Commander Riker's Trying To Sell.....Some Type Of Crap... 

Uh...

Mega based ❤

@@Immortalrounin Based in ignorance and fear, sure.

Why were you talking to yourself in the mirror?

I just got here. what's going on?

Someone should edit this so that all the Riker bits are replaced with Harold talking to a blank screen.

@@TheFirefox Enterprise without Enterprise

But I'd rather dive into Gene Roddenberry's universe than, say, that of H P Lovecraft or J K Rowling.

I love your profile picture.

If Riker appeared to me at work, I'd have to stop taking acid before my shift.

you're wrong. This is fiction.

@@ladyofthesith1943 I’d double up on it.

SHUT UP! As in close your mouth and stop talking!

I beg your pardon?!

One or both?! ;)

Will, I sense you are angry.

@@manco828 Deanna, back off.

Haha.

Faceless Man Calling Sapphire & Steel. It's no longer just in photos. Now it's in youtube videos. _Every_ youtube video.

I thought when he had a fantasy he was talking about the holodeck

20 minutes later, it did...

No, Stefan, it's not Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's the next generation of information systems management. And what you just heard was the sound of your panties dropping, regardless of the fact that you do not wear them.

primitive man was never meant to manage their enterprise so efficiently, and without all the hassle.

Wisdom has to be earned, it must not be given away.

+winkoman3 How do you know he didn't invent the thing? ;)

Hahaha! Hope I wasn't the only one who got that :D

JediPolock haha no, you're not the only one.

lol

I think you mean the Harold Maneuver

It all sounds very straight forward to me…

It will still be Kirk's fault somehow. The man is a menace.

Well you gotta be more specific, which Enterprise are we talking here?

@@CathrineMacNiel No bloody A, B, C, or D.

Will will blame Tom, Tom will blame Will. It’s the perfect temporal crime.

It could be a self fulfilling loop

This works like "We must never interfere in other cultures" ; It gets said to have it on the record that the people in charge were distinctly not violating the rule they were in the middle of gratuitously demolishing down to atoms.... but when there is a review, they can say 'the record shows we were trying to follow the rules'.

But, they don't use money in the future. So, if this was Riker's plan, then it backfired.

​@@dexoearth9167he'll invest in latenim

The UFP doesn't use money, Bolians, Ferengi and I believe private citizens do too, like freelance shuttle pilot Kassidy Yates, aka Mrs. Sisko #2.

The writers have always skirted the issue of whether or not the Federation uses currency. In "Encounter at Farpoint", Dr. Crusher finds a bolt of fabric she likes and tells the vendor to charge it to the Enterprise. In another episode, a merchant says he doesn't accept Federation credits. I believe that Federation officers don't get paid per se, but instead receive a stipend for service. The Federation has to have some type of shared currency to conduct trade between members and non-members; bartering is only going to get them so far.

@@joe9739Gold pressed latinum.

Now that's some pretty cool info! Figured it was some type of non-public proposal, but was never able to find any info on it! I'll add some of your post to the description, as it actually makes sense relating to the video. Appreciate the knowledge!

Cool story bro, such a rivetting tale.

+Wilson Maffetano Glad that all worked out for you, seriously. Nonetheless, this promotional video sucks ass... and yet is mesmerizing and hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Frakes loves himself some shill.

+Wilson Maffetano Your company needs people like you. You have vision!

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It wouldn't be the oddest interaction with the 20th century

I said shut up as in shut your mouth! Lol

I beg your Pardon.

Riker was as deep in debt as he was as deep into freakish holodeck porn, and was blackmailed into highly unethical chrono-marketing by the Orion syndicate.

@@SMFCNA yes yess

That’s basically Picard’s speech in “A Matter of Time” RASMUSSEN: If I were to influence you, everything in this sector, in this quadrant of the galaxy could change. History, my history, would unfold in a way other than it already has. Now what possible incentive could anyone offer me to allow that to happen? PICARD: I have two choices. Either way, one version of history or another will wend its way forward. The history you know or another one. Now who is to say which is better? What I do know is here, today, one way, millions of lives could be saved. Now isn't that incentive enough? RASMUSSEN: Everyone dies, Captain. It's just a question of when. All of those people down there died years before I was born. All of you up here, as well. So you see, I can't get quite as worked up as you over the fate of some colonists who, for me, have been dead a very, very long time. PICARD: Of course, you know of the Prime Directive, which tells us that we have no right to interfere with the natural evolution of alien worlds. Now I have sworn to uphold it, but nevertheless I have disregarded that directive on more than one occasion because I thought it was the right thing to do. Now, if you are holding on to some temporal equivalent of that directive, then isn't it possible that you have an occasion here to make an exception, to help me to choose, because it's the right thing to do? RASMUSSEN: We're not just talking about a choice. It sounds to me like you're trying to manipulate the future. PICARD: Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or on Risa? A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. *Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet.*

I want a full series of inter dimensional salesman Riker, in a sorta dreamy weird Neil Gaiman sandman type thing

ALternatively this might be from the pocket universe Beverly created in “Remember Me” except Riker is the last one standing and not Bev.

So, this is the universe where the Ferengi took control of the universe!

Truly, a self-made man.

Time travel's funny that way.

There's no "money" in the 24th century though.

Addison Ford Except for all the money shown on DS9

Was Harold related to David Xanatos?

"...you'll think you're a first year cadet again"

LOL

Xepthrichros To be fair, the Enterprise might be running Wine or a Windows 3.1 VM.

