Star Trek: TNG Review - 3x26 The Best of Both Worlds Part 1 | Reverse Angle
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- The Borg are back in a nail-biting season finale.
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Piller, Michael. “The Best of Both Worlds.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry, Season 3, Episode 26, Paramount Television, CBS, 1990.
Shatner, William, director. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Paramount Pictures, 1989.
Spielberg, Steven, director. Hook. TriStar Pictures, 1991.
Lucas, George, director. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. 20th Century Fox, 1977.
Holst, Gustav. The Planets, Op. 32., I. Mars, the Bringer of War, 1914.
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Time has probably dulled a bit the impact of this episode given 30 years have passed (that it still continues to be analyzed and discussed is indicative of how important this episode is), but being a teen at the time I can remember how massive of a pop this episode got and the anticipation over the summer of 1990 for part 2. This episode, maybe even over any of the TOS era movies released up to that time was what really got Star Trek into the mainstream. From this point TNG, till the end of its run, was now pulling in 15-20 million viewers a week and talk of spin offs was really gaining steam and would be realized only a few short years later. Yeah, we are getting tonnes of new streaming shows for Trek today, but 1990-1996 I would say was still the absolute peak of Trek in terms of how broad-based its popularity was, beginning with this episode and culminating with Star Trek: First Contact. Yes, good trek continued to be produced in the late 90s and early 2000s, but from a sheer mainstream popularity viewpoint, the early to mid-90s I don't think has been topped.
Honestly I kind agree with you but I think part of it was how different the culture of 1990s were abs what was expected on television. I mean it was at the point where shows made for kids could handle topics that at the time most adult shows did not know what they were doing. And half the time felt like ironcly live action cartoons. Rarely did shows rise up and become shows that left an impact on viewers from the 1990s
We are getting Trek nowadays in name only... Picard and Discovery are really only Trek shows because of brand recognition, they don’t resemble golden age Trek (TNG, DS9) in any way. The writing is so bad compared to the older shows... No episode of Picard will ever be as good as Best Of Both Worlds... Or Tapestry, or The Inner Light, or Chain Of Command, or Yesterday’s Enterprise... Among dozens of other great episodes.
@@thewewguy8t88 Agreed. I was 10 years old when this episode aired. This was the first time any Trek episode (both Original and TNG) did a cliffhanger. Our pop culture was very different. In 1990, it was a big deal still for a home to have a VCR let alone a computer then. Second-run movie theaters and drive-ins were still alive and well. There's no Internet yet. Yes there's cable, but the traditional networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were arguably dominating still TV programming. There's far fewer cable networks and they were mostly airing re-runs of network programming and old movies. Not much different from local UHF channels back then. Even the FOX network was still very much in its infancy (still only 3 years old then) with no sports or news programming. This would change rapidly within the next decade to the media landscape we know.
Also in late 80s, broadcast tv stations were still going 'off the air' sometimes early in the am hours showing a bald eagle or a fighter plane flying through a canyon while the national anthem played. This then morphed into infomercials and syndicated news being played during the early am hours. My local PBS station showed TNG and 3 episodes of TOS on Saturday nights followed by The Prisoner. The PBS station was carried on cable systems 2 states over in Ny and NJ and had tons of Trek fans calling in to donate to the station. The local station claimed they were the only PBS station nationwide that was showing TNG commercial free and at the same time seasons 1 and 2 were still in commercial syndication.
@@JanoyCresvaZero SNW is promising!
6:42 Beverly is part of the away team because she's proven to be one of the most lethal crew members
You know this makes "that" scene in the finale of season 3 of Picard all the more hilarious in hindsight XD
@@benjaminbierley2074 I think that P3 also is about how Riker gets to watch all his foes topple. Ya know what I'm sayin - all the chicks die that he was once with or against. :D
You guys probably already know this. but Patrick Stewart's contract was up after this episode so they didn't know if he was going to come back or not That's why the episode really ends on a cliffhanger.
Now that's one heck of a cliffhanger.
When I first watched this episode in the 90's, I was glued to the tv, then after Riker said "Mr. Worf, Fire!" Then.....To be continued showed up. The scream heard 'round the world issued forth from my house and my mouth..."NOOOOOO!!!" Because at that time, you had to wait 6 months for the next season to air, and that was the LONGEST 6 months of my life!!!
