STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | TIME'S ARROW (PT 1 & 2) | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Cassie: "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second." Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Sam Clemons.

Cassie may be the only person in history to say "well, guess we'll have to kill Mark Twain" LMAO

Jack London wrote the call of the wild and white fang.

Cassie, when the old man with the cough was talking about a "49er", it is slang used in that time and refers to a miner who prospected during the California Gold Rush of 1849.

Jerry Hardin, who played Clemens, was so well received as Mark Twain in this episode he created a one man show where he played Clemens. He told me it was a life saver when acting jobs were getting farther apart, he could schedule his OMP and he knew that his Star Trek fans would show up to see the play. This part he played continued to pay dividends years after he was in Star Trek. He enjoyed how many "young people" would come to the play after being introduced to the part in Star Trek.

Twain died in 1910 but he lived long enough to have his voice recorded. Yes, that is how his voice sounded.

*Cassie's villain origin to protect the mission:* " I guess we'll have to kill him!" 11:49 😂 *Note to self:* Don't eavesdrop on Cassie.

I literally slapped my head when Cassie said "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second."

In case anybody is wondering what was said in French at the poker table, The poker player (who was totally NOT a Cardassian) said: My parents were from Bourgon. Data's response was: Then we are almost brothers.

"Circumstances demand that I take you into my confidence." I wish I could talk like that

Cassie: "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second..." Me: "Wellllllllllll...."

"In a cavern in a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter Clementine>"

Jack London (the bellhop) was another famous writer who wrote White Fang and the Call of the Wild.

Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Clemens/Twain, became so enamored of the character in this story that he developed a one-man show of himself as Clemens/Twain and toured the country after this story was aired.

The "frenchman" at the poker game, by the way, is Marc Alaimo, who has played many characters on Star Trek. His most famous is the Cardassian Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine. One of my favorite parts of this two-parter is at the end in the cave when Guinan says "I'll see you in 500 years" and Picard says "And I'll see you in 5 minutes".

I still amuses me, that in the scene where they're in the boarding house talking, they all look so uncomfortable in their 19th century clothing...except Picard, who looks perfectly at ease.

"I thought that was Mark Twain for a second"🤔... 🤣🤣🤣

LMFAO 😂 mr Colonel Sanders, that's Mark Twain my dear, Samuel Clemens was his real name LOL

Mind blower: In the season three finale, when Picard was commiserating because he didn't know whether human civilization would survive the Borg attack, and he cried to Guinan about it, and Guinan tried to console him... Though she didn't say it, she knew all along that Picard and humanity would prevail, because she knew that he had not yet gone back in time to meet her in 19th Century San Francisco, which he couldn't do if he was dead or assimilated. Mind blown...

Although I know it probably won't win any Patreon polls, I wish Cassie would watch DS9. She'd love Sisko, Dax, Bashir, and Odo...

When she called Samuel Clemens, Colonal Sanders, I nearly spat my coffee! 🤣

I got to see Patrick Stewart on New Year’s Eve perform a one man show of a Christmas carol. He did the show on a break from Star Trek. It was fantastic and truly showed his range.

Gul Dukat at the poker table made me scream out loud. I love when they reuse actors.

Fun fact (no spoilers): almost the entire cast of TNG did voices for the cartoon show Gargoyles. Brent Spiner played Puck, the trickster from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the voice he’s using as Puck in this episode is the same he uses in Gargoyles 🖤

The enterprising young bell hop was celebrated author Jack London, who would have been 17 in 1893. London would become enamored of the Alaskan frontier, writing such classics as _White Fang_ and _The Call of the Wild._

I'm a fan of Twain, which was his penname btw. His actual birth name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens. In terms of his personality, he was rather notorious as being a long-spoken and very gruff individual when it came to his ideas. He also had a particular disdain for the human species as a whole and when it came to his witticisms he put most people off. I imagine the episode did a pretty good job of portraying him as the average individual would have seen him and interacted.

Its been 30 years and my Mom still doesn't grasp how Data can have 2 heads at the same time. She needs Doc Brown form Back to the Future to draw her a diagram 😅

Again, thank you for your authentic enjoyment of the show. I hate when people fake it and appreciate you not insulting our intelligence

Samuel Clemons is Mark Twain.

