@@PanzerblitzRnRNo he means Picard, as in the famous quote in Season 2, Episode 21 - Peak Performance (TNG): “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life". Boy, that’s REALLY embarrassing, a Star Trek aficionado like Rich Evans would’ve known that I’m sure.
@@murtleisme You know this is all a bit, right? Mike and Rich don't know dick about Star Trek. Their Trekkie personas were created by Jay (who is not a fan, but has encyclopedic knowledge stemming from a decade-long forum feud about Babylon 5).
this kind of feels like visiting Grandpa and listening to his old stories that seem trivial and don't really make sense but you can tell they're really important to him
"so you start the watch when Salem comes onscreen, then stop it when he's off. Then you write the time down, and indicate whether it was that _crappy puppet,_ or an actual cat." "are _all_ these tapes Sabrina the Teenage Witch?" "Well obviously, son, it's the only show that STARRED Salem the Cat.
'So I decided to go to Terok Nor, which is what they called Deep Space Nine in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the shuttle cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of tribbles on 'em'
The random guy's hands and arms playing the flute in front of Patrick Stewart nearly made me choke on my coffee. Plinkett is right and I can't unsee it, ever, for the rest of my life.
I do remember first seeing that scene and something about it striking me as kind of odd. Now I realise the hands are WAY too big and hairy to be Patrick Stewarts's.
My daughter played the oboe in high school. She should have hired Patrick Stewart's flute stuntman for her finger movements, because it was obvious that she wasn't playing.
Patrick Stewart was clearly on the verge of losing it over the hands fingering the flute. I bet there are a half dozen outtakes of him dying with laughter and this edge case was the best take of the lot
RedletterMedia was a long-play by Mike, to make a StarTrek-fan TH-cam channel. He knew it would never work at first, without first building up a strong fanbase. After almost 15 long-years and endless Star was fodder, Mike's master plan has come to fruition. It was always StarTrekMedia.
It's not that they thought these mistakes/goofs would be hidden by the old TVs they were intended for, it's that they didn't think anyone would watch each episode 1000 times.
He mentioned in an interview that he needed some comedy to punch up his long diatribes, otherwise they would be annoying, which is why he used the Plinkett character for the star wars prequel videos (which was actually originally Rich's character).
I don't think it's the number of times rewatched. Once you have "insider knowledge" of something you start to notice things by default. Depending on your personality, that becomes part of the fun of participating.
Jay: "Mike, do you have to watch Star Trek on company hours? We have to find a way to cure Rich Evans of his crippling diabetes... and AIDS!" Mike (beer in hand): "SHUT UP! I'M DOING IMPORTANT RESEARCH!"
I can't believe Mr. Plinkett would do such a blunder and refer to the Holographic Environment Simulator (22:23) as an entertainment simulator, twice (22:39). I bet Mike wouldn't have done that himself as the senior Star Trek expert.
Gosh, Plinkett is able to so beautifully and elegantly shatter the illusion of storytelling in my favorite show and destroy the sense of wonder I feel. He's incredible.
I've watched TNG through a million times at this point and never noticed any of this crap. After watching this video, in the very next episode I watched I spotted camera lights in reflection, and a power cord coming out from under a console and then going under a carpet. Hope I'll forgot and stop noticing soon...
As someone who works full time in film as a gaffer and lighting technician, I'm honestly surprised that there aren't more mistakes like this. Hiding the production equipment, camera marks, and boom mics is a very big part of our job and its a credit to the professionalism of the crew that they did such a great job of that. Just yesterday I was gaffing a music video and using black paper tape to hide a light and some reflections. The dolly grip jokingly remarked, "you could make a whole film with just black paper tape man," and he's right. While there are some obvious cover ups on the bridge for reflections, there are probably a thousand other occurrences of black paper tape or matte card stock in shot that you can't see, even in HD. I had the chance to work for Marvin Rush (no relation as we found out after discussing our heritage) for a few weeks a few years ago. He who was the cinematographer for TNG, Voy, DS9, and Ent, and it was really hard not to be a total nerd around him and relate every shot he asked me to light to some Star Trek scene that he had done. 😂
You can tell as well that they got a lot better at hiding things in later seasons. They really should have thought more about the back screens when building the bridge set though. Even mild angling of the panels would reduced the lighting glare substantially. The actors marks would also have been such an easy fix when transferring to Blu-Ray. Im not going to be able to unsee them now haha.
This is so petty and so wonderful for its pettiness. It's pettiness raised to an artform. This video is an ode to the madness of extreme fandom and I love it. How much time did it take Mike to find and edit all of these examples? Insanity.
A lot of the petttiness is softened by the perspective, since his frustration a lot of the time seems to be sympathizing with the struggles of the people making the show, rather than annoyed at the crew, for example all his wishing to get rid of that one particularly troublesome strip of shiny plexiglass with the ship on it. His nitpicks sound a lot like how you imagine the crew might've complained about some of that stuff being more trouble than it was worth.
This is like the opposite of a 'you can't unsee it' type video. Every mistake Mr. Plinkett pointed out I immediately forgot after navigating away from the video.
We all thought Mike was simply getting senile, but no, it's that his brain is just so filled with _Star Trek_ mistakes there's room for nothing else anymore.
Man, RLM’s other stuff has way surpassed Plinkett. When HITB dropped 10+ years ago, people just wanted more Plinkett reviews. It was smart to push through the risk of branching out and failing. They could’ve just fallen into the trap of hitting the Plinkett whopper button to diminishing returns, becoming another “damn, they’re still around?” channel after their moment passed. Today through consistency and force of personality, they have the freedom to do anything they want without losing their audience. Star Trek trivia, an embarrassing movie about a space cop, Jenga with Macaulay Culkin… it’s incredible really. Love you guys, RLM forever.
I remember one of the Plinkett videos even includes a comment that says something along the lines of "Where's the next Plinkett video nobody gives a shit about Half in the Bag you fat loser". Here we are 10+ years later and the staying power of Half in the Bag is incredible. I will never forget the drunk Halloween episode. "Good night sweet cats" indeed.