I remember seeing that reveal as a kid. Such an iconic moment.
"They'll ignore us until they consider us a threat."
Since they're there to rescue Picard, of course they're a threat.
I remember watching this in Desert Storm in A satellite tent. That WAS the longest summer ever to wait for the next season. EVEN one of the Troops flipped out over the Borg, and having to deal with " those freaks".
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^^this 💯
How the heck you guys are not more popular? The editing, the jokes and overall quality are stellar!
That's what I thought too.
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I was only recommended this channel a couple of weeks ago so at least the youtube algorithm is working.
Basically you need to advertise, get numbers up (likes/dislikes/shares/saves/subs/everything), do collabs, and pretty much promote promote promote. Very few things organically grow on TH-cam anymore.
It's hard to describe just how badass that ending was when it first aired. Then you had to wait the whole summer!
They brought Beverly because they know that it’s likely Picard is already being assimilated and she’s got the most knowledge in dealing with Borg implants.
One of my favorite episodes.
I've always had trouble believing the Borg would allow Federation teams to beam over and freely walk around their ship. Borg vessels are like giant ant colonies right? Wouldn't the drones attack any intruders?
Remember that scene in Voyager when Janeway blows up a Borg ship by beaming a photon torpedo aboard lol.
Ant colonies won't react to your presence until you start poking holes in their nest with a stick. The Borg won't react to your away team unless you attack one of their drones or start messing around with their tech. If all you're doing is looking around without touching anything, though, the Borg have no reason to consider you a threat. 🖖😎👍
@@Willpower-74205 Understood, but I see lots of loopholes in this behavior - for example beaming over a photon torpedo (a trick Janeway pulled off in Voyager).
5:15
"Her passive aggressiveness is pretty goofy."
Not to mention a crash landing of insubordination.
Which makes Riker's insubordination of Jellico that much weirder.
great reference to "The Planets"! I think ALL sci-fi movie and tv music is kind of stolen from that work, obviously!
One of my problems with Riker is how he parked himself as the Enterprises' second in command and refuses to leave. Most will say that that is a prestige position; and being second in command of the Federation flagship is. And that is exactly why he is hurting the careers of up and coming commanders. That position is a stepping stone; a way of making ones self noticed for future promotions. And he most likely would not be offered the choice of taking a command position, Star Fleet would simple hand him his orders and he would have no choice in the matter. Or, if he did have the option of turning down a promotion, after a while, Star Fleet would just reassign him to another ship, opening up the position on the Enterprise making way for up and coming commanders ......
"I am Locutus of Borg" ....." and I am Riker of Sex"
I love that instead of playing the theme over and over and over and over in the background like some other channels do, you play the ambient noise from the bridge. That’s nice to hear!
Riker doesn't say "fire"....
It's "Mr Worf..... fire." 😁
I just discovered these TNG reviews and they are absolutely brilliant! Subscribed and I definitely look forward to watching the rest of the series.
The whole riker gets a command thing is stupid. If you refuse a ship, they are unlikely to make the offer again, let alone 3 times.
He was holding out for the Enterprise, which he would never get. Doh!
I also think Starfleet loses a lot more ships than is readily apparent most of the time. Always building new ships, always needing new crew
@@Cougar65429 Wasn't the Enterprise the only Constitution class ship to survive its 5 year mission intact?
In the Beta Canon novels, it was Janeway who tells Riker that the Titan was his last chance to take command of his own ship, take it or leave it.
4:06 video shows photon torpedoes and phasers coming out of the same forward port
I never understood why the Federation didn’t use the transporters more offensively. It would have been easy to just drop a bunch of nukes into the Borg ship. No need to lose thousands of lives slugging it out with phasers and torpedos.
This was my problems from the very first episode I ever saw, i couldn't understand why they never just used them as disintegrators, shoot an enemy ship to get the shields down and then just use the transporters on it's crew, you don't even have to beam them off, just beam them "up" and delete the pattern and there ya go an unmanned and mostly undamaged ship for free.
I kind of love/hate Star Trek, the writers have given the show god like technology but they seriously under use most of it for plot reasons as far as i can see.
Also in episodes of DS9 these huge ships fly and dodge in close range combat as if they were tiny agile single pilot fighters. The reality is that most weapons would be deployed from a great distance away out of visual sight.
