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  • Star Trek The Next Generation s04e02 Family
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  • @falconwind00
    @falconwind00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    A replicator? Don’t be absurd. Next you’ll want a smoke detector!

    • @Skzzlemister
      @Skzzlemister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yep! The fire that killed him and Rene in Generations. Does anyone know the backstory on that?

    • @AgentParsec
      @AgentParsec 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It took me a moment to get this. Sadly that probably IS what happened.

    • @EricDKaufman
      @EricDKaufman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dude.... Dude... that is fucked up. I love it.

    • @Unpluggedx89
      @Unpluggedx89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      30 years ago and it’s too soon 🤣

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Arguably a worthy riposte to Robert's nasty when-you-have-your-own-kids maneuver.

  • @kyle8952
    @kyle8952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    These are the most english french people i've ever seen.

    • @SeenAGreatLight
      @SeenAGreatLight หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My theory is that in Zefram Cochrane's era the French people were conquered by the British and intermixed. ...That or Patrick Stewart couldn't pull off a French accent. XD

  • @JD-xh4yf
    @JD-xh4yf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    04:00 "You raise your own sons as you would wish, and allow me to do the same with mine."
    Ouch, that's a burn from Robert if ever there was one.

    • @RandomAmerican3000
      @RandomAmerican3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ironic, considering how both Robert and his son ended up.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@RandomAmerican3000 Life is often very cruel.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RandomAmerican3000 Maybe it was even meant as a kind of hint at the situation of children being held back, entrapped by their parents. ... Like, bluntly speaking, less technophobia might have saved his life.

    • @Brandon-iy4li
      @Brandon-iy4li หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're both such great actors, I forgot how much I enjoyed this episode.

  • @Skzzlemister
    @Skzzlemister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I always wondered how Robert and Rene died in a fire, as portrayed in the Generations movie. If the incident was the direct result of Robert's abhorrence of technology, that would be quite ironic. For instance, if there was some sort of modern fire suppression system that he didn't want installed in the home that could have saved them all.

    • @captainr800
      @captainr800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Now that I think of they never explain or even address it. I’m not even sure why they decided to even added.

    • @DblOSmith
      @DblOSmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oh, man.... I didn't even think of that. Wow.

    • @tommygoose1732
      @tommygoose1732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I have never thought of that in that way. I just always felt it was a mistake to kill off Picard’s brother and nephew

    • @starbase218
      @starbase218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DblOSmith I think it's better to not think about it. It's completely irrelevant and really not what this story is about. Unless I'm the only one who sees the value of holding on to simpler things expressed in the way Picard finally comes to terms with him not having been good enough to stop what was happening.

    • @starbase218
      @starbase218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@tommygoose1732 I'd have to agree with that. But then Generations wasn't a great Star Trek movie overall either.

  • @fryfry377
    @fryfry377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "Do you still have it... your report?"
    "No, I don't think so."
    Borg: "WE HAVE THE REPORT. HIS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WILL SERVICE US."
    WE ALSO HAVE THE RIBBON.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      LMAO

    • @OlaBetiku
      @OlaBetiku 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "You don't know, Robert. You don't know... They took everything I was." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@OlaBetiku those ribbons were very precious to him. The Borg Queen had them on display on her ship.

    • @ReadmanJ
      @ReadmanJ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Shiirow That's Canon, now

    • @fryfry377
      @fryfry377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Shiirow no wonder Picard was so frickin' pissed in First Contact.

  • @Barbutt
    @Barbutt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    1:12
    …and once Picard returns to the ship for departure he beams up just enough bottles from the cellar to be noticed but not missed.

  • @Archie2c
    @Archie2c 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He played an total opposite to Jean Luc but I am older now and appreciate the difference of brother's and can see both views now alot easier

  • @DblOSmith
    @DblOSmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Remember when acting and dialogue and drama was good in Star Trek?

  • @Narrowgaugefilms
    @Narrowgaugefilms 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I think the Captain needs to spend some programming time on the Holodeck creating a better brother!

  • @ColumbiaB
    @ColumbiaB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I’d either not noticed, or forgotten, that David Birkin, the actor who appeared here, in 1990‘s “Family” (s.4 e.2), as René Picard, the Captain‘s nephew, was later featured in the 1992 episode, “Rascals” (s.6 e.7), as Jean-Luc Picard himself, with his body temporarily regressed to 12-year old form. It’s actually a little distracting now to see him in this role, having seen him in “Rascals”, too. To be sure, I’ll grant that there was a certain rationale in returning to Birkin in casting “Rascals”, as he’d already established the “look” of the young Picard-family male.