I was hesitant to watch this as I'm firmly in the camp of "I can't unsee it once it's pointed out." But this is a level of detail far beyond my world. I can continue rewatching TNG infinitely and never be bothered by the random tape and extension cords. Never leave us again, Mr. Plinkett!
Red Letter Media is transitioning into Red Alert: a Star Trek Nostalgia Channel. I support this… for Mike’s mental health in his advancing golden years.
I don't think coffee stains count as mistakes. Ensign Clumsy wasn't the only coffee-spiller in Starfleet, and all those stains have to wait for Chief O'Brien, the only enlisted man in Starfleet, to come around and clean them up.
OMG, I literally re-watched the Picard Season 3 reviews yesterday where Mike says, "One day I'll finish my Star Trek TNG mistakes video". Its like Frontier-Day came early!
@@stephenthomas1492 Go to their channel page and open the playlist called “Plinkett’s other Reviews” or “Other Plinkett Reviews” or wtv it’s called. Those old ones are some of my favorites. All the TNG movie reviews are what started it all and are some of the funniest ones. They still make me actually lol on rewatches.
@@stephenthomas1492I am genuinely happy for you 😊 👏 That’s like when you’re craving ice cream or pie or something a you find some in the freezer that you totally forgot about. It’s like Past You did Present You a solid 😊 ✊🏻
I've been in a dark place, it has been so long since I've heard Mr. Plinkett. And now tonight, I can safely say I'm in an even darker place. Thanks RLM!
Patrick getting sleepy during the Vulcan talking always makes me laugh, I just imagine Picard thinking, "Gosh can we just wrap these negotitations up..."
I wonder if it was him just getting a silly idea then looking for mistakes or if he and Rich sat down with some beers to pick out mistakes for fun and that just turned into a video.
Underneath this video it gave me an ad for some quiz to help with overcoming procrastination tendencies. I'm not procrastinating, TH-cam! I'm getting the most important things done first today: watching a video about minor filming mistakes in a science fiction television program from the 90's. I'll waste time at the gym and cleaning the house only after this grueling work is done, thank you
In a weird way, I actually love the fact that these "blemishes" exist. It adds character to the show and makes it obvious that it was actually filmed, and not just animated to perfection. It's perfectly imperfect so to speak.
Star Trek has kind of an earnestness to it that I think was actually improved by the high episode numbers. The occasional cheesy episodes or overly abrupt third-act resolutions are part of the charm. Sometimes it's just fun to hang out with Quark, Rom and the Nagus for an hour even if you've heard the jokes before.
I asked Brent Spiner at a convention once years ago if it's true he hated cats. He quipped no, he just hated THAT cat and got a good laugh. Then I saw him us the bit later on stage at some show! 😂
Mike is the... voice... of Mr Plinkett??? (You must be new here, breaking unwritten rules of not calling things like that out. As Chancellor Gowron would say: for this we will forgive... (pause then do creepy eye stare)... but not forget").
@@ozbullymorales1020 What you said reminded me of a line from a film -- and then I remembered it was from Ben Hur (1959). I looked it up to the get the exact quote. This was said by Simonides: "There is Malluch, my other half. We met in the dungeons of the citadel. We were released on the same day. Malluch without a tongue, and I without life in my legs. Since then, I have been his tongue... and he has been my legs. Together, we make a considerable man."
@@riccyhandy2503 Honestly, for years I was never sure if it was Mike or Rich. Well, Rich does portray the physical embodiment so my confusion is warranted. And I don't think I've ever heard Mike do the Plinkett voice on HITB (except for the intro!).
I love thinking that all the loose carpets, wires, burnt out lights and garbage is actually canon. The Enterprise D really being this 80s beige cruise ship of the stars!
The ceiling of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) was equipped with advanced autonomous recording drones and camera devices to document the ongoing mission of Captain Picard and his crew.
Sooo Mike just watches one TNG episode every night, about 8 times, on a 150 inch screen, hunting for mistakes…“this time I concentrate on the black panels“ he shouts enthusiastically at 3:15am. Am I kind of close ?! 😂
I Love that we're such geeks for this show that we notice this stuff, but also that they pretty much pulled all of it off working with what they had. It took hd remakes and a kajillion watches to find this stuff. Hats of to them for cranking these episodes out and making magic for us all.
I laughed so hard at "this ship is falling apart!" being played over and over! As someone who memorized Datas code I also noticed the numbers on the screen being wrong 😂
Stuff like coffee stains, messed up carpets, dents, broken lights, and loose cables or wires taped to things, honestly seems perfectly understandable for a military vessel on a long deployment. Stuff's gonna break, people are gonna spill food and drink, I'm honestly surprised the Enterprise looks as clean as it does 😅
That would make sense, but I remember Picard saying once that the Enterprise is so advanced it basically cleans itself. Besides, the ship usually gets repaired & refurbished in dry dock after a demanding mission.
The "boom mic" is actually the reflection of a _cantangent frombustulator._ True Star Trek fans are already aware of what these do so I won't bore people with that.
I also would have thought there would have been more dribble stains on the ground around Wesley from when he was near that young woman (she turned out to be a weird transforming entity that he wanted to bone... so I guess that confirms he is somewhat related to Captain Kirk).
Loved the boom mic section, it's like the bridge was haunted by the spirit of a vengeful boom mic, always just barely not out of frame or caught in a reflection.
Some men write poetry to express the divine emotion of Love. Some men paint. Some men make everlasting works of architecture or music. But Mike, Mike has made the most shining edifice of all.
In the spirit of trivial nitpicking: that's not a cane at 2:44, that's the bow of a stringed instrument (the scene is set at a string quartet performance).
Nihilist asmr. It sends me to the deep abyss of sleep, devoid of hope or dreams, hoping to wake to the ongoing grown of a man’s obsession with a general vibe. Art at the end of the world. Humanity’s glory in the mundane. 9/10, will actually watch again by accident due to autoplay and a lazy algorithm
This video has actually been really useful. I have to record a video for work this week and now I know about marks it's going to help me to be much more accurate in the way I go about things. Thanks, Mr. Plinkett!
5:35 "Hey, Steve, What are you doing in that weird position with your head between Patrick Stewart's legs" - "I am playing the flute! What did you think?!"
