TNG Season 3 Episodes

[00:00:03] Discovery. Going throttle up ten. [00:00:12] 987-65-4321 hello out there, fellow Trek fans. Fans, and welcome to another episode of the Star Trek Warp top ten podcast, what's happening. I'm your host Phil Rizzo, going solo today, doing another next gen season pod. You know, Brian will be back, you know, next episode with you. But for now, it's just me. It's just me. We're going to talk about next gen. We're going to talk about next gen season three. We're going to break down my top ten episodes of season three, next generation. Lot to talk about there. [00:00:57] But before we get into it, I just want to break out a little housekeeping from last pod. The last pod. Brian and I broke down the top ten animated series episodes. So not much. Not much housekeeping, in my humble opinion. But I did mention during the episode one of our planets is missing, I did mention that I was impressed that the phenomenon was 800 km in diameter. I meant 800,000 km in diameter. Now, I think, you know, everybody knew what I meant. Did I need to bring this up? Probably not. But hey, that's what I do. I can't live with myself unless I went ahead and. And brought that up. I did. I did know that 800 km is not as big as 800,000. So there you go. [00:01:42] Yeah. So I got a fun season to talk about today. You know, as I've mentioned multiple times, you know, myself, I grew up on next gen seasons one and two. You know, I was ready to rock with my father's vhs tapes. He had seasons one and two pretty much taped pretty much every episode. So I lived off those for, you know, for a good year before I started watching some. Some episodes on my own. So the first real week to week season that I ever watched of Star Trek was next gen season three. [00:02:10] Big season for not just next Gen, but Star Trek in general. For me, season three is where next Gen took it to the next level. [00:02:19] Which isn't to say that the first two seasons, you know, weren't that good. You know, I just think three is just clearly better. [00:02:27] Definitely a step up from. From season one and most likely a step up from season two. Season two had some bangers, but, you know, season three really, really elevated Star Trek to kind of a maturity. And I don't mean maturity in storytelling or maturity in. Even in production value, because, you know, even for what seasons one and two were, the production value was still pretty good for 1980. 719 88. But season three, when I say maturity, I feel like they came into their own you know, they weren't following the original series template anymore. And I know that they kind of stopped doing that at the end of season one and towards, you know, season two. But something about the first two seasons feels like it's stuck in a different time. Feels like it's stuck in a different era. If that era is the eighties, which it pretty much is, then, you know, so be it. But season three, you know, the lighting was different, it was a little bit brighter. The uniforms changed, you know, instead of that onesie pajama outfit that they all wore, you know, they got an upgrade with the uniforms. It was a two piece, looked a little more. A little more adult, a little more professional, a little more military. I like that. I was never a fan of the one pieces, the jumpsuits. I don't know where futurists thought our fashion was going because you see that a lot. You see a lot of these onesies in a lot of these futuristic tv shows, movies. But not a fan. Not a fan. I thought it looked a little goofy. And like I said, folks, I love seasons one and two. It's what got me into Star Trek. So we ain't dissing seasons one and two, but we're talking about season three. And I think it's a big step up. [00:03:57] I mean, we all know that season one, we don't all know. I shouldn't say that, but, you know, season three, it culminates with one of the greatest cliffhangers of all time in tv history, in my opinion. Certainly one of the best in Star Trek, if not the best, you know, talking about the best of both worlds, of course. So that season, you know, culminating in that episode alone would set it apart from the absolute, you know, non existent cliffhanger in season two. And, you know, the decent cliffhanger in season one. But, you know, it wasn't necessarily a cliffhanger, more like an ominous final episode, I would say. So season three, as far as what I've talked about so far in season three, I know I've talked about a lot of these episodes before, talked about a lot of the guest stars. I've talked about a lot of the characters. Um, you know, but for me, season three, you know, it has that, that great streak of, in my opinion, of just, just, you know, just solid episodes. I think it was like 15 episodes straight. And then the 20, you know, 24, 25, 26, you know, episode, season, that's pretty impressive when you can put together a chunk of episodes. You put together, you know, five episodes in a row that are really good that's impressive, but I feel like they did 15. I think that was a good job. In season three. I don't know if there were any creative switch outs going from season two to three behind the camera. I'm not as well versed as I am in front of the camera, you know, despite having, you know, dabbled a little bit, you know, with filmmaking behind the camera. But as far as next gen, you know, I didn't do my research as far as what writers maybe came on board in season three that changed the game or, you know, if they started using, you know, the directors that they ended up using the rest of the series don't know. I just know what I'm seeing on screen and what I'm seeing on screen is just better quality writing, you know, better production value and, I mean, my opinion, better stories. Part of that comes from these actors being a part of these characters for two seasons. You know, they're settling into their, their characters really, really well. [00:05:50] You know, by the end of season two, we know who these characters are. I mean, by the end of season one, we kind of do. But I think, you know, they're more and more fleshed out as we go along. And so by season three, they just hit the ground running, you know, again, seasons three, four and five for me, or next Gen's bread and butter again, season six and seven are pretty good. Seasons one or two are pretty good. Six is probably the best out of those four that I just mentioned. But really, three, four and five are really, really, really when they hit their stride, it's a fun time. It was a fun time to watch tv. You know, this is 1990. I'm a freshman in high school. I'm sorry, I'm a. Yeah, freshman, sophomore in high school. [00:06:25] You know, just getting into this for the first time, starting to watch it with my father week by week, you know, that was pretty special for me. And I'm just, I'm just digging when this, this season hit, I'm just digging it. I'm just like, wow, this is, this is great that this is kind of what I was waiting for the first two seasons to be, even though I was quite comfortable with the first two seasons, as I mentioned. But I was going to say this season's better. You know, we get back Beverly Crusher. Gates McFadden comes back as doctor Crusher. She was pretty much fired after the first season. They went a different direction. We had doctor Pulaski, you know, I say not a fan favorite, but who the hell knows? As far as the consensus that I feel like I gleaned from back then. The fans weren't a big, big, big into Pulaski, but I didn't mind her. But I don't think I realized how much I missed crusher until she came back. It was great having that character dynamic for Picard, for Patrick Stewart. You know, there was always that will they, won't they, that love interest. That was always fun to watch. So Crusher coming back was a big deal. I think Wesley steps it up a little bit. I know a lot of fans aren't crazy about Wesley. We've talked about that. I'm baffled by that. Maybe because I was young when I watched the show for the first time. I was about Wesley's age, maybe a tad older when the show first started. So, hey, maybe, maybe identified with him a little bit more than most people do, than most fans did. You know, I imagine we had a lot of original series fans, grew up in the sixties or even the seventies, watching the show, watching reruns, watching the movies, and then here they are, 35 years old, and they're having the same reaction to Wesley as I had to. Jar jar Binks. Possible. Entirely possible. [00:08:03] You know, I. I was fine with the ewoks, but not fine with jar jar. And people have told me how that's hypocritical, probably is, but it's just a function of me being in third grade