Like Putting A Fish In A Bucket Of Water 

1:34 -- That was a close one; it almost knocked over that empty plastic barrel. That could have broken somebody's spine.

Dear Starfleet Engineers, Just a heads up, please try to avoid reconfiguring your sensors to the attached spec, as it can sometimes cause interdimensional aliens to warp reality on your ship and abduct your crewmates for deadly experiments. Hope you're having a great day! G. La Forge

This episode was one of the most terrifying ones when I was young. The scene where they're reconstructing their memories in the holodeck always gave me chills.

Picard: "All crew members are safe and accounted for." Riker: "Lieutenant Hagler's dead."

Like putting a fish in a bucket of beans

"Ensign Rager and I were lucky to have escaped. Lt. Hagler is dead. Whoever it was that sent that thing, was more than simply curious".

1:08 - OMG that cracks me up! The alien doing a little waddle, then Riker phases it, and the alien does full slip and fall with feet splayed out!

Lt. Hagler (?) is dead. Meanwhile the Captain: "All Enterprise Crewmembers are safe and accounted for :)"

And then we never saw them again

I always felt bad for Lt. Hagler. RIP.

Another great eisode that the writers failed to take advantage of with follow up stories.

Imagine being the bean man himself. Limitless power and yet blessing us mortals with great cuts.

1:21 Riker dropped his phaser.

Those whacky solanogen-based life forms… ya just never know what kind of hijinks are afoot when they show up.

1:20 The phaser was dropped but then reappears at 1:30

Shipley is the real hero here. He's actually the ship in disguise.

That's it. I'm subscribing. Have no idea what all the damn beans are about, but they've definitely worked.

1:20 He dropped his phaser lol

Ok good episode. Thanks Parso, here we go, the college years and couldn't get my beans, so now I having them 🖖🤓🤗🎶

This was a missed opportunity as there could've been follow up episodes where we'd have found out who these aliens were, what was their motivations and what were their plans.

Remember how 1990s TV shows typically had self-contained episodes with no ongoing storylines or character development? Except for soap operas, of course! I recall watching Full House and noticing how characters would be introduced in one episode and then never appear again. It's fascinating to see how TV storytelling has evolved since then, with more complex, serialized narratives becoming the norm. The xfiles was an exception and i think a pioneer in continuing a narrative. Yet they would have more stand alone episodes as well. All tv shows including the next generation had a continuing narrative in a sense but was not a main point in almost all of the episodes. X files seemed to continue the narrative as a main theme in about half or more of their episodes. But i must say my favorite x files episodes were the stand alone stories.

Rikers hairstyle at the end.

Man, those cargo bays seem like genuine death traps… no tethering, no fixation… 😅

The aliens look like they could be related to the *Deep Ones* from the novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by HP Lovecraft

And here we have yet another intriguing plot hook that TNG never touched again.

2:49 - Geordi's visor is crooked

Guess the plasma infusion didn't do much for the guy whose blood was turning into plastic. Dr. Crusher should have tried beans instead!

Like a balloon, when something bad happens!

Riker, his hair especially, appear different. He looks aged, stressed. I'm not sure if that is by design for the episode or it is just natural.

This is like an alien abduction story in Star Trek.

TNG idea of the Grey Area 51 Alien

I;ve been watching clips of this show before going to work...I'm so re-watching this episode again tomorrow! I love ST TNG. It had lots of excitement, exciting episdoes that created that feeling without action soaked episdoes., and morality tales to boot Just loved that series...loved it

Guitar and remix at the end, good stuff.

Where is the "Subscribe" Picard audio from?

Iconians did it.

Let’s hit ‘em again. Recharge the beans. Come on!

Like putting too much air in a balloon!

This species would get another mention in Star Trek Online, during an unexpected trip inside Iconian subspace, and it was apparent that they were servants of the Iconian race.

More beans, more beans, No.1

I always thought I’d seen every episode of TNG. I never saw this one. Good creepy episode.

1:34 They were lucky it didn't knock over that spine breaking barrel.

The ending is very chilling. Those aliens were evil and hostile.

Don't you guys think this fish ship looks like the Picard era starships a little bit?

someone told me you like beans, is it correct?

Ensign Beanger and I were lucky to have escape

Aliens with strange mandibles for hands, yet appear to have human feet @1:14 hahaha! If I was Riker in that situation I would have put the phaser on kill and eliminated all of the freaky little cretins before departing home!

Very curious

Definitely needs a follow up resolution. Some one please write a novel!

00:53 to 00:58 - what is it with the set in the background on the right side here? It looks like a part of the stage and there is some activity going on behind the open space?

I love peas. They are green, round and delicious. PEAS.

And it would not be resolved or followed up on until Star Trek Online

If only they'd had beans...

Regarding the "probe" that escaped, did that ever play out in a later episode or series? Even a mention?

Jordie was a bit of a shit boss right there. Gave an order, waited less than a single second then prompted with a "cmon" as if shipman wasnt already carrying jordies ass

First I thought the minor characters (the women at data's presentation and the engineer) had something to do with the abductions, given how much the camera focused on them.

I made up stories in my head. For example, I thought of an idea where a boy appears aboard the enterprise in a starfleet uniform and explains that he is the son of Picard. They know that this is impossible, but when the boy sees Picard, he remarks that he looks older, but he is indeed his father. They do a DNA test, and it is a match.

😢 we need more I’m already subscribe

All clips are great. But since I subscribed, I've been wondering how you got Patrick Stewart to say the "good lord didn't any body here subscribe?". Or are you a genius computer programmer?

The missing 411 episode 😳😳😳😳

Great episode. Stolen straight from Blake 7.

The aliens were more than curious. They did medical experiments on the Enterprise crew. The crew were experimental animals in their evil alien surgeries.