It actually appears to be running OS/2. Which is hard to virtualize in our era, but technology's improved in the 24th century.

Those screens showed OS/2. Fun Fact OS/2 Warp got its name from Star Trek.

That doesn't imply that LOL

The Enterprise is shown to be able to interface with basically any computer ever, including (just to name a few “ancient” ones) the Iconian probe and the disk drives from the cryogenic satellite in “The Neutral Zone”. The Enterprise doesn’t run anything like current (or 90s) tech; it’s just so powerful and well-programmed that it can interface with anything, possibly by just brute forcing the encoding scheme

I also hate myself

I strongly disagree but I also laughed really hard so have my upvote!

*haha disco bad* Am I funny yet?

@@CoralCopperHead Nope.

Sisko: And I want you to not give him the death penalty Dukat: *Plays video* Sisko: *Shoots Riker*

he wasn't beamed onto the enterprise, he was being taken to a mental hospital

Yes. Mental Breakdown. That sounds exactly like something Temporal Investigations would believe... ... I mean something that could have happened.

That sounds like it should be an episode of Lower Decks.

+terminat1 I love you

Well, if you're a lady, how about a date then? :)

I'm not, sorry:(

Brilliant hahaha and the little conversation after 😊😂😊

Excellent explanation.

+Koldeman And how high would his eyebrow be raised? I'd imagine he'd need a dozen Earl Grey's LOL.

He would've told Wesley to shut up...

Picard: "Number One, why is there a man from the 20th century in my command chair?!"

Honestly, I'm damn impressed by Frakes' ability to deliver his lines with such sincerity in this situation. Compare that to that one clip of Patrick Stewart complaining about the script he's been given for some ad for an energy company (or was that the ad itself? can't remember).

It's cheesy, especially the out of focus appearance of the Enterprise on the guy's monitor. But, Frakes is a pro and he delivers. Or is it just that we could never distinguish his style of acting from a convention center business film promo in the first place?

@@davidc.2878 Star Trek is cheesy too

For the annoyed fans, it’s what happens when liberalism meets reality.

hahahahaha

Its Earth... He's in violation of the Temporal Prime Directive, which supercedes the regular one.

Well Done! well done! Live Long and Prosper fellow Trekkie.

***** They have room for interpretation but I'm sure "don't go saying 'hi, I'm from the future and I'm going to help you in accounting' to anyone" is a def NO-NO.

+Errin Pritchard Damn, someone else said it first. :)

+Errin Pritchard And in clear violation of professional acting 101. Take your eyes off the damn cue card, Frakes!

I'm glad I played a small part in making meme gif history.

Which one? There are 5 Enterprises.

@@CathrineMacNiel 6

I was on the fence over whether to give you an upvote but the Scorpius(Harvey?) picture pushed me over the edge.

Taras Shevchenko Hahaha.... Yeah. Anything with Scorpy is awesome.

Right in the last thirty seconds we have: 1. Harold clumsily talking about living out a "fantasy". 2. Riker giving the biggest "I'm about to get freaky" smiles ever recorded as he abducts Harold. 3. Harold's boss describing him as a little strange...a little queer even. And we end with Harold suggestively saying "oh wow" right as the enterprise enters warp.

LadyMizra so right!

Boole and Babage probably paid them to use it. Any owner of content can license their content to other people in return for money.

MONEEEEYYY!!! *throws it around* FILTHY MONEEEYY!! *rubs it up* That's how.

In 1993, Boole & Babbage announced at the Computer Measurement Group annual conference that they had bought a two-year licence from Paramount Pictures to use Star Trek imagery in their advertising for COMMAND/Post and MainView for $75,000 a year.[4]

DarthRushy Because Data is a responsible crew member and sticks to the Prime Directive... unlike Riker... :D

JJ did a fine job. You went in expecting an instant legend.

JJ did a shit job. Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and an awesome cast pulled that shit up by their bootstraps.

i find it's easier to think of Star Trek '09 as a fan re-boot rather than a full fledged cannon film. Esp after re-examining the cast.

Thank you!

"What if instead of using time tested story telling structure, what if you set up a bunch of mysteries that you had no idea how to resolve? Instead of getting called out on it as a cheap marketing tactic worthy of 1930s film serials, I'll give a TED talk to make the idea sound cool and interesting. - JJ "FUCKING PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING!" - The U.S. entertainment industry.

It's just OS/2 you fuck.

Well, this is not any crap nor any ordinary commercial. I've worked for a multinational IT company in the 1990's and we used Boole & Babage's Enterprise System and it was really excepcional at the time. It allowed us to have full control on our network and solve many problems very easily. About this video, it's in fact part of a series of tapes which were distributed to potencial customers to evaluate their proposal. And B&B has even issued a special poster using the Enterprise-D plans to demonstrate how to improve one's business. I believe all this promotional stuff has not been public available...

But hey he requested asylum :^)

Check the comment from the guy above, Wilson-something. This is from the 1990's, when Token Ring was not yet totally obsolete. But yes, that caught my eye at once.

Prowly-b He just finnish killing and eating the rest of the crew. Now hes not only Number 1. He's now Only 1

+Prowly-b Because Frakes loves him some heaping piles of shill. Dood makes Ferengi's facepalm.

+Shayne O'Neill Damn, that cracked me up.

I think I was pretty drunk when I wrote that lol