and me being, you know, 2026 years old or whatever I was when, you know, Phantom Menace came out. So I had never had a problem with Wesley, and I always liked Will Wheaton. I liked the actor. I love him to this day. He's just. He's just, you know, a Trek, trek dude through and through. He just seems like he's happy to be. To be around, you know, I know he's gone through some personal stuff. Keep that in mind when I'm watching these episodes now. You know, it's a little. Little harder to think about, you know, because, um, you're in this fantasy world, and this is the future, and everything's fine, but, you know, this kid was kind of abused, you know, by his parents. So, you know, I know that's out there, and I'm not going to. And I'm not going to talk about what I don't know about, but I do know he's. He's outspoken about it, so I got no problem with Wesley. I think Wesley steps it up in this. In this season. I think a lot of the characters do. You know, Jordi was in engineering by season two, but I think he also comes into his own from an engineering standpoint in season three. Lots happening in season three. I think Star Trek's, I should say next gen, grows up a little bit. And again, not in immature way, but just in kind of taking that next step. That next step to really get where. Where we. Where we end up with next gen. Amazing show. All right, so listen, I got to do it. I know, I know I don't always do this, but I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and. Pirate sketch, best of both worlds, part one. Look, I've talked about this episode ad nauseam. And yes, there are some episodes on this list and I'm gonna talk about again, even though I have talked about them ad nauseam as well. But I mean, the best of both worlds is, like I just said, is arguably one of the best cliffhangers of all time in tv history. Not putting it in there. It's a guaranteed one, in my opinion. I mean, in all honesty, if I'm looking at my list, maybe my number one could have beaten that number one, but I'm not going to. I want to remove it from the equation. That's just kind of how I roll. I apologize. If you wanted to hear me talk a little more about best of both worlds, part one. I'm sure it'll happen again, so don't worry. So that's going to be a parrot sketch there. Bomber likes that. Troy doesn't. Sorry, Troy. And honorable mention, going to throw one out there, the first episode of the season. So evolution, good, honorable mention. Solid, solid episode. One of those comfort food episodes that I mentioned. Kind of like the wounded in season four. [00:10:21] Just one of the ones I threw on. Now, is it because it's the first episode of season three and the completest in me is always like, alright, let's just. Just throw on a season, but start at the beginning. We'll watch the whole season. I start that a lot, never finish it. But a lot of times I would pop in the vhs of evolution just to check that out. [00:10:38] Especially when I got the ones from Columbia House, you know, the fancy, you know, VHS tapes that cost unbelievable amount of money considering what we pay now for streaming. [00:10:49] Those cassettes were like. It was like $15 per episode. I mean, that's freaking insane. But there I was at suncoast video buying them every freaking week. So that's me. Gotta be me. Evolution, honorable mention, solid episode. Love the guest star on that. I can't think of his name. He played Doctor Paul Stubbs. He pops up in a lot of stuff. I like that character actor. I should have remembered his name, but it's an honorable mention. So what are you gonna do? [00:11:13] All right, hey, listen, check us out on TikTok. Check us out on instagram. St Warp 10. At St Warp 10. Give us an email. Shout out, stwarp one zeromail.com. that's s t warp one zeromail.com. let us know what's going on out there. Shoot a list over to us. We'd love to read it. All right, let's get right to it. Let's break down the top ten episodes of next generation, season three, one of the best seasons for Star Trek for sure, ever. Matter of fact, I believe it was in my top ten Star Trek seasons list. Here we go. Number ten, the offspring. The offspring. It's an 8.5 on IMDb. Let's talk about it. After returning to the Enterprise from a cybernetics conference, data creates his own child, much to the chagrin of his captain and without regards to the ramifications to Starfleet. Interesting episode. [00:12:07] You know, this is kind of cool. This has been done before, for sure, but it was great to see it on next gen. For the first time, Data wants to see if he can create an offspring, if he can create a being like himself, you know, for some comfort, for some hangout, you know, I mean, data's got friends, but I must. It must be lonely. You know, I know that's a quoted word. I know that's a word that'll be in quotations regarding an Android, but, you know, Data's lonely. There's no other, no other one like his kind. There's no other being in the universe like him other than his friggin evil brother. Now, we all know there's another Android out there somewhere, but we won't discover that. Told nemesis. So we're not going to talk about that. Now, before we talk about that, we're going to talk about this. Yeah, I said that. Leaving it in the offspring, man, the actress who plays Lol, perfect. I thought she played the role really well. She plays an Android, but she has that great balance of, like, you know, you know, stoicism, you know, being an Android, but also a little bit of vulnerability there. I like that. [00:13:07] You know, Data really shines in this episode, of course, advocating for why he tried to make a child, advocating, you know, for her to stay with him even though Starfleet tries to step in and take her away. Now, look, I mean, and they referenced this in the episode, and this might be one of the reasons why it's number ten and not any higher is because it's got that emotionality. But I mean, we just did this in season two, measure of a man, right? We just established that androidsen, at least data is sentient, has the right to choose and is not property. And then, you know, not, I don't know, ten episodes later in the following season, we're fighting over it again. So, you know, it feels like it was rehashed a little bit there. But I do like the character arc of the admiral. Another good character actor. Dammit, I wish I knew his name. I'm sorry. You know, he comes on board, he's like, nah, we're taking every shit out of luck. Picard's like, well, nope, I gotta stand up for my officer. And then when it comes down to it, he steps up, helps data, when unfortunately, Lal starts malfunctioning. [00:14:07] Very, very emotional scene, which I've talked about. I believe this was in my top ten tearjerker episodes. I mean, it's just a great moment when he comes out and he's. And he's describing how fast data was trying to keep up, you know, with the connections being lost. He was trying to, trying to reroute or whatever the hell he was doing, you know, Android speak. But, you know, his hands were moving so fast he couldn't even see them. I mean, that's, you know, crazy great episode. Touching moment between Data and Lol at the end. [00:14:33] You know, Picard was great in this episode. Troy was great in this episode. Marina Sirtis and Patrick Stewart, really good job. Solid emotional episode. Cool Sci-Fi premise, but yeah, offspring, good episode. Solid episode. Not quite, you know, not quite great in my opinion. But number ten. All right, number nine. Number nine. Tin Mandev. Tin man. Another fun episode, obviously fel. Cause it's on your top ten list. [00:15:00] 7.2 on IMDb. Let's talk about it. The Enterprise is ordered to bring an infamous visitor on board to assist in reaching out to a mysterious alien being. Meanwhile, the Romulans want the alien for their own purposes. All right. And FYI, I did clean up these episode descriptions a little bit. Clean up. Not to disparage whoever put them in there, but I, you know, I wanted to make them a little clearer. Just in case anybody out there is not remembering the episode, I want to kind of make them remember it. They can get in lockstep with us. So, Tin man, great episode, you know, and I mean that, I think this is, this is a good step up from the offspring. You know, when I was putting this list together. Yes, evolution was an honorable mention and there are a ton of, like, solid episodes, but I think there's like, maybe seven or eight great ones. Maybe Tim Mann's not quite great, but it's got some great things going on. So, you know, Tam Elbron comes on board, um, you know, and I'll think of the name. I'll think of it, the actor's name before I get done talking