Great video. Really enjoyed this one. I agree with you and others. The Picard flute hands are something I'll never be able to unsee. They're so clearly moving independtly of his body.
In the old TNG Technical Manual it says the famous tall, narrow font they used for everything was intentionally hard to read, I think so it would blend into the background. It's fascinating that they'd intentionally work against their own design principles years later by making all the signage so readable.
Thank you Mr Plinkett - you have shown the world (or perhaps reminded them) how to be hyper-critical but still be respectful. Your love and admiration for STTNG is obvious, and it was good fun running through these errors while at the same time being able to admire what everyone still achieved on the show. Well done for hitting that perfect tone, so rare these days in an age where people assume you need to be extreme to be noticed. Great editing too Mike!
This was actually Mike's ploy to become an expert at TNG to destroy Rich's confidence in the next episode of ST Trivia by watching every second of the show over and over again.
Mike's really compensating for that HORRIBLY embarrassing Star Trek: The Next Generation Trivia Showdown. LOSING (by roughly 100 points) to Rich Evans has got to be the second worst way to end a promising career in the field of Star Trek trivia!
Right? They weren't aware they were making a timeless and beloved show It was just work for them, and perhaps a bit of fun but all these little mistakes don't bother me, it actually shows a glimpse into the behind the scenes and makes me feel more connected to the reality outside the episodes
My favorite is when you’re in the middle of a take, and the boom operator uses the time to eyeball the monitor while they lower and raise the boom mic to see if it’s in the shot.
The most amazing part about all of these hundreds of millions of mistakes is that I never noticed ANY of them over my hundreds of thousands of rewatches, even in 16k HD
As a musician, it's sort of a curse that whenever someone supposedly plays an instrument on television or in a movie, I can tell whether or not they're actually playing.
My ex was a courtroom reporter and that was her curse watching anything with a trial scene. Not only were the fingers always wrong, the motions themselves were not even close.
@clintonwilcox4690 Try watching the episode in season 1 where Riker has a holodeck girlfriend in a jazz club, and it'll drive you nuts. The drummer's brushes don't touch the snare drum or the cymbal, the pianist does not depress the keys, and in a close-up of the bassist's hand, the strings do not vibrate after supposedly being plucked.
Jack Crusher II: Mm. Turns out I’m not crazy. No, I’m just broken. Now the way I see it, I can either wallow in self-pity, or I can be like those Japanese tea cups which get put back together with melted gold. Or in my case, bourbon.
I think my favorite part of all of this is that I’ve never noticed ANY of this before. It really is a great show in that it keeps you engage enough to not worry about the unimportant stuff that they didn’t have the time or money to fix.
Just noticed another nitpick I hadn't seen before: At @23:50, when the turbolift opens, the carpet in the turbolift clearly extends past the turbolift floor itself, and is almost continuous with the carpet of the deck floor, almost as if the turbolift is part of the same flooring as the deck, like it's one big "set" or something.
I’d love to see RLM explain how the script writing process worked then versus now: script submissions, sometimes from major sci-fi writers, with only the best ones used; versus today’s “writers rooms” of a few people trying to construct every episode themselves.
Steve Martin sums it up in Only Murders: "...and it's a real show, with writers and everything! Not just an executive producer screaming lines into a tape recorder while high on cocaine!"
You should see also how scripts get paired down, chopped up, and rearranged in editing. Original scripts might have about 2 hours worth of filmmable content. Then they omit scenes, combine others, remove characters, and truncate/simplify dialogue to get it down to 1 hour, film it, and then edit it down further to fit for television. As a result some episodes come out weak, somewhat hamfisted, with important missing scenes/characters/dialogue, often with a rushed/deus ex ending, and disowned by the writers as completely divorced from their original idea/concept/plot.
Rich Evans is such a prolific artist he can both play Mr Plinkett liveaction and make an imitation of Mike imitating Plinkett. Such a great range as an actor and voice actor.
11:24 Orville evoided the glare problem by not having reflective material on the backdrop of the bridge, and keep shots at an angle from the side panels. Obviously in TNG, instead of making needed changes, they committed to the bit to the bitter end.
It's sad people don't realize this isn't a Mr Plinkett video, this is just Mike talking normally now.
Without the spastic colon serial killer footage spliced in, what’s the difference?
His transformation is nearly complete
He was never the same, not since Rich performed that fatality on him.
what 30 years of hard drinking will do to a mofo
I like to think that Mr Plinkett has been Mike's future self hauting him from the future.
Somehow Mr. Plinkett returned
🤣
Goddamn this is a good ass comment
Secrets only the cat knew.
He flies now?
When we needed him most...
Mr. Plinkett found his insulin pump
Wow Mike, the lady spilt hot chocolate on Picard, not coffee. I can see why Rich is the reigning trivia champion
And for extra points it’s the women with three boobs from Total Recall.
she's the mutant lady with three tiddies from Total Recall
Fun fact: that young lady was the three-breasted woman from Total Recall (the good one from the 90s).
@@addison8078did the Total Recall remake even had its three-tittied chick in it so that it needed to be specified which one you're talking about..?
@@addison8078 "Mr. Crusher! Get our asses to Mars!" - Riker, probably
i can't believe i never noticed all those giant white arrows before
Picard taught us it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, but this show taught us you can commit many, many mistakes and still win.
I believe tng was more popular than the original.
@@PanzerblitzRnRNo he means Picard, as in the famous quote in Season 2, Episode 21 - Peak Performance (TNG):
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life".
Boy, that’s REALLY embarrassing, a Star Trek aficionado like Rich Evans would’ve known that I’m sure.
@@murtleisme You know this is all a bit, right? Mike and Rich don't know dick about Star Trek. Their Trekkie personas were created by Jay (who is not a fan, but has encyclopedic knowledge stemming from a decade-long forum feud about Babylon 5).
@@murtleisme Shit, you're right. I've been fired.
I needed this :)
TNG: "hide the lights with black paper!"
Abrams: "ADD MORE LIGHTS!"
LENS FLARE LENSE FLAIR LENS FLARE
@@pogglywoggly3292 I see 5 Lens Flares. Now please release me from the torture of this video.