    • @RandomAmerican3000
      @RandomAmerican3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's not like Star Trek is a stranger to reusing actors. At least this in this instance, it made sense.

    • @ColumbiaB
      @ColumbiaB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RandomAmerican3000 - That was my point. In other cases where a guest actor appeared multiple times in ST, he or she almost always played the roles of unrelated characters. But in Birkin’s case, the characters he played were literally related: Jean-Luc Picard’s pre-adolescent nephew, René, and Jean-Luc himself at age 12. The logic of that (re-)casting choice was based in the rational expectation that an uncle and nephew would bear a resemblance to each other, of course. On the other hand, that casting carries the liability of distracting viewers, simply because they do recognize that one actor playing different members of the same family. Not a big deal, and I’m glad for Birkin that he got the work. It just jars the viewer out of the moment, a little.

    • @itchyisvegeta
      @itchyisvegeta 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn't he also play Rene in Generations?

    • @ColumbiaB
      @ColumbiaB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@itchyisvegeta - It does not appear so. The role of “Picard’s nephew” in Generations is credited to Chris J. Miller. Miller was born in 1983, and so when Generations, released in 1994, was filmed, he would have been 10 or 11 years old. Birkin was born in 1977; he would have been 16 or 17 by the time Generations was being filmed, and perhaps the director and producers wanted to portray Picard’s nephew, in the timeless Elysium of the Nexus, as still being of a pre-adolescent age.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ColumbiaB This 'clone family' thing is a proper TV trope in my view.

  • @aggressiveattitudeera887
    @aggressiveattitudeera887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Robert's jealously of Jean Luc was apparent.

    • @darthimperious1594
      @darthimperious1594 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I had very similar interactions with my sister growing up. She was very intelligent, and a hard worker. In any other household, she would have been the star. Unfortunately, her older brother got better grades, had to study less, and overall seemed to be "better". In the years since becoming adults, we've reconciled all of that, but it was hard growing up. I had no desire to make my sister feel bad at all. I simply wanted to do my best.

    • @troyjollimore4100
      @troyjollimore4100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It’s there, but it’s also intimated that he is deliberately pushing Jean-Luc’s buttons to force a breakdown, for his own good…

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Robert was jealous of Jean Lucs accomplishments, while Jean Luc was jealous of Roberts family life.

  • @AzguardMike
    @AzguardMike 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Picard's face after Robert says its the '47 is great. Just narrows his eyes and rubs his tongue on the bridge of his gums confused. Even tasting the lips like "really?"

  • @fharrisabangan7609
    @fharrisabangan7609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant actors

  • @dr.inkwell1070
    @dr.inkwell1070 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fascinating dialogue here about technology and how Picard is defending it even after it trapped him in the black cubes... Symbolically it's all just... Fascinating...
    "This is a very old argument."

  • @Dowlphin
    @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That hurt. Reminding him that he doesn't have wife and kids.

  • @markfrank3307
    @markfrank3307 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Do you raise your own child, as I raise mine?" Cold as hell

  • @CrniWuk
    @CrniWuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That wine was fermented long after my death!

    • @JD-xh4yf
      @JD-xh4yf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The vines grew in the soil you were buried in as well, no doubt. What are you getting at?

    • @CrniWuk
      @CrniWuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@JD-xh4yf That it is the wine of the future. Usually some say, the wine is older than me even! But in this case the wine will be fermented far in to the future.

  • @castieldiallo2945
    @castieldiallo2945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The son raising comment was a low blow.

    • @HereticDuo
      @HereticDuo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't worry, that BURN came back on him with a vengeance a few years later.

    • @sausage6984
      @sausage6984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert is punching life choice punches because of his jealousy

  • @arielklay23
    @arielklay23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great choice of episodes, like your choosing to show the scene of Stewart showing his acting chops when Picard mind melds with Sarek (incidentally I think it was as hard for Picard to lose his tight control in the meld as it was for Sarek and I think when Picard was weeping in Beverly's arms, he was expressing *his* pain as well as Sarek's). I hope you share the scene with Picard and Robert fighting in the vineyard and once again we see Picard break down over loss of control, but this time at the hands of the Borg.

    • @sghlol
      @sghlol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this is just a continuation of the last episode posted lol but yes it is quite good

    • @slinkerdeer
      @slinkerdeer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I *think* he posts them in a similar fashion as I do when watching Family Guy, you put the one up your currently watching

  • @BigT5
    @BigT5 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mine old people don't want microwave to till day. I always remember this episode.