about this specific episode. But I love him on the west wing. He was great on Buffy, season three. Played the. He played the principal. I'm sorry, no, he played the mayor. He played the mayor. Armin Shimmerman played the principal. Of course, Quark himself played the principal on Buffy. And Harry Graynor. I just thought of his name. Harry Graynor played the mayor. He was the big bad in season three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Really, really great job. So he's great in this. You know, he plays a betazoid who can shut out of, you know, all the voices in his head. He, you know, there's no filter for him. You know, Troy can sort of, you know, compartmentalize and cut it out and not just go berserk like she did, you know, in the survivors episode, which may or may not be on this top ten, also from season three. I remember when the music box was playing in her head and she was going crazy. That always bugged me. That must have been torture. Anyway, he can't shut him out. Tam Melbourne, played by Harry Grayner. So he comes on board begrudgingly to help make contact with this alien being that is mysterious, but seems to have a lot of power. So much so that the Romulans are trying to get to the alien being first to use him or it or whatever as a. As a weapon, as the Romulans are. Want to do those pesky Romulans, let me tell you. So. So obviously the Enterprise wants to get there first at all costs. Now, Tamil Brun's got a history, so that's kind of cool. He's bringing that with him. You know, he supposedly caused this disaster which got some Starfleet officers killed, one of which was Riker's friends. So Riker doesn't want a piece of him. Half the crew wants to ignore him. But, you know, Picard's mature enough to handle that and data is pretty partial enough to be like, yeah, whatever. We could talk. We can hang out. The dynamic between data and Tam was really good in this episode. The dynamic between, you know, Councilor Troy and Tam was really great. You know, he is a former patient of hers, so, you know, she's well versed in what's going on in his head. So, yeah, like I said, just great acting job, great Sci-Fi story, really cool. When he finally gets onto Gumtu, the alien, and, you know, they just kind of sail off into the galaxy together. Just this symbiotic, this perfect symbiotic relationship comes to fruition right in front of everybody. So really cool. Really cool episode. Tin man. What else can I say? And, hey, folks, listen, if I forget, you know, a major part of this episode that you're like, how did you not mention that? Shout it out, man. Let us know. Hey, Phil, you know, what about. What about this in Tin Men? You really missed that. That whole angle on that episode. That's why I love it so much. Would love to hear that. Would love to hear it. That's my number nine. Let's move on, folks. So, number eight, allegiance. [00:18:34] Another solid app from season three. Allegiance. This is definitely above average for me, as is Tin man. So allegiance 7.4 on IMDb. Picard is kidnapped and held alongside three other captives. Meanwhile, back in the enterprise, an imposter has replaced the captain. I know what some of you were thinking. Wait, Phil, this episode has got a major flaw in it. I agree. I agree 100%. It's still number seven. Here's why. [00:19:04] Two separate episodes, really two separate things going on. I love the a and B story. Yes, they're part of the same story, of course, but it seems like the two. Two separate episodes. So you got the one with this mystery where Picard's in this room, locked in this room with these other prisoners. What the hell's going on? Where are the captives? What's behind that door? What was the pain that the Miserian felt? A lot of cool stuff going on there. A really great dynamic. You know, I love the way they break it down at the end of the episode that they really set it up where you have the pacifist and the leader and the, you know, the follower who's going to do whatever the leader says, and then you have this savage, this, I want to say, norse skin, who comes in and just. He's not a norse skin, but whatever, I'll think of what he was. So he comes in and he's just, you know, he's gotta eat. So there's a ticking clock. Cool Sci-Fi premise. I love that. Very twilight zone, right? They're all just trapped in a single room, right? It's almost like they're saving money. Budget wise, but they're really not. I don't think so anyway, not in this episode. And then you cut back to the Enterprise and this Picard imposter is there, right? This guy. Now, here's where the flaw comes in this episode. If this Picard imposter, you know, wanted to just, you know, fool the rest of the ship in thinking he was the captain, why push, you know, this weird, you know, course correction. Why go singing in ten forward? If they knew just the smallest bit about Picard, they wouldn't be doing any of that stuff. Then again, we wouldn't have an episode if it wasn't for Riker and Troy and data trying to figure out what's up with this captain. This guy's. Picard's acting weird. What's going on? He's singing intent forward. He's taking us. He's ignoring Starfleet orders, taking us on these weird courses, you know, changing the mission so he doesn't do that. We don't have an episode. So I get it. But I think that could have been written a little better. Am I missing something? I don't know. Seems like a bit of a flaw in the episode, but it does not stop from me having fun watching him sing and forward and the whole crew just being like, who the fuck is this guy? Right? So made the episode fun. Like I said, that combined with the Twilight Zone, you know, parallel storyline works for me. Really good episode. [00:21:09] I can't think of that. The aliens name. I know. The Miserian. [00:21:13] Yeah, the cadet. And then you can like, was it cho gosh or something? Charnoff. I don't know. Sounded vaguely Klingon. Who knows? Hey, if you know the name out there, you're better than me. God bless. All right, here we go. Number seven, booby trap. Solid app love. Booby trap. Let's get into why. 7.4 on IMDb. The Enterprise triggers a deadly booby trap left over from an ancient war. That's one of the reasons. Simple, right? Boom. Booby trap. They're trapped. They gotta get out of it. That's it. That's the whole episode. Yeah. There's a little bit of nostalgia for, you know, in universe. Nostalgia when they go over there and, you know, they're in there, they're. They're basking and reveling in this, you know, thousand year old war where these relics are still around. And Picard's, you know, the archaeological. The archaeologist and historian in him is just fascinated by it. It's a really cool. It's cool thing to see Picard, go on an away team for one. You know, Riker was like, captain. No, no, no, this one's mine. Number one. [00:22:13] Interesting, you know, a little tangent about away teams and captains. And so this was. This was just the next gen thing. [00:22:20] Only a next gen thing. I don't know why they decided to make that change from tos. So, the original series, we all know Kirk went down to every freaking planet. President, vice president, and the fucking speaker of the House went down every time. So something happens, guess what? You know, it's the fucking. [00:22:36] What's next? The Senate pro tem, that's next. Who knows? Next in the line of secession, right? So you got the captain, the first officer, and the chief medical officer going down there. Enterprise is fucked if they get killed, right? But and guess what? They don't get killed. The next gen comes along and like, no, no, no. It's against Starfleet regulations for the captain to go down. It's the first officer's job to talk the captain out of it. The first officer leads the UA team. I'm like, all right, that's what I grew up on. I get used to that. Right? Then, of course, I see deep space nine, Voyager, Enterprise, and no one's following that. So that's just the next gen thing. You know, if you could think. I'm sure. Of course, there's instances. Of course there's exceptions, you know, where jameway stays on board or where, you know, Kira leads the away mission on DS nine or something. But for the most part, those captains were. They were. They were all over those planets. All over those, you know, Starbases. Not starbases. Why wouldn't they be able to go on the starbase? They're all over the planets. They're all over the settlements, the colonies, these weird alien ships. Yeah. Being the captain over, we don't need him, her, or them. So screw it. That's a next gen thing. Anyway, it's fun to see Picard go over there. Fun to see Picard, you know, getting so excited about something, right? And then, you know, as we all know, smash cut to the end of the episode. Fun to see Picard get them out of it. Fun to see Picard jump in the helm and, you know, navigate their way out, slingshot around one of those asteroids and get out of the booby trap. Freaking awesome, right? But it's a great mystery what's going on. Why is this shit being drained? [00:24:00] You know, we do have the b story. We do have the b story. [00:24:04] Once again, Geordi's Jordi's love life is in the shitter. You know, first introduction of Doctor Leah Brahms, which is cool. [00:24:14] Like that actress, too. Damn it. I don't know her name offhand. By the way, folks, I knew all these names off the top of my head. 1015 years ago, 20 years ago, they would just flow out. I couldn't say the words fast enough. Now, a lot of them are gone. Getting up there. Getting up there. A lot of them are gone. [00:24:31] So, yeah, great to see Leah Brahms. Her first appearance for one of two, so far, anyway. You never know. [00:24:38] I'm always expecting, you know, for Star Trek legacy to show, Geordi marries her at some point when she gets divorced from the other guy, so he creates that holodeck program. That's kind of fun. They got to get out of it. Another big flaw in this episode. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm finding a lot of flaws in these episodes as I'm. As I'm going along here. But I got to tell you, this is the Enterprise. This is the flagship of the Federation, the NCC 1701 D most, you know, sophisticated computer of all time. Thousand people on board. How many engineers must be on this freaking ship? How many assistant engineers does Geordi have that could be helping him with this problem? Right? I mean, we've seen it in other episodes. We've seen Barkley data jumps down there to help. Worf's even there. Every once in a while, Wesley's down there like crazy, tinkering. Oh, yeah, I'll help you get out of this. This little problem there. But there's a bunch of engineers walking around all the time. Why is there not a think tank going on in engineering? All right, we're trapped. It's clearly got something to do with the ship. It's got something to do with the engines. Let's get everyone on board. Yeah. Wake up. I don't care if you're second shift, third shift. We're trapped in a freaking thousand year old booby trap. We gotta get out of it. Everybody, meet me in engineering. We're gonna have a frickin confab. Like, why do they not do that? No, it's Jordy running around with a. With a hologram, trying to figure this out, because that's the only thing you can think of. Bit of an issue with that. But, hey, doesn't stop me from loving the episode. Like I said, we can poke fun at these things, right? The great Phil Ferrand. Right? I love those nitpickers. Guides that came out in the nineties. The epitome of nitpicking while loving these shows really is so. Yeah, I could tear it down. I could make fun. I could say the writing's bad in this episode, but I love it. Love it all. Okay, never forget. So big flaw there. But what are you gonna do? We gotta have Geordi have a. Have a, you know, lackluster love life and that's what he's got. [00:26:27] Might have been better if he asked somebody else to help him out with that. [00:26:31] That's booby trap. We're moving along, folks. Number six. Now we're getting into it. Now we're getting into the nitty gritty here, at least personally, for me. Sins of the father, number six, Klingon episode. I'm not always down with the Klingon episodes, but damn if this one isn't good. And this one, you know, there's. There's that concurrent storyline going on with Worf. You know, he, you know, starting with the emissary in season two and really going all the way. Really going all the way until, you know, d space nine, season seven. You know, that's really worth Klingon arc, you know, a little bit before that, a little bit after. But really it starts with Kailor coming on the ship in season two of next gen. And that culminates with, spoiler alert, Worf becoming the Klingon. I want to say chancellor at the end of season seven when he kills Gowron. Pretty crazy stuff. So that's a big arc. So we have Worf. Sins of the father, 8.2 on IMDb. A Klingon commander comes aboard the Enterprise for an officer exchange program. The crew is less than happy about their new Klingon supervisor. First of all, great little continuation of the. A very good episode, a season two episode called the matter of Honor. Again, the first of three, a matter of episodes. But we like that one in season two, matter of Honor, where Riker goes on board the Enterprise in this officer exchange program, which apparently is a thing sometimes. And. Yeah, so in this episode, we see the flip side of that where Commander Kern from the Klingon Empire comes on board the Enterprise to participate in this little officer exchange program. Tony Todd. I'm not forgetting his name, folks. Tony Todd, the great Tony Todd playing Kern. Spoiler alert, Bomber, don't listen to this for 10 seconds. Worf's brother. We know it's Worf's brother, so. Yeah. Oh, and incidentally, folks, Bomber is on. He's watching his third episode of Next Gen. And we decided we're going to make a little, we're going to put out a little supplemental episode. So for each episode Bomber watches, we're going to jump on and talk about it for like ten minutes. So be on the lookout for that. That's probably coming out next. We're going to release. [00:28:39] He watched encounter at Farport and he watched the naked now. So we're going to jump out with those two episodes soon. Some quick little supplemental episodes, maybe to just maybe to just get a little more content out there for you guys. Some quick episodes and you get to follow bomber Brian Parks along on his next gen Star Trek journey. Wouldn't that be great? Anyway, Bomber, if you heard that spoiler, I apologize. But Kern is Worf's brother comes on board. The real reason he's on board is not for this officer exchange program because, duh, he is on board to, you know, rally Worf so they can get their family's honor back, get their name back. So they make a challenge, you know, Dura. So all this stuff going on, a lot of Klingon intrigue, a lot of cool stuff. [00:29:22] You know this, unless my brain is completely wonky, this is the episode where Worf X Picard to be his chadich, which is legendary as well. You know, Patrick Stewart, John Luke Picard is legendary as the Shadich. I have to imagine he'd be top ten. Shadich is in a Klingon podcast. But, you know, speculation is what it is. [00:29:42] One of the best lines of all time in next generation. [00:29:46] You know, they're, they're threatening Picard and saying, basically they're saying Starch Fleet officers are wusses and they can't fight. And Picard simply says, you may test that assumption at your convenience. Love it. Love it. Badass. It's about as badass as Picard gets. But let's face it, folks, that's badass. So send to the father. Really good episode. Like I said, not a giant fan of the Klingon stuff, I should say. Not always. I've said that before. Not always. It's got to be a really good episode like this one. This is number six. If I was a little more into the Klingons, this might be a little higher. If I was an original series fan, maybe I'd be a little more into the Klingons. [00:30:22] You know, I was always curious about. I was always curious what, Phil? Tell us. What were you always curious about? I will tell you. I'll tell you right now. What I was going to ask is do old school next gen. I'm sorry. Do old school Star Trek fans, do the Tos fans, the die hards? Like my father? I don't think I've ever asked him this. He didn't seem to have a problem with. But did old school fans have a problem when they realized Klingons were allies? I was always curious about that. Seems like that would be a giant sort of plot twist, right? [00:30:51] I know we're talking about plotist plot twist along, you know, an entire, like, franchise's, you know, ip content. But I wonder if that that would mess people up now, you know, when the Romulans were kind of friendly with the. With the federation in, you know, D space season six and Picard season one, like, I was cool with it. You know what I mean? Like, I love the Romulans as a villain, but there's always going to be another villain around the corner, right? Maybe not as great as the Klingons or the Romulans or the Borg for that matter. But there's always going to be another villainous. There's always going to be somebody else to be the antagonist. So I didn't have a problem when the Romulans switched sides, albeit temporarily. And I don't think my father had a