Raphael: what do ya think? We need more lights?
@@shawnvines2514 THERE. ARE. FOUR. LENS FLARES.
Abrams: Tap the camera. Tap the camera! TAP THE CAMERA!
this kind of feels like visiting Grandpa and listening to his old stories that seem trivial and don't really make sense but you can tell they're really important to him
my grandpa used to tell stories about that dumb war against some knots or something too, i just tuned him out in favor of my gameboy.
"so you start the watch when Salem comes onscreen, then stop it when he's off. Then you write the time down, and indicate whether it was that _crappy puppet,_ or an actual cat."
"are _all_ these tapes Sabrina the Teenage Witch?"
"Well obviously, son, it's the only show that STARRED Salem the Cat.
'So I decided to go to Terok Nor, which is what they called Deep Space Nine in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the shuttle cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of tribbles on 'em'
You are just calling him senile in the gentlest possible way aren't you?
It's all fun and games until you realize you were also watching and loving the same show he was when he was a kid.
The random guy's hands and arms playing the flute in front of Patrick Stewart nearly made me choke on my coffee. Plinkett is right and I can't unsee it, ever, for the rest of my life.
he's all "i can't confirm this" but the way his mouth pivots the flute when someone else is playing it is SO obvious I'm dying
I do remember first seeing that scene and something about it striking me as kind of odd. Now I realise the hands are WAY too big and hairy to be Patrick Stewarts's.
My daughter played the oboe in high school. She should have hired Patrick Stewart's flute stuntman for her finger movements, because it was obvious that she wasn't playing.
Almost as creepy as Michael Fassbender homoerotically teaching himself to play in promotheus.
Patrick Stewart was clearly on the verge of losing it over the hands fingering the flute. I bet there are a half dozen outtakes of him dying with laughter and this edge case was the best take of the lot
RedletterMedia was a long-play by Mike, to make a StarTrek-fan TH-cam channel. He knew it would never work at first, without first building up a strong fanbase. After almost 15 long-years and endless Star was fodder, Mike's master plan has come to fruition.
It was always StarTrekMedia.
Soon they will transition to doing 100% TNG trivia shows. And the world will rejoice.
Right on. Before it was Star Was. Now is Star Next.
Those dreams were crushed by Shatner. Don't put salt in the wound.
@@instcakehow about a little dirt in the eye?
RedShirtMedia
It's not that they thought these mistakes/goofs would be hidden by the old TVs they were intended for, it's that they didn't think anyone would watch each episode 1000 times.
Well, it is Star Trek.
LMAOOOOOO
I'm glad they made a show where anyone actually cared 25 years later. No one is critiquing the marks and light reflections on 8 is enough, or Columbo.
I've watched each episode at least 1000 times and somehow have NEVER noticed any of these, I suck as a nit picky Trekkie.
The Boom Mic appears more than cast members. It should of been given a script
It's kinda cute to see Mike trying to act like Mr. Plinkett to shift blame for this unbelievable amount of embarrassing useless knowledge.
Mr. Plinkett is Mike's id made manifest.
If you're good at something, never do it for free
How embarrassing
@@davidasylum1870 If you're nothing without your eyebrows, don't ever do it for free
He mentioned in an interview that he needed some comedy to punch up his long diatribes, otherwise they would be annoying, which is why he used the Plinkett character for the star wars prequel videos (which was actually originally Rich's character).
Mr. Plinkett is so good at finding boom mic shadows from watching ghost adventures with Mike and finding orbs
♫ Yes, I'm being followed by a boom shadow, boom shadow, boom shadow. ♫
The trick is to turn the brightness up while watching. Then they just jump out at you.
I love how Mike has rewatched tng so many times he just sees power cords and carpet squares now
I don't think it's the number of times rewatched. Once you have "insider knowledge" of something you start to notice things by default. Depending on your personality, that becomes part of the fun of participating.
And black construction paper.
@@MKDumas1981 Someone left a console behind this piece of black construction paper!
@@Kandralla Yes, but i guesss mike watches TNG whenever he comes home drunk, so pretty much every day and sometimes twice a day...
I rewatch TNG now and all I see are breasts. Can we get a TNG nip slip episode?
Making rewatching TNG at high definition a business expense is one of my favorite things about RLM.
Jay: "Mike, do you have to watch Star Trek on company hours? We have to find a way to cure Rich Evans of his crippling diabetes... and AIDS!"
Mike (beer in hand): "SHUT UP! I'M DOING IMPORTANT RESEARCH!"
I can see how you can confuse Chris Evans with his more handsome twin brother Rich Evans@@creopictures
@@stevengodoy6896 Woopsie. Thanks for the correction. Made a shameful edit.
🤯
@@creopictures you should've left it.
Fail.
Riker: "Increase to warp 6"
LeForge: "Aye sir, full impulse"
Mr. Plinkett: "What?!?!"🤣🤣
Ikr I was DYING 🤣
What a weird flub. Did LeVar Burton get the wrong script? I would expect this level of incompetence in Discovery but not TNG.
@@Tar-Heel-Dweller To be fair it's early TNG and everyone knows early TNG was not well received.
Mike’s “WHAAT??” always gets me 😆
I think the best in universe explanation is that there was a reason to go to impulse before warp?
But that would be really bad CRM.
Mike's magnum opus. It took him 12 years to make; he grew up on screen, right before our eyes.
Mike's magnum opus will be his collaboration with Tarantino on how Jay rescued Johnny from white slavers.
How long did it take to make, though?
Needs more girls get it done
Out of those 12 years, I cherish the first 2 the most... before his dementia kicked in...
Boyhood.
I can't believe Mr. Plinkett would do such a blunder and refer to the Holographic Environment Simulator (22:23) as an entertainment simulator, twice (22:39). I bet Mike wouldn't have done that himself as the senior Star Trek expert.
Boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder
Rich needs to film a mistake video for this mistake video.
MISTAKECEPTION: A video coming up by RLM fans that showcase the mistakes by RLM covering mistakes!
I think it's finally time for Mr. Plinkett to go live on a farm...