"I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" From what I understand, the man was Ornery. As. Eff. :P ("The Adventures of Mark Twain", a 1985 Claymation film, actually leans into this fact.)

In 1849 the California Gold Rush started. The gold was found at Sutter's Mill near Coloma CA. The miners who traveled there were called "49ers". Yes that's why San Francisco's NFL team are called the "49ers".

After this episode I did some historical research and found that Jack London and Mark Twain were indeed in San Francisco at about the same time. The real Jack London was pretty much as portrayed in this episode; just a hustler kind of guy doing odd jobs and scratching around trying to make a living. At the time, Twain was famous and London was unknown. Who knows? The real Twain and London may have indeed crossed paths at some point, with Twain offering the young London some advice that set him on a path that led to "Call of The Wild" and "White Fang." "Truth is stranger than fiction."

William Boyett (1927-2004), who in Part II here plays the policeman who confronts Riker, also played the police detective in the first Dixon Hill episode of _TNG,_ "The Big Goodbye", who tries to arrest Hill for the murder of Jessica Bradley. He was a regular in _Adam-12_ (1968-1975), where he played Reed's & Malloy's sergeant, "Mac" MacDonald.

Twain's every sentence could be prefaced by "I do declare!"

Jerry Hardin played Mark Twain. He's still alive at 94.

This episode plays out like an episode of Doctor Who and I love it so much.

'Mark Twain' was the pen name of author Samuel L. Clemens. One of Clemens' many careers was riverboat pilot, and the term 'mark twain' was a riverboat term referring to the depth of the water the boat was navigating. A leadsman would stand near the bow of the boat with a 30-foot weighted rope marked in 1-fathom (6-foot) increments, and further into one-quarter-fathom fractions. 'Mark twain' or 'mark two' referred to 2 fathoms, or 12 feet of water depth. The leadsman would take the sounding and sing out the depth, loud enough for the pilot to hear it and make steering decisions for the boat. By way of example, these are some actual soundings called out by a leadsman, of a boat going from no detectable bottom (deeper than 4 fathoms) to nearly running aground, taken from an amusing story in chapter 13 of Clemens' book _Life on the Mississippi:_ "'D-e-e-p four!' M-a-r-k three!... M-a-r-k three... Quarter less three!... Half twain! Quarter twain! Quarter twain! MARK twain! Quarter LESS twain! Nine and a HALF!" I like to think that Sam Clemens, with his fertile imagination, must have been somewhat amused by the two-fathom term, and everytime he heard a leadsman sing it out, thinking how it sounded like someone's name, and that was what prompted him to adopt it as his pen name when he became an author.

"Mark Twain?! I don't want to be annoyed by MARK TWAIN!" Classic PIB moment right there. I'm still laughing about it now.

Cassie seems to have a Crush on Riker. My brother actually dated Johnathan Frake's first wife when they were 14. So many memories.

i'm on the opposite side in that it's quite confusing to me how people can't understand time paradoxes/causality loops , it's pretty simple to get.

Fun fact the actor that played mark twain was so interested in the character and later created a one man show about him

I understand why you're only watching a few selected episodes from each season. However, just know that watching your reactions to all 178 episodes is a "Trek" I would have happily taken with you!

As a Brit I'm not an expert in American literature but Samuel Clements was the real name of author Mark Twain. The bellboy Jack London also became an author, I think he wrote about all sorts of jobs and adventures he had, interesting people he met, etc. Presumably inspired by these incredible events!

I love that you're getting so into Star Trek. It's really fun for me to watch someone get so onto something I've been a fan of my whole life

"I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" That's exactly how I felt about this episode.

Mark Twain pretty much sounded just like that in real life. He was quite a character.

"49er" refers to miners that took part in the 1849 gold rush.

Mark Twain was one of America’s greatest writers. He was also a renowned orator. It’s the orator/performer we see here. I recommend Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight!”

I'm always shocked at the amount of classic literature people don't know. Sam Clemens IS Mark Twain, and Jack London is famous for the Call of the Wild, White Fang and the Sea Wolf

7:13, Mark Alaimo! Played a Mars Company cop in Total Recall. Will be a voice to remember if you head into spinoffs.

this is where mark twain got the inspiration for "a yankee in king author's court" lol

That severed cyborg head in the dirt was kind of haunting. Looked like an episode of The Walking Dead there for a second.