  • @rahn45
    @rahn45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I feel life is only too convenient if one stops being grateful for those conveniences.
    ...
    So I suppose in a lot of ways, life is indeed too convenient for many people.

    • @davecrupel2817
      @davecrupel2817 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Far* too convenient.

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      its all cyclical. a hard life breeds hard men, hard men create a soft life, a soft life breeds soft men, and soft men create a hard life.

    • @M0butu
      @M0butu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Shiirow basically, yes.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Shiirow Flattening the curve is masterful. It is when one is more interesting in a peaceful life than an interesting one, when the heart is freed from the shackles of the mind.
      The enslavement can be hard to see when the mind is so entertained most of the time that it allows the heart to be open.
      How we handle the 'boredom of peace' is indicative of our maturity.

  • @hynesie11
    @hynesie11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wouldn’t Picard have aged a lot slower than everyone else zipping around at warp 9.

    • @troyjollimore4100
      @troyjollimore4100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It’s a convenient departure from Reality, but Warp travel takes ships through subspace, which somehow bypasses the Relativity aspect.

    • @hynesie11
      @hynesie11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      they are a clever bunch.

    • @mnaglich
      @mnaglich 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      warp drive moves the space around the ship. They don't go faster then light, the space around them does.

    • @troyjollimore4100
      @troyjollimore4100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mnaglich Always loved the premise of the TOS pilot… ‘Time Warp Factor’… It’s still a Subspace bubble.

    • @justindelima5607
      @justindelima5607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@troyjollimore4100 Since FTL velocities are supposed to be impossible, time dilation is more a concern of sub-light speeds anyway. FTL of any kind (whether 'real' or a process that is just 'effectively' FTL) would require a way around Relativistic limits to begin with.

  • @YD-uq5fi
    @YD-uq5fi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    With a Replicator, they could have replicated a fire extinguisher. Robert was a Luddite and died like one. But Rene deserved better.

  • @richtea615
    @richtea615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Robert was pretty based, to be honest. He sacrificed everything for family, while Jean-Luc sacrificed family for everything.

    • @The_Gallowglass
      @The_Gallowglass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's Robert's problem. If family matters then there was no sacrifice to begin with. If you believe you lost or gave everything up for your family how can you say you love them.

    • @nealmarasinghe7755
      @nealmarasinghe7755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's a personal decision, there's no right or wrong.

    • @dmclegg66
      @dmclegg66 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But in the end he sacrificed his family for his pride his delusion of what the world was,I know at times we all wish we could turn off the tech and go back to nature but we must face reality hiding won't solve anything living in the 24th and acting like its the 10th doesn't' work.

    • @Dr.Claw_M.A.D.
      @Dr.Claw_M.A.D. 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Choices. Always choices. Give up the old for the new, tradition may be lost.
      Pass up the new for the old? Penicillin was new. Electricity was new. Gas lamps were new.
      How long does something happen to exist to cease being new? How long before it becomes old.
      Pluto didn't agree with books.
      If people didn't have to remember everything and could just look it up in books thier brains would rot and memory shrivel.
      It is indeed an old argument.
      I find value and worth in past tradition.
      I find marvel and wonder in the new. I remember I was on my own some time before getting a microwave oven. I had survived without it just fine. Then once I had one I used it every day.
      When the last one gave up the ghost I chose not to replace it.
      I survive just fine without it

  • @TR47
    @TR47 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've read obervations about why Jean-Luc changed in the movies-it was because Robert and Rene perished in a fire near the beginning of Generations. He seemed to become more reckless and less concerned with following rules and upholding a stringent code of morality. When you become the last of your line, with fewer days ahead than behind, it can alter someone's mindset fundamentally. I believe this is the line of thought that went into him becoming disgraced in ST: Picard.

    • @edwarddeguzman3258
      @edwarddeguzman3258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      in a lot of ways Jean-Luc is like Robert and after the Mars incident, Starfleet and the Federation failed to live up to the standards Picard had fought and bled for, so he became disillusioned with them

    • @xtzyshuadog
      @xtzyshuadog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *If you check out the entertaining reviews of RedLetterMedia on the TNG movies like Generations and First Contact and Nemesis, you'll get a laugh out of how Picard appears insane there compared to in this show.*

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@xtzyshuadog So basically, we are complaining that Picard became too realistic, too frail, too human.