To transport, you have to lower your own shields.
With the Mars bit playing in the background on the wrap up, you can hear a couple of extra themes: The big resolution in Star Wars whenever the characters make it out of a situation and are flying towards camera or off-planet; and then one of the main battle themes to _Gladiator._
Motifs from Holst's "The Planets" have been highly ripped off into soundtracks over the years....especially Mars and Jupiter. Listen to Jupiter and you'll hear Braveheart, Cast Away, and a couple others I can't remember right now. Hell, Hanz Zimmer actually got sued by the Holst Foundation for copyright infringement.
They had been beamed down to the outpost center they were told, but found themselves on the edge of a crater where the outpost had been.
If they had been transported to the outpost center, they would have either been at the craters bottom or dead (severely injured) at the craters bottom, had fallen the depth of it?
Why were they surprised (music), the Neutral Zone outposts had been "scooped" up in a similar manner? ;-)
That admiral was annoying and so was Shelby. It made no sense for Beverly to be with the away team on the cube. Great episode tho! It truly blew me away as a kid. For some reason, I was more upset about Riker potentially leaving than Picard being assimilated. I can't really recall my reasoning😄
Referencing Glenn Close's role in Hook? I see you're a man of culture as well.
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This is the episode where we get possibly the best line ever in Star Trek
Commander Data was available I took him we came 😂😂😂
This is easily the best episodes of NG, A and A+ for both.
This episode was such a big deal, I feel like it might have been the peak of TNG in a lot of ways. There were good episodes afterward but nothing quite hit the anticipation that the Best of Both Worlds did with it's cliffhanger.
If this is like the Army, then Shelby is very disrespectful and what about the chain of command?
Lol, B+? You son of a bitch! There's no pleasing you. I want to know what piece of sci-fi is a A+... anything? Very Nice video. On to season 4.
One of the unnecessary creepy elements is Admiral Hanson's hard on for Shelby. Maybe that explains why she advanced so far.
Love this episode
Node-able progress! XD
5:12 - “Passive-aggressiveness”? What? There was nothing at all passive about it, my friends.
I have a feeling Robert and Nick haven't experienced life in corporate America. Shelby is pretty accurate if you ask me
Pretty good not too bad.
Actually there is a really stubble callback to an episode where riker says so smugly ask yourself what would captain Picard do and guyin comes in and basically says that way of thinking is bullshit and stupid and you need to knock that shit off since your the captain now.
The Borg can’t be reasoned with talking would be futile
This was the kickoff of an extremely long six months in the life of a 10 year old.
Howdy. Nice videos.
You guys never seen The Next Generation before ?
Nick has. Robert has seen most, but not all.
You guys are crazy. Ally’s all the way.
A+ that is
I can't help but gibe this episode a A-. It's predictability is what holds this episode back. On point with the comment on Riker's character. That's what I really liked in this episode the most.
Hehehe Geordie Roll
Smash TV sound clip ?
Half of it.
No worries Robert, I would also give it a B or B-, it's not a bad episode at all, but I never understood why so many people have it in their TOP 5 etc... Maybe it's because I like Voyager Borgs way more than TNG Borgs, I don't know...
Voyager sucked hard.
Absolutely out of touch with reality take giving this episode a B+. Cannot believe someone can be this idiotic.
IMO, the episode spotlights how the nature of a woman, however theoretically "capable", is antithetical to the trust, teamwork and cooperation that is required for a vanguard group to succeed, achieve goals and accomplish objectives. Additionally the natural attitude of a woman is power hungry and represents a negative, aggressive and potentially destructive variable that must be constantly monitored and managed at the cost of all peace and progress.
Didn’t think I’d find Elliot Rodger in the comment section of a Star Trek Video. Sorry to hear that your mommy didn’t give you enough affection as a kid.
@@kaiserkonnigratzer1528 Quality writing from the Star Trek TNG era: emphasizing realistic social dynamics, conflicts and disagreements that would be typical to the structured environment depicted on the show. TNG always focused on the role of logic, patience and rationality (i.e. male psychological traits) in determining proper courses of action, as well as for maintaining ones principles in the face of adversity. Also, it's likely the show had a military liaison and/or technical advisor that helped the writers with details of real world "boots on the ground" issues that average people would be familiar with.