problem with the Klingons all of a sudden being part of the fried race. Not all of a sudden. I shouldn't say that. There were some pretty cool in universe events that happened to get there, but, yeah, just as a foil. I wonder if you lost something there with the Klingons being friendly and seeing in next gen. Now, if you were one of those people who weren't a fan of that, you must be loving deep space nine seasons four and five when the Klingons briefly became antagonists for the Federation again. But that's another story. Remember that at the end of every. Conan O'Brien. [00:32:05] Conan O'Brien. Remember that at the end of every Conan movie, they'd have that, like, really creepy, like, comic shot of Conan with a beard sitting on the. On the throne that, you know, the words would come on screen and then the last word would be like, but that is another story. [00:32:25] Those movies were freaking awesome, man. The first one was leaps and bounds better than the other ones. But fuck it. I was a kid. I loved Conan the destroyer and to a lesser extent, red sonja. All right, my top ten Conan kills. No, we're not doing that. We are not doing that. We are jumping to number five, the hunted. Now, this is not one of those episodes that you would think would be number five even on a list of only one season, this is one of those episodes that, to most people, is probably okay. Yeah, decent episode. You know, I liked it. Didn't blow me away, but, you know, solid entry, and I get that for me. Another one of those comfy food episodes that I just love to watch over and over and over. 7.5 and IMDb. Investigating a planet. Applying for membership into the Federation. The crew of the Enterprise finds a group of inhabitants who used to be soldiers, but now fight for their very existence. Yep, this is Roga Danar, folks. This is James Cromwell in a guest starring appearance, not playing Roga Danar, but, um. And damn it, that actor is good, too. I think he was on, like, what was he on? Silver spoons or something? Cool eighties actor, cool character actor. He did a phenomenal job in this episode. Love Roga Danar. Who doesn't love Roga Danard? Troy loves him. Data loves him. Picard loves him. We all love Roga. I love that he got referenced in lower decks. That was hilarious because. [00:33:49] Because what's his face. Boimler compared him to con, villain wise. He didn't really, but, you know, Mariner beefed it up like that. Hilarious scene. I think it was the first season episode. No, no, I'm sorry. I'm not sure about that. Fact check me on that one. Anyway, roga Danar. Awesome. So, yeah, another cool Sci-Fi premise. You got these programmed soldiers, right? It's very Kurt Russell, the movie soldier. It's very, you know, I don't know, a million times, right? He programmed these soldiers to do what they got to do, but then they got to deal with the consequences. The war is over. What do they do? Where do they go? What do they do with these feelings, with this hate, this frustration, this anger? And then they're shoved aside, right? They're ostracized by the. By the very society that programmed them. They saved these people, and now these people turn their backs on them. Age old story, right? Doesn't stop it from being told. Well acted, well written. Well, and, you know, presented well. First of all, you have this great cat, mouse in the beginning, you know, now, you know, you watch something now in 2024, and are they going to do more of a job playing that up? Maybe. But this is, you know, this is 1990, you know, television, syndicated television. They do a great job of doing this. The special effects were great. So they're trying to find Roga Danard. He escapes from the penal colony on lunar five, I think, and the enterprise is trying to find him. He eludes him. They find him. He eludes him. They find him. A really great job. Just a fun way to start the episode. It's almost like they're building up this character a la John Wick, this baba yaga. Oh, my God. This great. This guy's gonna unleash him. What is he gonna do? And he's got all this potential. And don't turn your back on him. And don't underestimate him. That's Roga Danar, man. Like, this guy's a tactician. He could fight. He could think really, really cool. He has this. These skills built up. Really. And then when you finally talk to him face to face, comes off as abrasive at first, but then, you know, you realize he's just a dude, man. It's just. A dude is just hurting. He's just suffering. Troy sees it right away, Data, with his objective Android brain. Thank God for those positrons. He's. He's loving it, right? And then Picard, of course, you know, sees. Sees, um. Sees the sympathy, but he can't do anything about it. He's bounded by federation law, right? At least he is now. Um, if he wants to ride a freaking Pegasus, whatever the hell. Damn. Luke's gonna kill me. Luke, what was that, uh. What was that season eight tweet that you, uh, that you had on your list where Picard just completely disregarded the prime directive because he wanted to write a centaur? There was a centaur? [00:36:21] Oh, God, that's hilarious. Anyway, so Picard's bound by the prime directive. James Cromwell. It's great seeing him get his comeuppance at the end. [00:36:29] Really subtle moment at the end where Danar sort of acknowledges what the Enterprise crew did for him. So it's just a fun episode, man. A lot of great human condition type conflicts in this episode, and I think they talked it out really well. It's one of those episodes that has great action and great dialogue. It's a great combination of both. When Roga finally escapes from the cell and he leads the Enterprise on yet another cat and mouse chase. It's really well done. Really well done. Great episode. All right, we are cruising. Number four, deja. Q. [00:37:04] Had to have it on here. 8.5 on IMDb. Of course. Of course. It's an 8.5. It's a goddamn Q episode. [00:37:12] Much to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q continuum and therefore lost his powers. Cool. Just a cool way to bring Q back. Now, when we did our Q episode. I cited this episode as the turning point in the character of Q. This is where Q stopped being a heart stopping menace to becoming sort of comic relief. He's still a menace. He's still annoying. Again, not to me. Of course, not to fans. He's annoying and a menace to the Enterprise crew. Right. But he's not, like, indiscriminately killing anymore. Right. At least not humans. And this is the episode where the Q episode didn't mean, oh, my God, what's this entity gonna do? It meant, oh, cool cues on the Enterprise. It's gonna be some laughs. It's gonna be some cool, you know, flashes in and out. This is the episode where it started. And I believe this is also the episode where he appeared naked and with one of the best cold, open ending lines. Red alert. Very cool. Very cool. [00:38:11] This was a fun episode. This was Q losing his powers, wants to be part of the Enterprise. It's very cool to think about the fact that he still retained the knowledge of a Q, even if he lost his powers. Something I have a problem with. With seven of nine, I gotta say. So when seven of nine, you know, became human, they sort of deborgified her. She still had all the knowledge of all these, you know, thousands of species, which is many, many species. And all this knowledge, and it was. It made total sense. Total sense. The human brain is a great thing. It can keep all that in there. What happened, and I'm not complaining about Picard season three or Picard season one or Picard season two, like, them all, especially season three. But what happened to that brain in seven of nine? Like, they do not utilize her computer like brain in Picard at all. But on Voyager, I was. One of the aspects I loved about her character was that she just retained all this information even after being at Borg. So she's still genius level, even if she's just a regular human now. Same thing with Q. I like that. It's really cool. And it made me sort of pine for, you know, a little more seven of nine and a little more seven of nine on Picard to be a little more, you know, calculating, analytical, cerebral. She was more like. I mean, look, we all know she's pleasing to look at, and we all know she's a badass. So it was a little more of. That was a little more. Let me punch you here. You know, let me flirt with you there. Let me. Let me be a sort of a rebel, a recluse, you know? I love it. I love that seven of nine, too, but lost a little something there. Wish we would have gotten that back. It was great on Voyager to have her. She was such a resource. One of the reasons why I would pick her on my crew, and I