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no he became disgraced in ST Picard for "progressive" politics so 'powerful women' could swear and belittle him because how dare he be a straight white male.

  • @madcat789
    @madcat789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I can understand Jean's brother. What is his name? Robert?

    • @OneEyedKeys
      @OneEyedKeys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Robert is a man of the earth. Solid, a good father, husband, and as a vinter, knows more about sun, rain, and soil than anyone you can point a finger at. That's day to day wisdom at it's best.

    • @gammondog
      @gammondog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sibling rivalry mixed in with an unhealthy dose of envy.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gammondog Nah I mean about the tech thing.

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@madcat789 people mock Robert for his stance, calling him an anti-vaxxer and anti-mask but in the end, where does the convenience end? to point humanity no longer needs to do anything but exist? too much convenience lends itself to taking those conveniences for granted and becoming soft. like the ship in Wall-E, just a bunch of soft lazy fat asses being carted around while the ship AI does all the heavy lifting.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Shiirow People are calling him all that, just because he doesn't want to live by the Federation's Standards?

  • @tubenachos
    @tubenachos ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First I saw this I thought Robert was a prick but now I understand he was trying to see if Picard was human under the facade.

  • @johnrobinson4445
    @johnrobinson4445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's weird how these two old, grandpa looking guys have a son and nephew who is in elementary school. Why couldn't they have made him at least a young college student? More realistic.

    • @swashbucklemchrue2323
      @swashbucklemchrue2323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some people wait really late to have kids. Older men can have kids as long as they can still produce viable sperm and their wives haven’t gone through menopause yet. Jean-Luc, with his super busy career, probably wasn’t in any hurry to have kids.

    • @SirMangler
      @SirMangler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's worth mentioning the average life span for a human in TNG was 120. In modern day the cutoff point for having children is 40, in TNG the cutoff is most likely 60, so it isn't incredibly unrealistic to have a ~10 year old and look like that.

  • @TheFlyingHeart
    @TheFlyingHeart 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What started the fire?
    .
    Someone was cooking in the kitchen.
    A ribbon was placed to close to a burner.
    .
    Shame. If only they had a replicator.
    .
    Yes. Or an automated fire repression system. Like all modern houses do. They are very convenient.

    • @seanwebb605
      @seanwebb605 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's not true. Though they didn't light it they tried to fight it.

  • @patricedhanis-rouse3777
    @patricedhanis-rouse3777 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always had a problem with old Robert, having a young son. Then again james Doohan had a Child at 80

  • @artman2oo3
    @artman2oo3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Now this is kind of ridiculous. Robert’s “old fashioned”ness. We have people now who like things the “old fashioned” way... but usually that means they prefer things the way they were... like... forty.. fifty years ago. But bad-mouthing and not wanting replicators... that’s wanting to go back to technology a century or two back... from their perspective. Right? I mean, who today ever says “Nobody rides horse and buggy anymore! These infernal CARS!”

    • @tedf1471
      @tedf1471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nostalgia is not what it was...

    • @The_Gallowglass
      @The_Gallowglass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes they do. Have you ever met the Amish?

    • @RyuGabriev
      @RyuGabriev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I think, in this case, it was more focusing on the hidden costs of some innovations. No lie, the replicator is the one thing that finally got humanity's dark side to quiet down for more than a few minutes... but it renders many old reliable skills, like the culinary arts, almost obsolete in many homes.

    • @M0butu
      @M0butu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Amish? The Massai? The indigenous in the Amazon?
      I can imagine societies that may pick their technologies carefully in the future. We may not need them all. Take smartphones for example.

    • @515aleon
      @515aleon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well though, Riker did cooking (ableit he used a weird egg once), but you get the idea he might have done this a few times. However, it doesn't seem this skill is typical.

  • @user-xt4uf6ij6w
    @user-xt4uf6ij6w 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Id treat a Replicator like a microwave oven or Air Fryer a modern convenience

    • @seanwebb605
      @seanwebb605 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I want an air fryer. They sound awesome.

    • @user-xt4uf6ij6w
      @user-xt4uf6ij6w 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I want the whole starship and leave.

  • @falconwind00
    @falconwind00 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    “Life is too convenient.”
    Says the man who has his wife cook for him and probably isn’t busting his ass in the fields from dawn to dusk, rain or shine.

    • @Qs_Internet_Cafe
      @Qs_Internet_Cafe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Found the cuck !