These hack frauds.
Gosh, Plinkett is able to so beautifully and elegantly shatter the illusion of storytelling in my favorite show and destroy the sense of wonder I feel. He's incredible.
"Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement."
I've watched TNG through a million times at this point and never noticed any of this crap. After watching this video, in the very next episode I watched I spotted camera lights in reflection, and a power cord coming out from under a console and then going under a carpet. Hope I'll forgot and stop noticing soon...
oh its you
@@ShortFatOtaku Who am I?
The Picard flute hands thing is something I never noticed before but once you're looking for it it's stunningly obvious. Wild.
I've actually heard this made note of in the past. They just aren't at the right position to be Picard's hands.
I cant unsee it
He’s even kind of smiling in that shot, like he knows another person is there but has to keep it together
You're mostly looking at peoples faces so I would never have noticed any of this. I did notice a red shirt die and the actor was obviously breathing.
It always felt creepy and cringey AF
As someone who works full time in film as a gaffer and lighting technician, I'm honestly surprised that there aren't more mistakes like this. Hiding the production equipment, camera marks, and boom mics is a very big part of our job and its a credit to the professionalism of the crew that they did such a great job of that.
Just yesterday I was gaffing a music video and using black paper tape to hide a light and some reflections. The dolly grip jokingly remarked, "you could make a whole film with just black paper tape man," and he's right. While there are some obvious cover ups on the bridge for reflections, there are probably a thousand other occurrences of black paper tape or matte card stock in shot that you can't see, even in HD.
I had the chance to work for Marvin Rush (no relation as we found out after discussing our heritage) for a few weeks a few years ago. He who was the cinematographer for TNG, Voy, DS9, and Ent, and it was really hard not to be a total nerd around him and relate every shot he asked me to light to some Star Trek scene that he had done. 😂
Did you ever have a chance to work with .......RUSH? 😁
How did you get into that line of work?
You can tell as well that they got a lot better at hiding things in later seasons.
They really should have thought more about the back screens when building the bridge set though. Even mild angling of the panels would reduced the lighting glare substantially.
The actors marks would also have been such an easy fix when transferring to Blu-Ray. Im not going to be able to unsee them now haha.
Every little piece of paper is another piece of love.
TIL gaffa tape's name comes from gaffer. Thanks!
This is so petty and so wonderful for its pettiness. It's pettiness raised to an artform. This video is an ode to the madness of extreme fandom and I love it. How much time did it take Mike to find and edit all of these examples? Insanity.
A lot of the petttiness is softened by the perspective, since his frustration a lot of the time seems to be sympathizing with the struggles of the people making the show, rather than annoyed at the crew, for example all his wishing to get rid of that one particularly troublesome strip of shiny plexiglass with the ship on it. His nitpicks sound a lot like how you imagine the crew might've complained about some of that stuff being more trouble than it was worth.
Tootling the flute while blowing the Captain's horn, now that's a talented man.
As a distinguished space traveler once said...'watch me, I'll do the fingering'
A real multitasker.
@@Praenuntium like the Borg queen?
First Nerd Crew, now Mr Plinkett?? The boys are answering our prayers. 🙏
prayers UP!
Boys? They'll all like 60 aren't they?
@@McConnor28 60% Awesome!!
Plus 20% old and 20% diabetic @@TheWhippingPost
I RECOGNIZED THOSE THINGS! I CLAPPED TO THAT!
This is like the opposite of a 'you can't unsee it' type video. Every mistake Mr. Plinkett pointed out I immediately forgot after navigating away from the video.
even the Picarms?
Especially the picarms@@whompronnie
Just like how once I was told about the Stormtrooper hitting his head on the door in A New Hope, I now see it every time. AND hear it lol
@@genegade
No, it's the opposite.
@@SvendleBerries I think they edited it so you can hear it more clearly now
Big props to RLM for respectfully releasing this posthumous Plinkett video. It's what he would have wanted ❤
Thoughts and prayers!🙏🏾
Thots and players
"This is all stupid anyways. Why are you watching this?" made me truly ponder exactly that. Then I kept watching.
We all thought Mike was simply getting senile, but no, it's that his brain is just so filled with _Star Trek_ mistakes there's room for nothing else anymore.
Mike is very senile. At 1:39 he told Johnny to "hit it", forgetting that he was abducted by white slavers 9 years ago.
Man, RLM’s other stuff has way surpassed Plinkett. When HITB dropped 10+ years ago, people just wanted more Plinkett reviews. It was smart to push through the risk of branching out and failing. They could’ve just fallen into the trap of hitting the Plinkett whopper button to diminishing returns, becoming another “damn, they’re still around?” channel after their moment passed.
Today through consistency and force of personality, they have the freedom to do anything they want without losing their audience. Star Trek trivia, an embarrassing movie about a space cop, Jenga with Macaulay Culkin… it’s incredible really. Love you guys, RLM forever.
i absolutely love your pfp
I do still think it's the best way of reviewing rise of the Skywalker if he ever decides to
Yeah, just look at AVGN as an example of never being able to branch out and being forced to milk a series for eternity.
They're about family...
I remember one of the Plinkett videos even includes a comment that says something along the lines of "Where's the next Plinkett video nobody gives a shit about Half in the Bag you fat loser". Here we are 10+ years later and the staying power of Half in the Bag is incredible. I will never forget the drunk Halloween episode. "Good night sweet cats" indeed.
I was hesitant to watch this as I'm firmly in the camp of "I can't unsee it once it's pointed out." But this is a level of detail far beyond my world. I can continue rewatching TNG infinitely and never be bothered by the random tape and extension cords. Never leave us again, Mr. Plinkett!
PICARD HANDS
The carpet in a room used by dozens of people every day having stains is just adding to the realism
it's the "used universe" concept from Star Wars
I was kind of hoping that 300 years from now they would have at least solved carpet stains.
@@rapter229 at least they've still got coffee
Does the Enterprise even _have_ cleaning staff?
They just beam out the carpets and replicate new ones once in a while.
Red Letter Media is transitioning into Red Alert: a Star Trek Nostalgia Channel. I support this… for Mike’s mental health in his advancing golden years.
