@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right Well, you say that, but I watched him do this nearly thirty years ago, before it was even the 21st Century. So I assume he was able to invent time travel?
"Our captors have placed us here and have devised obstacles for us we CAN'T overcome. They give us jello jigglers which Essok CAN'T eat. They give us a sniveling collaborator - which Essok CAN eat! They give us a door - which Essok CAN eat THROUGH!"
@@xGoodOldSmurfehx If I recall it quickly went to commercial break and by the time it came back Picard was back on the Enterprise doing his non verbal communication thing.
@Ryan Hughes, I think, especially given bits on DS9, a few choose to wear wigs. Enough that it doesn't phase Picard. But real world, this is the first female Bolian (or at least imitator of one) seen, so the production team probably hadn't quite settled on Bolian women also being bald. Also in earlier TNG, I might be wrong, but they were a much more muted greyish blue than later appearances. That Bolian captain in Conspiracy being a good example, although admittedly in slightly weird lighting. Now, the inconsistencies in not just appearance but also fundamental depiction of the Trill between TNG and DS9, _that's_ a real headache. Also I'm really curious where Romulan forehead ridges came from.
pixel girl expanded universe content about the trills explain that they caught the Klingon augment virus form season 4 of Star Trek Enterprise or at least a few hundred of them did
pixel girl Maybe male Bolians shave their heads? As a custom, out of tradition, whatever? After all, Mr Mott knows what hair is...☺ (Please note my bald emoji...)
The Earl Grey fuels Picard. If he hadn't been drinking any, he would be in that laboratory thinking, "...I'm the only one in here that doesn't have any hair."
Adrianos S. Bougas Good grief, are you pretending to understand Star Trek without having seen a *SINGLE* episode?... Or did you somehow watch them while remaining entirely clueless about them? (Honestly, I’m not sure which would be worse!)
I remember seeing the add for TNG with the weird cast and a dude with a plastic visor and a bald captain and thought, this isnt going to fly! From then on this was the best of the franchise and every week we all looked forward to the next story and very few out of 181 episodes sucked. Great actor chemistry and quality production with feeling and soul. If the info is so secret and the cadet wouldnt know, how would aliens know it unless they tapped memories which makes them way more dangerous than the Kingons, Romulans, even the Borg maybe?
"Look at the four of us. We _do_ have something in common: we all react differently to authority." 🤔 That's... kind of an... _awkward_ thing to make something in common. "What we all have in common is that, on at least _this_ point, we are all different."
It could even be considered only a strong abductive case he's making. Still a possibility the cadet could have that knowledge if there was a need to know for the particular position she's training for. Picard made a decision on the most likely conclusion.
@@MetalSlugzMaster I'd imagine a first year cadet, hich the aliens are pretening to be, wouldnt yet be getting specialised training like that though. First year would probably be the basics that every officer of any position needs.
Picard: It took me a while to figure it out, but just now as we were all fighting and yelling at each other and each one of us demanding we should go to the Bad Place, I thought to myself, "Man, this is torture. " And then it hit me. They're never gonna call a train to take us to the Bad Place. The can't, because we're already here. This is the Bad Place! Cadet Haro: *maniacal giggle*
has anyone noticed that the object that beamed picard off the enterprise earlier in the episode looks exactly like the monolith from "2001"? i seriously doubt that this could be a coincidence. leading to quite a critical interpretation of the final chapter of "2001": abduction and experiment.
Since most of the people working on TNG were SF fans even before that it would be more unlikely than not that they had not seen 2001. In this they certainly wanted to give hommage to that great story.
My only question is how far was this expirnent going to go on for like what was the next expected step after literally hitting a wall had picard not figured out what was going on.
How to write a Star Trek episode when you're out of ideas. 1. Consider some aspect of humanity that you'd like to explore. How we react to death, how we react under stress, how we react to authority, how we make moral decisions, etc... 2. Come up with some powerful alien entity or entities who, despite being advanced and living in a galaxy full of humanoid aliens with similar psychology, still find these concepts mysterious 3. Have them fuck around with the crew until the captain realises what's happening. 4. Optional: Have the captain threaten to blow up the ship because they'd rather die along with the entire crew than subject themselves to these experiments. 5. Never mention these aliens ever again in any future episodes. Seriously, I feel like we've seen this exact same plot in TOS, TNG (twice, at least), and Voyager.
Kirk: "She's spurned my advances, therefore she's an enemy" Picard: "Logic logic diplomacy logic THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS" Sisko: "She had dumps like a truck, thighs like what? All night long LET ME SEE THAT THOOOONG" Janeway: "I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LIVES OF 148 CREW MEMBERS ABOARD THIS SHIP, 144 OF WHICH WE NEVER SEE! But sometimes.....I have to get a little rough"
there's also the fact that Bolinas can't crossbreed with other species (their bodily fluids are caustic to non bolians) and naturally don't have hair regardless of gender so her entire bioframe is impossible
PFffffsst!... Sisko would have done what he wanted and if the prophets showed up to reprimand him he'd tell them to know their role, just like he did Q when he decked him.
AH yeah. Picard's not in a laboratory maze, he's in Skeletor's prison! :) Stuck with three other prisoners who got on Skeletor's bad side, including an interdimensional infiltrator to the Academy. :)
@@aarongreenfield9038 It has nothing to do with the character's age, that's a lazy hand waving of the Picard writers, it's a matter of bad writing and thinking the audience only wants action and special effects.
Has everything to do with his age. It's 100% in line with a Captain/Admiral who has seen all that he has seen, and as that syndrome I don't feel like looking up.
He's still the same Picard. He just had a different problem to solve. That's the great thing about him. He's not a 1-dimensional captain. He can do diplomacy. He can do archaeology. He can CERTAINLY do war (as evidenced by the movies). And he can do logic. Now he's out saving souls.
@@aarongreenfield9038 I believe Shatner is older than Stewart and he's done better pictures than Star Trek Picard. The thing is Stewart doesn't care about the Picard character at all. He just cares about the dollars and cents, well pounds, that go into his bank account and it shows.
That's not a deduction. He used inductive reasoning. The Sherlock Holmes character used the word "deduction" wrong this way, and it seems to have stuck in the larger society.
The Klingon would maybe rip out the other ones hearts (or other bodyparts) but Esoqq would be the only one capable of devouring his enemies whole I think.
Basically this scenario is repeated in that DS9 episode where they get locked in a forcefield with one of the Vorta, not realising that they're the ones commanding the Jem'Hadar, and that the Vorta has been watching them the whole time.
I noticed that too. I'd call it the prototype DS9 uniform, the shoulders aren't quite the same and it doesn't have the high collar. A closer version would show up in the Wesley episode "The First Duty"
I just want to say thank you so many of these clips the video uploader is too fucking lazy to actually put the season and episode number on the video or in the description so i appreciate that you actually bothered to do so
I got a poster of the mean alien from Fangoria magazine when I was a boy. I pinned it to my stepdathers dart-board and filled his face with holes. Now that I'm a grown man I'm in the same camp as him. Ironic.