    • @marcelojj2009
      @marcelojj2009 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You probably missed the part where he does the same. You probably missed how real farm live works, too.

  • @ezwa9979
    @ezwa9979 หลายเดือนก่อน

    175😐.

  • @aaronmehaffey6251
    @aaronmehaffey6251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous...with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid.
    Robert: Sounds like a plan!

  • @misterlau5246
    @misterlau5246 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't understand why Lucutus ' brother and nephew died in Generations. I don't think it added anything to the story

  • @dpring777
    @dpring777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They had to kill Rene and Robert to give Picard a reason to stay in the Nexus (he gets a family and a lineage in the Nexus... something he doesn't have in the real world now that his family are dead). Let's just call Rene and Robert victims of a mediocre script.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's sad too since he could've been a realistic addition to the Picard series as Jean-Luc's family successor instead of that incredibly lame and ridiculous story about a son.

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awful film. Bloody awful.

  • @trande6136
    @trande6136 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everyone making a strawman out of Robert is stupid. From a few perspectives, his apprehension is perfectly reasonable. When I think about replicator technology, I think it could become an enablement of vice, specifically gluttony. The dish is manifested instantly, and it could apparently be manifested ad nauseam - where’s the point in stopping?
    And what about when you’re stuck with a broken replicator? Are you gonna be happy eating a peanut butter sandwich? Would you even know how to cook what you originally wanted? Do you value survival skills?
    What if people simply don’t trust replicators - one can only imagine the impact a virus would have. Maybe they actually like cooking - being an artist, I’ve heard that one should learn to appreciate the process as well as the result.
    Maybe I give a pass to Federation’s unquestioning use of replicators because, being a pseudo-military power, their personnel would have the self-discipline & expertise to minimize their potential downsides - that and they have other things astronomically higher in priority.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Technology is kinda safe if we can handle it responsibly, if we are mature. Replicators create abundance and that removes existential fears, so there is no need for gluttony based on that psychology.
      But you are kinda right in that we only know our true merit when tested, so we'd have to see what would happen in the unlikely case of replicators not being available anymore.
      The Borg are like a portrayal of what technology leads to if not balanced with inner/spiritual evolution.
      Our world is arguably on that path. Technology is a conquest propagandized as unstoppable while humanity seems to be still stuck in some basic issues from millennia ago. And things clearly get more miserable, still.

  • @charlesweber4419
    @charlesweber4419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Some university or "school of the dramatic arts", should use episodes like this, as pure lessons in the craft..

    • @DblOSmith
      @DblOSmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nooooo, they'd use STD. lmao

  • @otiscarter1356
    @otiscarter1356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    3:40 “Hard enough to protect him”
    Boy Dies in a fire, on earth a few years later

    • @falconwind00
      @falconwind00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I assume Robert thought a smoke detector was a decadent modern convenience.

    • @walterdayrit675
      @walterdayrit675 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, tragic indeed.

    • @HereticDuo
      @HereticDuo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@walterdayrit675 not at all, stupid people that make stupid decisions that cause their own death serve a purpose.
      Its evolution, the weak and stupid die and don't reproduce, the strong and smart survive and reproduce, it makes the species stronger.
      To the evolutionary dead ends I say f'ck um.

    • @otiscarter1356
      @otiscarter1356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes…don’t want to corrupt the young man with tools of the devil like fire alarms and smoke detectors

  • @nuplanner5345
    @nuplanner5345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A most disagreeable character. No idea what Marie sees in him.

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His Big D

  • @cleanerben9636
    @cleanerben9636 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A lot of people seem to dislike Roberre's unappreciative stance on technology but in my opinion it may be more justified if say he lived like someone in the 20th/21st century. Our lives are generally, in most parts of the world, better than they've ever been for 10,000 years but by Picard's time you can quite literally magic food out of thin air. That's not just merely convenient but simply absurd. How many humans you think exist solely to play on the public holodecks and consume vast amounts of replicated food? This is one of the inevitable failures of Roddenberry and his silly ideals.

    • @falconwind00
      @falconwind00 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      But it’s not magic, it’s a post scarcity world where energy is cheap and plentiful enough that they can make matter directly from energy.
      And in Roddenberry’s idealistic original setting, humanity has evolved beyond a point where people would behave in a self destructive manner.
      You might think that’s unrealistic, and I tend to agree, but that’s the way he wrote it. So for these fictional humans in a fictional world, it’s not a big deal.