Two of my favorite episodes. I spent a lot of time in Hannibal MO as a kid and Mark Twain was my grandmother’s favorite author.

It’s always a great evening when I get to see Cassie!😊

Clemens/Twain having a distrust of Data's invention and technology does make sense. In real life he was offered an opportunity to be a founding partner in what would become AT&T. He turned it down partially because he didn't understand how it worked. He also saw phones as a toy for the rich, and thought they'd eventually become bored or annoyed with others being able to contact them quickly and without warning.

“I thought that was Mark Twain for a second” …oh Cassy. You sweet summer child.

Tbh, this is actually my favorite STNG episode. Clemens did write a Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889, so time travel was not an unknown idea. Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Twain/Clemens had never played Twain to that point, but became enamored with the role and created a 1 man show where he plays Twain. His portrayal is fairly accurate as the real Clemens was a bit of character. A lot more to the guy than just Huck Finn...

Always a joy to spend some time with you Cassie. And I agree Mr Clemens voice was a bit grating, however the actor (Jerry Hardin) did a good job in his portrayal. Hal Holbrook used to do a one man show called An Evening with Mark Twain (I think) which I was fortunate enough to see many years ago, and Mr. Hardin compares favorably.

I was lucky enough to watch this when it originally aired. I live within a reasonable commute away from San Francisco, so seeing it in fiction is always interesting. I've been a huge bookworm throughout my life, so seeing Mark Twain and Jack London in TNG was so cool back then. I've always appreciated how Star Trek incorporates literary references into its writing. Also, I visited/hiked at Jack London State Historic Park (which includes his house, the burned ruins of his mansion, and both his and his wife's graves) the day before Thanksgiving last year. Good times.

One of my favorites! I always love the time travel episodes.

"Mark Twain! I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" said by every American student in their 7th grade intro to American Literature class.

"Agh, forehead hole!" 🤣🤣

S6: Relics, *, Ship in a Bottle, Tapestry & Frame of Mind. *Bonus video: Chain of Command 1+2 S7: Parallels, The Pegasus, Lower Decks, Genesis & *. *Bonus Video: All Good Things... (Finale, double length) Let's go, Patreon! 🤞🤞

Love your reaction Cassie. Dilly Dilly. Not sure if the Patreon polls for Season 6 are up, but here are my picks: (Note: This will mirror how you did Season 5) Part 1: - Relics - Chain of Command Parts 1 & 2 Part 2: - Tapestry - Starship Mine - Lessons Also, if you do continue on with more Star Trek, will you consider a reaction to “Emissary”; the pilot episode for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?

6:44 yes, the 49ers were people who came here (the San Francisco Bay Area) when gold was discovered here, seeking fortune...starting in 1849. 🙂 14:01 yes, Mark Twain was the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens, who made several visits to our fair city. 🙂 16:00 Jack London was a famous American author as well; he wrote, for example, The Call of the Wild. There is a Jack London Square in Oakland, on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay. 🙂

Jack London is another classic writer. He wrote "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild". Great adventure books.

He programmed it into Data's head that got trapped in the past. That's the one they found in the future, and attached to Data's body when he came back without a head. Even though he lost it in the past, he got it back in the future.

Obligatory trivia, the Frenchman at the poker table is the same actor as Gul Dukat from DS9.

Oh Cassie, you are going to love this!!!!!!!! No spoilers from me but man do I want to discuss this with somebody. I will leave you with a bit of wisdom from one Mark Twain - "Always obey your parents... when they are present." Enjoy.

This is my favorite episode because it spans our present time. Data's part and the watch are there right now.

It's also kinda weird that Guinan is called "Madam Guinan" (at 10:07) while Q was saying to her in the episode Q-Who, "You are called Guinan now?"

"The name is Clemens. Sam Clemens" "Oh, I thought he was Mark Twain for a second."

"If you try to employ logic to temporal mechanics, you'll just drive yourself crazy - or, at least give yourself one massive headache." - Captain Katherine Janeway, commanding Federation starship Voyager.

49er is a reference to gold prospectors and the California gold rush of 1849. Some made it big and others like the one Data met didn't do so well.