only bring that up because Luke and I did that thing. That was really cool. Thing was online. I can't remember where it was. But you get to pick one character from each show and put together a bridge crew. Do that much harder than you think. One character from each show. You could fill in all the. All the roles, but it's just one. So if you pick Picard, you can't have Kirk, Cisco, Janeway, Archer, none of them. If you pick, you know, Spock is your science officer. Guess what? You lose. Data, you lose. You know, whoever. Harry Kim, you lose. You know, Dax, now, no one's ever going to cry losing, you know, no offense, Dax or, you know, Harry Kim for Spock, but you get what I'm saying. It's difficult. Pick a chief medical officer right now. Go. Pick a security officer right now. Go. You got to lose all the rest. You're gonna. You're gonna dump Tuvok for Worf. You gonna. You gonna get rid of Odo because you want Tuvok in there? It's tough calls. Anyway, seven nine was on my bridge crew, so back to Deja, Q. See, right off on a tangent there, folks. Fun episode. Just a fun episode. Love seeing Q two. I think. I think it's the first time we saw another Q, not counting Trelayne in the original series. Okay. If he indeed was a Q, but we see Corbin Burns, and Corbin Burns in as Q two. A lot of fun. A lot of fun. Another fun, you know, actor from. From the eighties. Of course, he's legendary in major league, but, you know, like him. Like him a lot. So, you know, Q loses his powers. A lot of fun moments. The crew does what they do because they're Starfleet and they're moral and they're upright and they're human and they're Betazoid and they're all doing the right thing. And Q gets his powers back, and he's grateful and, yes, what a great moment at the end when he gives Dana that gift. What a gift, you know? Bomber spoiler alert in 54321. Yeah, I think it's heavy enough for a spoiler. He gives data a laugh for the first time. Very cool. Very cool. A lot of fun to watch that. A lot of fun to watch Brent spiner laugh hysterically. We obviously haven't seen that, you know, in the run of the show yet? That might be. [00:41:48] No. We've seen him laugh. He left hysterically again in generations, but really few and far between folks. That's a fun thing to see. Deservedly. 8.5 on IMDb. Well done, people who rate stuff. [00:42:00] Let's do it. Top three. Here we go. These are all, in my opinion, absolute bangers. Cream of the crust and cream of the crust. Let's say cream of the crop. Let's go with that one in season three. Number three, the most toys. I've talked about this episode a lot. 7.6 on IMDb. When transporting dangerous material to the enterprise, data is kidnapped and the crew is led to believe he's dead when the shuttlecraft he was piloting explodes en route. [00:42:28] Very cool. Lot of stuff going on just caused by that premise alone. Well, what else would cause it, Phil? Alright, let's go. Um, a lot of fun. Data's kidnapped. First of all, I'm maybe speaking for everybody, but who doesn't love, especially an episode of episodic television? I don't think you could say that twice. An episode of episodic television where one, all the other characters think one of the other characters died, right? You get to kind of have your cake and eat it, too, when that happens, right? Because you do get that morbid fascination of seeing how other people deal with a death of someone close to them, right? No, I'm not talking about people in your lives. No one wants to see that. But on tv, it's interesting to study it dispassionately and from, you know, take a step back vicariously, if you will, if you're a tool fan, because tool invented the word vicarious. Anyway, seeing everyone react like Data had died was really cool. Really cool to see because it had such a profound effect. And we saw this in measure of a man. We saw this in data lore, we saw this in a couple other episodes. But really seeing the impact that data has on this crew, this robot, this Android with no emotions. [00:43:40] Just a fun aspect of this episode. [00:43:43] Picard, you know, reading that great line of Shakespeare to himself in his reading room, of course, like all captains do, at least all shakespearean actors do, he pulls that off. If I was on camera and I picked up a book and I said, oh, all's well that ends well, I would look like a fucking idiot, let me tell you. But not Patrick Stewart. That's why he's Patrick Stewart. That's why he's Sir Patrick Stewart and I'm shit Phil Rizzo. All right, cool to see that. Cool to see everyone respecting data thinks he's dead. But here's data trapped with this just crazy nut job Kivas Faggio, who just likes to collect things. He's a collector. One of a kind thing. Such a cool aspect, such a cool thing to have. It's a great combination of futuristic and nostalgic sort of items in his little. In his little, you know, room there, right? He's got some rare species. There's only like two of them in the whole universe, and it's this cute little alien creature. But then he's got a freaking Dolly and he's got, you know, a baseball card with the bubblegum scent, you know, preserved, by the way. I love the way he just completely blows off the dolly. I love Salvador Dali. I hate art, but I love Dali. And here's this episode that I'm. And he's like, that dolly just blows off the persistence of memory. Great freaking painting. Love surrealist art. Anyway, so it's fun to see all that happen. And then you have the dynamic between, you know, Faggio and, you know, his worker slash. I mean, his woman slash slave really, you know, data season in, he's able to manipulate her a little bit, you know, really for his own purposes. This was an interesting episode for data. And if you've seen this, you know where I'm going towards the end of this episode with Data just doing some stuff that he never thought he'd kind of do. [00:45:25] So, yeah, so he's manipulating her also for her benefit. But really, he just wants to escape. He knows it's his duty to try to escape. Faggio sort of, you know, plays the game of chess with him, gets him to do what he kind of wants to. But then Data really embarrasses him, upsets him. By the time, you know, this culminates, Data escapes with, I can't remember her name on the show. I'm sorry, Ferris or something. I don't know. But, man, does she die a horrible death. That sucked for her. [00:45:54] And then Data got the phaser, the terrible pain phaser pointed right at Kivas Faggio. And did he pull the trigger, folks? I think he did. I think he did. I think he pulled the trigger. I think Data was going to kill another human being because in his little logic circuit circus there, he figured that was the only way he was going to be able to return to any kind of, you know, to any semblance of what his life was. [00:46:22] You know, it's. It's a really interesting choice for such an early episode in the series. You know, Data pretty much was ready to kill. [00:46:29] I know they left it ambiguous because they could say, no, no, no, he wasn't going to kill him really, but he was fucking gonna kill him. Folks, come on. We all know that I might not have killed him because his performance was so great. I would have been like, you know what, I'll be your slave. Just, just keep, keep crying and laughing and jumping around and doing crazy things because I think it works and I think Saul Rubin Ek really pays, you know, really does a great job in this episode. He's great in anything he's in. I know I've mentioned him before. [00:46:57] Love him. He had a great arc on Frasier. He was just hilarious on there. Who doesn't love him from true romance? Who doesn't love him from, you know, a million other movies is. I love that actor. A lot of fun. I love that he's a category name on the Rewatchables podcast. Great podcast, folks. If you haven't listened, I know I've mentioned this one before too, but they're rewatchable. So just take these great movies from the eighties, nineties, you know, two thousands or even, even modern movies and the ones that we've rewatched over and over and over our entire lives on HBO or on videotape or on dvd or on streaming, and they break it down and they have categories. Most rewatchable scene, you know, this, that and the other. But one of the categories is it was at one point only called the Saul Rubinek overacting award, not because of his performance here, but because of his performance in true romance. I know now they have four actors who are, you know, were part of that or four characters who are part of that category. But it was really cool to see him acknowledged. And true romance was such a great movie. Love that movie. Tarantino written, Tony Scott