    • @argvminusone
      @argvminusone 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      On the contrary, scarcity is the big thing that's been holding humanity back all these millennia. Replicators are part of the reason these future humans can afford to go exploring the stars and solving everybody's problems. It's a lot easier to do that when “what's in it for me?” isn't even a question worth asking.

  • @Xerock
    @Xerock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I refuse to acknowledge the movie Generations as canon. Killing off the family off screen as they did as a cheap plot device was obscene

  • @jonathanakehurst4489
    @jonathanakehurst4489 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't the French say, Santé?

  • @paul1979uk2000
    @paul1979uk2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is there such a thing as too convenient? the way I see it, the more convenient life is, the more productive you can be in other area and are able to enjoy life more, it's a big part which allows us to progress by making things easier to do so we can work on other things we find interesting.
    Never understand those people that like living in the past or want things to be harder and just like Picard said, you don't have to lose that connection to the past by moving forward.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is all dependent on inner maturity, although might also blind us to our innate potential. Technology is a crutch that distracts from what we could accomplish without it. And the fact that it is commonly propagandized as an unstoppable conquest is an alarm signal that we are not in control, but addicted.

    • @paul1979uk2000
      @paul1979uk2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dowlphin True, but if we look at the human race and how we develop, we tend to develop tech to make life easier and more productive in one area so we humans can explore other areas, it's the real art of how we progress and become more advanced.
      Farming is a prime example of that, in the older days, a lot of used to work on farms, now it's a tiny percentage of the population, especially in modern countries, that frees us up to work on other things.
      I don't see any negatives to that, especially when the old ways still can be used for the ones that want to go that route.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paul1979uk2000 Frees us to run the corporate hamsterwheel. And by "us", one has to think industrialized nations, not their exploited serf countries, quasi-former imperial colonies.
      Agriculture allows more humans to exist, driving quantity over quality, and making it mathematically easiert to rule over them, based on the democratic principle that people who protest against their leaders often don't want to acknowledge - the grassroots corruption.
      With an extreme degree of technological progress there has been a shocking lack of human progress. In fact, it is particularly saddening how many people actually see the latter in the former.

    • @paul1979uk2000
      @paul1979uk2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dowlphin I agree with much of what you said but you have to remember that we are in the hamster wheel regardless of how much automation we have, the only difference is that we have more wealth to enjoy life.
      I also 100% agree with what you said at the end, with all the advancement we've done, it's shocking how little progress us humans have done in how we think and to some degree, we are still very tribal, hence what countries really are.
      That for me could be our downfall because I feel the more we advanced, the more destructive we become, that advancement filters down among the people and with how divided as a people we are, I can only see it becoming a disaster for us at some point and it's why I think at some point, we're going to need a lot more unity and global government if we are to survive and the sad thing is, we're not even close to that whiles technological advancement marches on and maybe it will take world war 3 for us to really wake up, something the US and China seem determine to start.

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paul1979uk2000 Well, world government is something nations foolishly attempted before resolving issues 'at home', ignoring the risk of concentration of power, or even being driven by that.
      And while the USA is quite war-addicted, I don't see China being interested in that at all, but the USA in their usual way spread lies about whoever they don't like. - I am only worried about whether China can resist the temptations of giving into the same power corruption once the USA lose relevance, because with their nemesis approach they might still be acting way more on the past pain inflicted than they want to realize. And in that context it is no surprise that they are very technology-focused and 'mental'. Right now the unitary party governance with its vast influence might succeed at repelling manipulative influences, but the resistance itself invites the danger, so there needs to be more 'ancient wisdom teachings' that strengthen the People's maturity so that the 'immune system' is there instead of working through 'state vaccination'.
      Latin America seems to have more heart, and that is exactly what is needed to move towards balance. Anything else is still working with the same problem energy.

  • @wompastompa3692
    @wompastompa3692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sorry, but Robert really reminds me of Colin Mochrie for some reason.

  • @justinm4497
    @justinm4497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Robert was right about alot of things.

  • @FoxyPercival714
    @FoxyPercival714 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hated the brother here...
    Always so cold. Doesn't understand the sacrifice Jean-Luc does.

  • @chrispbacon3042
    @chrispbacon3042 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is Roberto effing stuck in the 1800’s or what? Jeez.

    • @YD-uq5fi
      @YD-uq5fi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, he certainly died in an 1800s manner. I would have thought it is impossible to die in a house fire in a 2370 Earth of replicators and transporters.

    • @walterdayrit675
      @walterdayrit675 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@YD-uq5fi Probably didn't even have a 21st century fire extinguisher.