You cracked me up SO much with this ... Reporter: Will this a sequel to 'Connecticut Yankee', Mr. Twain? You: Gasp! Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): It's Clemens, boy! Sam Clemens!! You: Oh. I that was Mark Twain for a second. ADORABLE!!!

Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Twain, is the father of actress Melora Hardin, who played Jan Levinson on "The Office." As he has said, thankfully she looks nothing like him!

The thing that'll bake your noodle, considering you've seen The Guardian of Forever, is that the Enterprise's timeline exists (in part) because all the people the aliens killed weren't influential on the future. Things apparently turned out exactly as they were supposed to.

Samuel Clemons wrote using the name Mark Twain with was a term for testing the deepness of the water on the rivers....

The main guy in the poker game (Frederick La Rouque) was played by Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat).

"Mark Twain?!? I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" I'm dying!😂🤣😂

This is story of why Ginan later says that she likes bald men. A later show forgets that this is the story of them meeting for the first time and not later. As for the timeline 😁 it's all about the POV.

Cassie is so cute 🥰 and adorable. It’s such a shining light

Okay. Time travel, at least in tv and movies, can be explained by how the writers deal with paradoxes. A paradox is a contradiction in reality. Basically, something happens that can't happen. Like going back in time and killing your younger self or preventing yourself from time travelling in the first place. This episode is basically just like Terminator. John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to keep a terminator from killing his mother Sarah Connor. Kyle Reese ends up impregnating Sarah and John, his future commander is born. John grows up to be the Resistance leader and sends Reese back in time again creating a loop. This is what is known as a closed loop timeline. Everything that happens will happen and must happen the way it did before or the events that will happen won't happen. There are 2 other types of time travel but I don't want to confuse you further. 🙂

Twain was a busy body and a swindler at some times. He was quite the character. I have always enjoyed these episodes. Great reactions Cassie!

It must be the Canadian education. I thought everyone knew that Mark Twain was a pen name and his real name was Samuel Clemons. "Nom de plume". Stephan King used to write under the name Richard Bachman. There are tons of actors and singers with stage names. Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan...

Hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

Cassie's comment when Mark Twain was discovered to be eavesdropping.... "Well, I suppose we'll have to kill him." 😲 Wow! That was brutally cold.... Cassie is no longer the innocent soul that first appeared three years ago. I wonder are those John Wick movies starting influencing her subconscious 🤔

6:41 A forty-niner is a reference to a "Miner forty-niner" he was a miner in 1849 during the California Gold Rush that ran from 1848 - 1855 who is now down on his luck.

I always tear up when Troy explains the future to Twain 😭🖤🖖

"Mark Twain?! I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" She really is one of us ❤️

Sam Clemens IS Mark Twain. Mark Twain was his Pen Name. Data's little red cap friend is Jack London, the great adventure author, famous for novels like White Fang.

"I thought it was Mark Twain for a second" That one hurt, right in my brain hole.

When the crew of Voyager are stuck in the 1990's, Data's head is still in the cave, they could have left a message to be revealed to Data after they left.

A noted expert on time travel once said: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff." According to the Doctor, time can be as elastic as space, and we know that space can be stretched and pulled and have waves. Time travel would require exotic energy or matter or more energy from normal matter than the universe can provide. But it is possible.

I don't know if this is one of the more popular episodes or not but I've got a real soft spot for it and have since I saw it when it first aired on TV.

I love this two parter because it is more of a "fun" story - and while not one of the best stories of TNG, I still love it to this day. Sometimes we need the "fun" aspects of Star Trek and this one really does it well.

Great choice for the 4th of July!

I've seen this TNG episode a million times, but I just had a revelation. Twain's watch is stuck in a temporal loop forever b/c he leaves it in the cave, but from the perspective of the watch it is continuing to travel forward in time, i.e. it continues to age. Eventually the materials in the watch will break down, which will BREAK the causal loop! What happens then? The watch might not matter to the plot so much, but the fact that the loop will not be perfect forever is shattering my perception of this episode.

There was another famous writer in these episodes. Jack London was the bellboy helping Data.

Here's something for you. In the season 3 episode 'Booby Trap', there is what at the time seemed to be a throwaway line by Guinan, where she admits she's attracted to bald men because, in her words, "a bald man was kind to me once, looked after me when I was hurting."