Given the fact that The Dog is capable of not only speech but able to think for itself enough to not tell Tendi they were a mistake means The Dog was 100% fucking with the rest of the crew by creeping them out
Probably but I also like to think partly she wanted to show off her cool skills because dogs love showing off being praised. I can’t help but assume Tendi praised her for her weird abilities so…
Given the creature can abuse its genetic malleability to turn into a metal cube I think it is safe to say Dvana Tendi might have stumbled upon the earliest stages of genetic engineering technology the founders used to make themselves into shape-shifting living liquid lifeforms way back before they founded the dominion and I think she deserves a science award for that.
@@liamzakhaev that doesn't really go against or for your point. i think the idea of a species making itself into goo is pretty cool, and its a fun fan theory. like at some point they went and end of evangelioned themselves. thats hilarious
@@weldonwin again, yet, remember, Tendy took down several romulans at a moments notice while on a stealth mission, we have no idea what that dog is capable of
"That's exactly what I was going for!" I mean, I suppose I get it. Building an absolute abomination with help from starship-grade computers is probably easy, just input parameters and let the computer puzzle out the rest. But hand-building a dog? Would be rather nifty, to say the least.
me on first watch: Dr. T'Ana is a science pro and knows a weird science experiment when she sees one! me on second watch: Ohhh Dr. T'Ana is just strongly prejudiced against dogs :)
Because one person was slightly reckless? And nothing bad happened afterwards anyway. Also, genetic engineering was banned throughout Federation. That was one of the criteria for acceptance.
I always thought that her naming the dog "The Dog" was a sendup that they never gave The Doctor a name that stuck for seven seasons of Voyager. But "I know! I just didn't want you to worry!" is one of my favorite lines in the series so far alongside, "No, get outta here, Q, we are done with random stuff today! We're not dealing with any of your Q bullshit!"
@@toysmostwanted Not every Orion is a member of the Syndicate, a fact that she actually yells at Mariner for casting her as a pirate in her holo-movie... she does look amazing in that Orion Pirate costume though
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Which is close to confirming something I have suspected a while, that Tendi basically ran away from home. She hates violence, hates intimidating people, in other words, she hates everything about the Syndicate and joined Starfleet as an act of rebellion and in order to help people.
Tendi - extremely high intelligence stat but used wisdom as a dump stat... One of my favourite animation characters + plus that snigger at 0:47 was so cute!!
God bless Tendi, she's so damn innocent. If her Orion pheromones ever activate, every male on the ship will go berserk fighting other males for her favor, and she'll be clueless.
I'm gonna guess they wouldn't have even let her on a ship without thinking of someway to counteract that. I mean LD is meant to be comedy more than logical so I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to work it into the plot anyway but surely some sort of pheromone blockers would be nessicary for her to be allowed into a small tin in space full of people suceptable to her influence, intentional or otherwise. Edited for glaring distracting grammatical error.
actually i'm pretty sure that star fleet created some sort of vaccine for it's personnel can't remember where or when but it is a thing although it's also not 100% effective
I like to think that the reason it doesn't do things around Tendi is because she is projection The others treat it as a nuisance and not a dog, so it becomes a monster, but Tendi treats it as a dog, a good dog, so that is what it becomes
@@numinous123 oh, you count the old movies based on tv show? I've always just called them 1 to 10. So, I'm talking about the fifth tos movie (I know its name in my native language, but I'm not sure it's the same in english)
That reminds me of this line from this movie with a Dragon in it about how the dragon was questioning the human's choice to call him "Dragon" just using a language he didn't speak.
Reminds me of Milo Murphy's* pet in "Milo Murphy's Law". He named his dog "Dee-Oh-Gee." Later in the series he meets a girl who is a female version of himself with a pet pig named "Pee-Eye-Gee." *Milo Murphy is a descendent of the man who created Murphy's Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong. He is cursed to have continual bad luck where everything goes wrong for him. As an example, once a year he gets 500 pre-approved excuse slips to cover all of the injuries he will receive in that year.
@@spencersholden Pretty sure TNG still holds the trophy for worst episode ever in Trek - "Code of Honor" Written by Katharyn Powers who also wrote (funnily enough) the SG1 episode "Emancipation" which is pretty much the exact same plot - just with a different racial group being stereotyped.
@@HaddaClu Part of the problem was the director of that episode. Originally, some of the guards were supposed to be white, but the director changed it to make EVERYONE black instead. It's still a poorly-written episode, though.
At the end of this particular episode, Tendi meets a real dog who does a very dog like thing and licks her face. Tendi is disgusted by it and says the dog is a "weirdo".
I've always wanted to see any of the Star Trek crews tackle Red Dwarf villains, especially the Polymorph Imagine this Geordi: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong. Data: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies. Riker: So what went wrong? Data: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
@@mattevans4377 Dax: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong. Bashir: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies. Sisko: So what went wrong? Bashir: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
@@spyrofan9681 Quark: I've said a lot of things about you Odo, but you were never a danger to this outpost. Now let's get you that drink you paid for earlier but never got. Odo: I don't recall buying a drink. Quark: Of course you did, but the Red Alert happened the second money changed hands. Odo: I'm sure it did.
You missed the scene where she's in the background tearing up the Division 14 ship while Boimler is getting chased. I didn't catch it until the second time I watched it and it sent me when I did.
@@MichaelBradley1967 nah, peanut hamper was a traitor. Maybe if The Dog and Peanut Hamper fight to the death, that would be alright. And only if The Dog wins.
One of my favorite parts of this episode was the reveal that they actually WERE going to a resort planet, the guy in charge was just bad at social situations or something
The best part of this entire Escapade isn't even shown in this clip; when an actual dog licks tendy after the last scene shown here, she gets grossed out because it licked her, which is something she has no idea that normal dogs actually do all the time LOL
Did that dog give anyone else flashbacks to that TNG episode, where there is that shapeshifter that replaces people and then took the shape of the dog?
This is the best Star Trek show I have ever seen in recent years. My order is TNG Lower Decks Voyager and Discovery. TOS DID NOT MAKE MY MIST CAUSE I HAVE YET TO WATCH IT
Later on, The Dog formed a team of weirdos, freaks, and people with family issues to fight off an invasion of ancient beings. Still am surprised at who voiced The Dog, then again, her range of voice acting is very good.
I suggest a blood test on the dog. It’s not a dog. It’s THE dog. It’s THE dog thing that’s imitating a dog in Star Trek. This is definitely a tribute to the 1983 movie the thing