directed. If you haven't seen that, go see it right now. It's pretty much a cool dialogue, hip dialogue, actiony series of vignettes that all sort of tie together. It's really, really fun movie, true romance. Sal Rubenik back to most toys. Great episode. Great episode for data. Great episode for the show. They finally get data back. [00:48:19] Worf has a great moment in this episode with Troy where Worf is promoted to operations officer and then demoted, by the way. But we're not going to talk about that. He's in the Losers club with Riker on that one. But great moment where Troy rightfully points out, and I love when shows do this, when it's not just to stand alone, they do incorporate what's happened before, something that a lot of shows weren't doing back then. Folks. I'm telling you, nowadays, it's just par for the course that one episode leads to another. And of course, what happens in season one, episode two, is going to affect what happens in season four, episode three, but didn't happen all the time back on these shows. But kudos for Star Trek for remembering that this is the second time Worf was asked to replace a fallen comrade. I think that's how Troy put it. Not forbade him, of course, but I think she said fallen comrade, something like that. [00:49:07] And that would play into his. Into his, you know, his characterization, his psyche, even for a Klingon. Right? [00:49:14] What worst thing, or I should say, as he says, you know, what? More of an honor could it possibly be for a Klingon to replace someone they respected and they admired? But from a human standpoint, that would fuck us up. Right? And I think it messed with Worf a little bit, but I think he had the right attitude about it. Cool moment there. Great episode. The most toys. What else can I say? Nothing. Moving on, number two. [00:49:37] Alright, folks, these two episodes, other than best of both worlds, like I said, are by far the best episodes of the season. [00:49:45] If the most toys is a b, these two are a. These are just leaps and bounds. Better not to say the ones that came before weren't, but I just love these two episodes. Talked about this one many times. The defector 8.4 on IMDb. When a romulan officer defects to the Federation with a warning of an impending invasion, Captain Picard struggles to decide if he is to be believed. Very simple premise. Very old premise. This has happened. Someone's a traitor. It happens again in season four when Ishara Yara comes on board, right? So do you believe them? Do you believe that they're telling the truth? Do you believe they actually share the same values and morals that we do? Do they care about the same things we do? A very simple human conflict sort of question that is asked in this episode, but without the right actor, without James Sloan here, this would not have been pulled off. Okay? This was so well done. The scenes between him and Picard are him and data, I should say Sloan and Stewart or Sloan and Spider. And I hope I'm saying Sloan wrong. I'm right. I hope I'm saying it right. [00:50:53] So well done, Admiral Gerard. Right? Such a cool episode. Such a cool premise. Here's the Romulans, right, this. This crazy mystery. They appear at the end of season one. Of next Gen. And they're still a complete, like. Like mystery game changer, right? We see him a little bit in season two, I think, if I'm remembering correctly. But then all of a sudden, boom, there's a Romulan standing on the bridge, right? And it's like, wow, this is pretty crazy. And he's saying, no, no, believe me, I'm here not as a friend, per se, but I'm here for the betterment of everybody. I don't want to see a war. And, you know, it just plays out like that. It's just about this character and his journey. Like it's, you know, the episode is really focused on him. Like, if you think about it in a lot of ways in this episode, like the Federation, the enterprise is like the antagonist, really. Right. Because, I mean, you know, hindsight's 2020, so I know, you know, that this actor, that this Romulan, I'm sorry. Is telling the truth. And he really does have his peoples and the galaxy's best interests at heart. [00:51:57] So if you know that going in, right? I know we didn't. But second time you watch this episode, it's the Federation who are prejudiced, basically, right? It's the federation who won't give them the benefit of the doubt. Now, we know this guy drops racial slurs in Sickbay towards Klingons. Not fun, you know, so there's a lot of that going on. He clearly has, you know, prejudged Klingons and humans and, you know, a lot of other people. But if you look at it one way, it's. It's interesting. Sort of flip flop there, because he is doing the right thing and he is telling the truth and he does care about his family. He just wants to save lives, starting with his families, of course, like we all would, but the Enterprise is slow to believe him. Rightfully so. But it's interesting that the Enterprise and, you know, the D crew is sort of on the other side of that. [00:52:45] Usually, you know, they can't wait to just trust blindly. Right. Usually the Federation is just like, nope, that's. We believe you, take you at face value. [00:52:52] Federation officers don't lie. Right. Honesty is one of those traits that is known throughout the galaxy that Federation officers have. But it made for great drama. [00:53:04] Love this episode. Love everything about it. [00:53:07] Tragic ending. [00:53:09] Realistic ending, but tragic. The Romulans, man, they're. They're deceitful, baby. They talk about playing chess, you know, that's what. Right? That's what Picard said. Right? And Riker is famous for bringing it up again. You've always said it was a game of chess with the Romulans. It always is. And they always live up to that. I love that. I love that. I love that they always wrote the Romulans in that vein. Well done. Well done, the defector. Love it. All right, let's go number one. Now, look, folks, I'm not bearing the lead. That's why I'm not holding this off for any reason other than I just want to point out that with best of both worlds out of the way, anyone who's like, you know, not die hard, but anybody who knows the season well knows what episode's coming. Okay? I did not. I could have easily parrot sketched this one as well. Okay? I'm talking about yesterday's enterprise. I could have easily parrot sketched this as well, but I don't feel like it is there. Okay? It's not iconic to the point where, like I mentioned before, best of both worlds is in the argument for best cliffhanger of all time tv all time, folks. Okay? It's right up there with who shot Junior? It's right up there with who shot Mister Burns. I mean, it's right up there with all the great cliffhangers. You know, who. You know, Buffy had a bunch of great ones. Breaking Bad had a bunch of great ones. You know, the west wing had a bunch of great ones. Pretty much any drama in the last 20 years has got amazing cliffhangers, right? Any drama you could think of, right? Battlestar Galactica. Freaking. Like I said, the West Wing, the Sopranos, right? Now, the Sopranos didn't have so much cliffhangers as they did have big events happen at the end of their seasons, but nevertheless, one of the greatest, you know, cliffhangers of all time and one of the most, you know, technically advanced episodes of television at the time. So that's parrot sketch. Sorry. This one is it. This is just a freaking amazing premise executed frickin perfectly. And, God, is this one of the all time bangers of all Sci-Fi all time. Certainly of Star Trek all time. Certainly of next gen all time. Yesterday's Enterprise, a well deserved 9.2 on IMDb. The Enterprise c enters the Enterprise D's time and space Continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan know something is wrong. [00:55:23] I mean, come on, there's just so much cool shit going on with this episode. So, first of all, you have that amazing beginning where the Enterprise C comes through the rift the Enterprise C, for anyone who doesn't know, is the Enterprise that preceded Picard's Enterprise. So the enterprise NCC 1701 d was preceded by the NCC 1701 C. Okay? Now, I imagine most of you know that already, but, hey, maybe some of you are joining us for the first time, and, you know, you need a little. Little exposition here. We could do that. We could write in some exposition to act two here of this on this little story. So Enterprise C comes through a rift, and as Starfleet, as I should say, Star Trek rules go, it immediately alters our present, right? So the Enterprise C is from the past, comes through a rift, thereby affecting our present, their future. You follow