt him so much that he retreated further into his holo psychosis.
Wesley being a rude teen, well, he was a teen, you can chalk it up to that.. But so many times I've seen the director's turn the character's into mean people just to progress the story.
It would’ve been interesting to see what the Data in the warp bubble would’ve said if Crusher had suggested she was in the warp bubble much earlier.
I always liked this episode, as it is a very thought provoking idea. But, here's a question... Where did her coat come from?
This was a good episode.
4:15...I'll never forget the first time I watched this episode and I kept thinking RUN BITCH RUN!!!
Did Crusher have minutes or seconds to get out of the warp bubble before she was pancaked?
No Universe is larger than a Quark!
Thank You !!!
Between this and Picard, I always thought Beverly had what it took to actually be a Captain. Even though she is a doctor, she did in an alternate universe become Captain Picard of the USS Nightingale. It was inferred she did marry Jean Luc, and had divorced him for undisclosed reasons. But, and no spoilers here, but she shows how capable she has truly become in Star Trek Picard.
The force may be female, Thanos may have all the infinity stones, but only Wesley Crusher controls warp bubbles.
and Ron Jeremy is still a porn star...….
we've never needed a crew before
Trapping his mother in a bubble was a bad idea. Wesley was grounded for the next two weeks.
Now to mention booted from the show a couple episodes later
I've always wondered: if Beverly had consulted her bubble-universe version of Guinan, would she have known what was going on?
at the start of the video....creating a warp field in a starbase
04:55 insert "Fart" sound effect left channel.
Excelsior Entertainments I watched and I was thinking “what was he looking at?” And I think your explanation is perfect. :)