That Picard season 2 review really drove him and Rich to complete madness. So yeah, this is healing.
I don't think coffee stains count as mistakes. Ensign Clumsy wasn't the only coffee-spiller in Starfleet, and all those stains have to wait for Chief O'Brien, the only enlisted man in Starfleet, to come around and clean them up.
Those weren't coffee stains. They were Armus' offspring waiting for their moment to absorb Riker again!
OMG, I literally re-watched the Picard Season 3 reviews yesterday where Mike says, "One day I'll finish my Star Trek TNG mistakes video". Its like Frontier-Day came early!
Hah, same here. Cosmic coincidences.
I didn't know he did a Titanic review until last evening! I was super excited to listen to that one hour analysis!
@@stephenthomas1492 Go to their channel page and open the playlist called “Plinkett’s other Reviews” or “Other Plinkett Reviews” or wtv it’s called. Those old ones are some of my favorites. All the TNG movie reviews are what started it all and are some of the funniest ones. They still make me actually lol on rewatches.
We all thought he was joking. What fools we were.
@@stephenthomas1492I am genuinely happy for you 😊 👏 That’s like when you’re craving ice cream or pie or something a you find some in the freezer that you totally forgot about. It’s like Past You did Present You a solid 😊 ✊🏻
03:50
Riker: "Increase to Warp 6"
Geordi: "Aye sir! Full Impulse"
Mike: "WHAT!?"
XD
Who's Mike? This is Plinkett video
LMAO
“That’s insubordination! Take him to the brig!”
Cuts to ten forward
I remember noticing that on its original live airing.
I've been in a dark place, it has been so long since I've heard Mr. Plinkett. And now tonight, I can safely say I'm in an even darker place. Thanks RLM!
Is it because of all the black paper?
@@snakedogmanunderrated comment
This was made becauae Mike was carefully studying ecery episode to avoid another CRUSHING trivia loss from Rich Evans
Patrick getting sleepy during the Vulcan talking always makes me laugh, I just imagine Picard thinking, "Gosh can we just wrap these negotitations up..."
Isn't that the one that turned out to be a Romulan? He should've been more alert!
@@keithm4953 They actually pulled that trick a couple of times (vulcans turning out to be romulans). You'd think it'd be easier to tell them apart.
@@ThePoshboy1 even the romulans understand enough about humans that when they make a Geordi duplicate, they make sure to get a black guy.
Coffee stains on the Enterprise carpet are lore-accurate in my head.
You just know Mike had an absolute blast making this
I thought I remembered some old guy talking about black paper. So glad this other not-old guy made an explainer, just in case I ever wondered.
It's why they call him "Boom Mike"
I wonder if it was him just getting a silly idea then looking for mistakes or if he and Rich sat down with some beers to pick out mistakes for fun and that just turned into a video.
"Oh noo, I guess I have to watch the entire Star Trek: TNG series from start to finish again. Don't worry Jay, I cleared it with myself first."
Thank goodness we are done with that weird movie stuff and back to our regularly scheduled Star Trek content.
Underneath this video it gave me an ad for some quiz to help with overcoming procrastination tendencies. I'm not procrastinating, TH-cam! I'm getting the most important things done first today: watching a video about minor filming mistakes in a science fiction television program from the 90's. I'll waste time at the gym and cleaning the house only after this grueling work is done, thank you
In a weird way, I actually love the fact that these "blemishes" exist. It adds character to the show and makes it obvious that it was actually filmed, and not just animated to perfection. It's perfectly imperfect so to speak.
i agree
you kiss-ass!
Star Trek has kind of an earnestness to it that I think was actually improved by the high episode numbers. The occasional cheesy episodes or overly abrupt third-act resolutions are part of the charm. Sometimes it's just fun to hang out with Quark, Rom and the Nagus for an hour even if you've heard the jokes before.
Yeah it's weird seeing them. All these bits I associate with the original series and (after season 1) remember TNG being super polished.
If you love that stuff (and you should), just wait until you discover Blake's 7.
I asked Brent Spiner at a convention once years ago if it's true he hated cats. He quipped no, he just hated THAT cat and got a good laugh. Then I saw him us the bit later on stage at some show! 😂
Plinkett voice: "Star Trek: The..."
Me: Ahh, endorphins...
This is like reading a Star Trek I Spy book with a drunk uncle. That's our Plinkett!
It's Mike not Plinkett. But they sound similar so I'll give you that.
It good how Mike provides the voice talent to Mr. Plinkett but it's Jay that enriches us with his endless knowledge of Star Trek
Mike is the... voice... of Mr Plinkett???
(You must be new here, breaking unwritten rules of not calling things like that out. As Chancellor Gowron would say: for this we will forgive... (pause then do creepy eye stare)... but not forget").
KAI-ko? KEE-ko?
With our combined powers we make a relatively decent man.
@@ozbullymorales1020 What you said reminded me of a line from a film -- and then I remembered it was from Ben Hur (1959).
I looked it up to the get the exact quote.
This was said by Simonides:
"There is Malluch, my other half. We met in the dungeons of the citadel. We were released on the same day. Malluch without a tongue, and I without life in my legs. Since then, I have been his tongue... and he has been my legs. Together, we make a considerable man."
@@riccyhandy2503 Honestly, for years I was never sure if it was Mike or Rich. Well, Rich does portray the physical embodiment so my confusion is warranted. And I don't think I've ever heard Mike do the Plinkett voice on HITB (except for the intro!).
Since this means he rewatched everything 100 times for footage I’m going to assume we’re finally getting our every episode retrospective
Oh my god that recorder-player swap at 5:51. That's 1000% another dude. Just mind-shattering.
Yeah you can tell he isn't holding it.
He's playing the tin whistle which takes maybe 30 minutes of practice to hit the notes on
That's lame---at least in Dune Sir Patrick is *holding* the space zither that he is supposed to be playing.
You can tell Sir Patrick is trying not to laugh as well
firmly embedded in the captain's grundle.
Oh my god, I'll never be able to unsee the black paper now.
Until this video, I had *_never_* noticed the black papers before. I guess that's a compliment to the story keeping me engaged.
I am so serious when I say I would listen to Mike do a TNG podcast, with a full breakdown of each episode and fun facts.
We need this now
I love thinking that all the loose carpets, wires, burnt out lights and garbage is actually canon. The Enterprise D really being this 80s beige cruise ship of the stars!
The ceiling of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) was equipped with advanced autonomous recording drones and camera devices to document the ongoing mission of Captain Picard and his crew.
@@kdaltex but that was Lt. Valeris eavesdropping and recording
Just claim they're filming a documentary on the ship and be done with it.
The Enterprise's kids kept taping black paper to the bridge just to annoy Picard.
@@kdaltex Starfleet went so hard on this that they had footage of the Enterprise (NCC-1701) self-destructing from the outside of the ship.
@@keithm4953 Nothing is more certain than kids getting to places they're banned from.
Sooo Mike just watches one TNG episode every night, about 8 times, on a 150 inch screen, hunting for mistakes…“this time I concentrate on the black panels“ he shouts enthusiastically at 3:15am. Am I kind of close ?! 😂
Oh boy, Mike's REALLY got something to say today.
30 mins of Plinkett blunder callouts. fo sho. im down.
Mike?
@@DirectInputMike Who Cheese Harry
I like that we're not even pretending that this isn't an exclusive Star Trek channel now.
AND Kyle Gallner
I Love that we're such geeks for this show that we notice this stuff, but also that they pretty much pulled all of it off working with what they had. It took hd remakes and a kajillion watches to find this stuff. Hats of to them for cranking these episodes out and making magic for us all.
The Carpet Square (at 7 minutes) is because that corridor set doubles up as the Engineering set.
That’s a good catch! 7:00
So it's to power the engineering table. Right!
This is correct. It is where the pool table goes.
Explains why ejecting the warp core always takes a few seconds, unless the plot needs it to take longer.
“Now the most often visited quarters on Star Trek…is Deanna Troi’s quarters”, cut to Troi wearing that bombshell-sexy pink nightgown. 😂
Did not notice this at 23:10 (or take note of the time stamp)
Apparently she likes to keep her quarters ice cold
She offers a special type of counselling for the hard cases.
"I am the Goddess of Empathy...cast off your inhibitions...and eyes up here, bro!"
@@matthayward7889A man of culture I see.
I laughed so hard at "this ship is falling apart!" being played over and over!
As someone who memorized Datas code I also noticed the numbers on the screen being wrong 😂
Stuff like coffee stains, messed up carpets, dents, broken lights, and loose cables or wires taped to things, honestly seems perfectly understandable for a military vessel on a long deployment. Stuff's gonna break, people are gonna spill food and drink, I'm honestly surprised the Enterprise looks as clean as it does 😅
My thoughts exactly having served on a couple warships.. the general rundown state random patches and extension cords make it feel real lmao
That would make sense, but I remember Picard saying once that the Enterprise is so advanced it basically cleans itself.
Besides, the ship usually gets repaired & refurbished in dry dock after a demanding mission.
Yah all of these can easily be explained using in canon resources.
Most of it is caused by the nightshift though.
The "boom mic" is actually the reflection of a _cantangent frombustulator._
True Star Trek fans are already aware of what these do so I won't bore people with that.
"Wesley's poop stains on the carpet..."
Okay, I straight up broke down at this point...
"Wesley's boob stains on the carpet..."
I also would have thought there would have been more dribble stains on the ground around Wesley from when he was near that young woman (she turned out to be a weird transforming entity that he wanted to bone... so I guess that confirms he is somewhat related to Captain Kirk).
Loved the boom mic section, it's like the bridge was haunted by the spirit of a vengeful boom mic, always just barely not out of frame or caught in a reflection.
The carpet stains and paint scuffs just adds realism and a kind of homely feel , 1000 plp live there for years
They forgot to bring custodians, housekeeping, site maintenance and janitorial staff
Some men write poetry to express the divine emotion of Love. Some men paint. Some men make everlasting works of architecture or music.
But Mike, Mike has made the most shining edifice of all.
22:00 Very clever of the production crew to use the holodecks to make sets instead of having build them physically.
In the spirit of trivial nitpicking: that's not a cane at 2:44, that's the bow of a stringed instrument (the scene is set at a string quartet performance).
Came to the comments for this. WHAT A MISTAKE
What a BLUNDER from a *supposed* Star Trek fan, Mike S- i mean, Mr. Plinkett
What a hoax!
@@ganjalf27 Get Rich Evans to be Mr. Plinkett!
Thank you Mr. Plinkett, for taking time off of watching Night Court to watch TNG like no one has ever watched it before
He still has every episode on VHS tape. But sadly, no working VHS machine to play them.
@@lancebaylis3169he needs to find a team of VCR repairmen that can fix it lightning fast
Nihilist asmr.
It sends me to the deep abyss of sleep, devoid of hope or dreams, hoping to wake to the ongoing grown of a man’s obsession with a general vibe.
Art at the end of the world.
Humanity’s glory in the mundane.
9/10, will actually watch again by accident due to autoplay and a lazy algorithm
When the world needed him most, he came back.
You really need that much head?
💩💩💩
@@DirectInputYou can never get too much head
"Increase to Warp 6!"
"Aye sir, full impulse!"
Man, season one was a hilarious mess.
This video has actually been really useful. I have to record a video for work this week and now I know about marks it's going to help me to be much more accurate in the way I go about things. Thanks, Mr. Plinkett!
This is the type of video that will be played at Mike's funeral.
Mike's funeral will have the black squares in the background and boom Mike's in the reflective surfaces.
With fart noises coming from the coffin.
5:35 "Hey, Steve, What are you doing in that weird position with your head between Patrick Stewart's legs" - "I am playing the flute! What did you think?!"
The organ?
@@zimrielno silly, the instrument 😉 of love
Great video. Really enjoyed this one. I agree with you and others. The Picard flute hands are something I'll never be able to unsee. They're so clearly moving independtly of his body.
I like X-men In Space where Professor X can still walk.
In the old TNG Technical Manual it says the famous tall, narrow font they used for everything was intentionally hard to read, I think so it would blend into the background. It's fascinating that they'd intentionally work against their own design principles years later by making all the signage so readable.
Thank you Mr Plinkett - you have shown the world (or perhaps reminded them) how to be hyper-critical but still be respectful. Your love and admiration for STTNG is obvious, and it was good fun running through these errors while at the same time being able to admire what everyone still achieved on the show. Well done for hitting that perfect tone, so rare these days in an age where people assume you need to be extreme to be noticed. Great editing too Mike!
RLM’s Star Trek videos are my go to comfort videos whenever I get stressed out, happy to see more of it.
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This was actually Mike's ploy to become an expert at TNG to destroy Rich's confidence in the next episode of ST Trivia by watching every second of the show over and over again.
I really appreciate the work and research in this video. Thank you Mike. Please keep the old Star Trek alive
“His head is probably right in Patrick Stewart’s grundle.” Wow, hahahaha!
"Pull it closed with your cane!" **musical bow on screen**
haha, yes! it's so funny that *Mr. Plinkett* made that mistake! 😅😅
13:25: “oohhh you know she dropped it hot”
I’m both disgusted but laughing my ass off XD
Mike's really compensating for that HORRIBLY embarrassing Star Trek: The Next Generation Trivia Showdown. LOSING (by roughly 100 points) to Rich Evans has got to be the second worst way to end a promising career in the field of Star Trek trivia!
I heard Mike was going to cut Rich's pay after that ep but he doesn't get paid anything to appear in these videos to begin with
These blunders make me love the show more. It was hard work. Damn hard work. It showed great effort under tight budgets and time constraints.
Right? They weren't aware they were making a timeless and beloved show
It was just work for them, and perhaps a bit of fun but all these little mistakes don't bother me, it actually shows a glimpse into the behind the scenes and makes me feel more connected to the reality outside the episodes
Mr. Plinkett uploads as irregularly as his bowel movements
My favorite is when you’re in the middle of a take, and the boom operator uses the time to eyeball the monitor while they lower and raise the boom mic to see if it’s in the shot.
The most amazing part about all of these hundreds of millions of mistakes is that I never noticed ANY of them over my hundreds of thousands of rewatches, even in 16k HD
I noticed the crewmen coming out of the shitter on the bridge
There's an episode where Geordi is invisible and Brent Spiner steps aside, so Geordi could move past him.
Maybe you need glasses? 👓
As a musician, it's sort of a curse that whenever someone supposedly plays an instrument on television or in a movie, I can tell whether or not they're actually playing.
Amadeus was a little painful in that regard.
My ex was a courtroom reporter and that was her curse watching anything with a trial scene. Not only were the fingers always wrong, the motions themselves were not even close.
@clintonwilcox4690 Try watching the episode in season 1 where Riker has a holodeck girlfriend in a jazz club, and it'll drive you nuts. The drummer's brushes don't touch the snare drum or the cymbal, the pianist does not depress the keys, and in a close-up of the bassist's hand, the strings do not vibrate after supposedly being plucked.
[Cinema Sins ding]
Plinkett: Shut up, I'm talking!
Something something Rich Evans....something something Kintsugi; the Japanese art of fixing something with gold, to recognize a flaw can be beautiful.
Jack Crusher II: Mm. Turns out I’m not crazy. No, I’m just broken. Now the way I see it, I can either wallow in self-pity, or I can be like those Japanese tea cups which get put back together with melted gold. Or in my case, bourbon.
I think my favorite part of all of this is that I’ve never noticed ANY of this before. It really is a great show in that it keeps you engage enough to not worry about the unimportant stuff that they didn’t have the time or money to fix.
Just noticed another nitpick I hadn't seen before: At @23:50, when the turbolift opens, the carpet in the turbolift clearly extends past the turbolift floor itself, and is almost continuous with the carpet of the deck floor, almost as if the turbolift is part of the same flooring as the deck, like it's one big "set" or something.
I’d love to see RLM explain how the script writing process worked then versus now: script submissions, sometimes from major sci-fi writers, with only the best ones used; versus today’s “writers rooms” of a few people trying to construct every episode themselves.
"a few people trying to construct every episode themselves". You must be old. Today everything's done with ChatGPT.
only the best ones like code of honor and sub rosa
Steve Martin sums it up in Only Murders: "...and it's a real show, with writers and everything! Not just an executive producer screaming lines into a tape recorder while high on cocaine!"
You should see also how scripts get paired down, chopped up, and rearranged in editing. Original scripts might have about 2 hours worth of filmmable content. Then they omit scenes, combine others, remove characters, and truncate/simplify dialogue to get it down to 1 hour, film it, and then edit it down further to fit for television. As a result some episodes come out weak, somewhat hamfisted, with important missing scenes/characters/dialogue, often with a rushed/deus ex ending, and disowned by the writers as completely divorced from their original idea/concept/plot.
For. REAL.
Mike's artism for this show never ceases to amaze me
Did you mean "autism"?
@@joaocosta5193 No, but he makes a very regal Emperor
Rich Evans is such a prolific artist he can both play Mr Plinkett liveaction and make an imitation of Mike imitating Plinkett. Such a great range as an actor and voice actor.
I'm a type 1 diabetic so the insulin pump jokes made me giggle, my pump is charging on a cord rn
Dont leave your diabetes meds out around where Mike can get at em.
11:24 Orville evoided the glare problem by not having reflective material on the backdrop of the bridge, and keep shots at an angle from the side panels. Obviously in TNG, instead of making needed changes, they committed to the bit to the bitter end.
Aw man you made me sad. I want more seasons of Orville.
@@SomeKindaSpydon't be sad because it might be over, smile because we saw the doctor and the sentient goober get down n dirty.
And star trek 2009 avoided it by having so much lens flare off fucking everything that audiences were rendered blind
@@apathyboy Sadly, the new shows have copied that strategy.
@@JosephDaviesI thought they just made everything so dark, so you can't possibly see anything.
I think we can all agree that this is truly a joyous day. I have been waiting with bated breath for the return of the great one.
This has to be one of the most fun videos I've seen in a long time. Honestly, it's a very good-natured celebration of this great show!