me? Good. I'm sure. I know you do. I know you do. [00:56:18] So, yeah, so. [00:56:20] And immediately, because the Enterprise C, and this is just brilliant. This is just a brilliant, brilliant job writing this, guys. So, because the enterprise C was in the middle of a battle where they were trying to save a Klingon outpost at Narendra three, because they were yanked away from there, that affected the outcome of what would have happened if they had stayed there and saved the outpost, or at least died defending it. That might have gone a long way to show the Klingons that we had honor and, you know, and leads to peace. But because they were yanked away, we are now at war with the Klingons. Now, if you want to break out a calculator or fucking abacus and you say, that doesn't make sense, doesn't add up. I mean, fine, but on the surface, I think it's freaking phenomenal, and we're going to ride it out. So we're at war with the Klingons, just like that. And this is one of the coolest moments of the episode, is where Guinan. [00:57:13] Guinan's an Elorian. She apparently has a perception that sort of goes beyond what's normally in our space time continuum, right? So she. I'm explaining that wrong, but she has an extrasensory perception. But a real extrasensory perception, like she senses when universes are fucking changed, right? Crazy that a species would even have that. And if they're not a queue, you know what I mean? If they're not versed in the multiverse, I could say that I'm allowed. [00:57:42] But she senses that, you know, talking about Troy, who hated the parrot sketch, I'm gonna redeem myself here with Troy. There's a great movie from the nineties called Run Lola run that me and him, we watched together, we loved it. [00:57:56] There's this great moment. So the movie's about this german girl who, three different times around, sort of the story, her boyfriend dies at the end of each one. Right? So it's about her going through the same things over and over, but things are slightly changing now. I haven't watched it in, like, 25 years, folks, but there's this phenomenal moment in the episode. I'm sorry. In the movie, where the third time around, she's about to just, you know, start running again. It's called run the Laurent. [00:58:25] And she turns around and sees this, like, bank guard or this security guard or something. Again, details are, you know, sketchy, but the gist is they looked at each other and there was a moment that defies explanation, both in writing a screenplay or in the. In universe, but they both somehow knew that they had done this before, even though time does not allow for that. [00:58:46] That's phenomenal shit. I love when that shit happens. It just happened on, um, you know, Marvel. What if, too, like, at the end of season one, when, um. I want to say when Ultron sensed the watcher. Such a fucking cool moment. Creepy. Creepy. [00:59:04] It's sort of like a cousin of breaking the fourth wall in a creepy way. Right? Sort of. I know it's a stretch, folks, but sort of. Right? Sort of stay with me. So when those moments happen are really kind of cool. You can't really explain them. You don't know why. You can't. We're not going to quantify why. Guinan senses something was changed. And is it a story is necessary for the story, 100%. [00:59:24] The whole next gen has changed, if Guinan doesn't sense that. So I understand taking that leap, but I think it's cool enough to leave alone. Can't describe it. Picard says it eloquently enough. You know, apparently her species has some blah, blah, blah. Whatever he says when he's talking to Rachel Garrett, the Enterprise sea captain. So all that to say, that was another great moment in the episode that I personally loved, folks. Shooter McGavin. Come on. Christopher McDonnell. That's all I gotta say. Shooter McGavins in this episode. Love him, love him, love him. Love Christopher McDonald. Always did. I loved him from freaking Greece, too, back in the day, man. He was goose. Was he goose? I think his name is Goose. Anyway, I love all gooses. Anthony Edwards was a great goose too. And I love Grey Goose. Shut the fuck up. All right, moving back. So I love seeing Christopher Donald in this episode. You know, he kind of has a thing with Tasha Yar. Yep, I said Tasha yar. Now, if you're not a die hard fan, you're like, wait a minute. I thought she died in season three. Well, season one. Well, she comes back. She's back. Really cool touch. It's funny how a character who died in the first season had such an impact on the rest of the show. You know what I mean? Like, you kind of never forgot about Tasha Yar, whether it was this episode or whether it was the season four, you know, finale, or whether. Whether it was the season five double two part episode, unification, part one. Like, they kept her coming back. The legacy episode that I. That I referenced before some season four. Wherever I. Her sister comes on the ship. [01:00:48] She died in season one, but they never sort of forgot about her. She kind of stuck around. I'm saying that's surprising because in a lot of shows, that doesn't happen. [01:00:56] The one that comes to mind is angel. The show angel, where Doyle dies. Like, ten episodes in on a show where there's only three fucking main characters. When that happened. You know what I mean? It's like, you know, it was Chris McCarpenter. It was, you know, David Boreanis, and it was. I can't remember. Glenn. Glenn. [01:01:13] Can't remember his name. Glenn something. I'm sorry. Sorry. Doyle. He actually died in real life, so rest in peace. I'm sorry, I don't know your name. Glenn O'Quinn or something like that. Anyway, he died. And like, yeah, they referenced it a couple times, you know, but not much at all. It's pretty much they just forgot about him. But I guess, in their defense, when Wesley Windham price rolls into town on a motorcycle, you step aside. [01:01:37] Anyway, all that is to say, I love that Tasha Yar was brought back here. Great effect. Obviously, Worf would not have been the security officer if we never made peace with the Klingons. And, you know, Tasha Yar would be there because it's not a ship of exploration anymore. So they're not getting killed by Armis. This black oil thing on this planet. They're at war the whole time. I mean, I'm sorry, folks. That's fucking. That's low key. Brilliant, man. Like, that's. That's. You know, I've been using that expression. I'm cutting that out of my vocabulary. It wasn't low key at all. Fucking brilliant. I've been saying low key genius a lot. I'm done. I'm done with it if I say it. Call me out on it. All right? [01:02:14] That's pretty. Pretty brilliant. I think it's probably a sweeps episode, if I'm remembering. Seems like it is. The sweeps episodes were like November, February, and May. So a tv season would go from September to May. And the times when. [01:02:33] I'm not even sure why they were called sweeps, I guess the times when they were really showcasing what they had, maybe for the advertisers or for viewership, they would spend a little more money on these episodes that aired in November, February, and May. And I have to imagine this was one of those episodes because they clearly spent extra money on it. They had some great guest stars. It was just a phenomenal episode, a fan favorite, a fan pleasing episode, a nostalgic episode. Kind of all in one. Not only that, folks, and I've talked about this episode before, but not only does all those amazing things happen in this episode, but this episode sets up one of the greatest twists in Star Trek and maybe the second best cliffhanger in Star Trek history, the season four cliffhanger redemption, where, spoiler alert. [01:03:18] You see Tasha Yara at the end of it, and you're like, how the fuck did that happen? Well, you go back to this episode, and this is why it happened. Brilliant. Brilliant. Keeping that in your back pocket for a future episode. Just a great goddamn episode. And let's talk about the title of the episode. Just simplistic. Perfect. Yesterday's enterprise. Like, I love it. Like, it's just. I know you think that sounds stupid, but that. That's. That's an elegant title for this episode. It really is. Um, just what else can I say about yesterday's enterprise? Brilliant. Love it. It's. It's a masterclass for next gen. It's. It's just a. Just a great highlight of the. Of the series. Love it, love it, love it. Yeah. So, I mean, that's. That's season three and next gen, guys. I mean, you know, this show in season three, right before our eyes, like I'm saying, is just. It's becoming something really special. It was something special before when it came into its own at the end of season one. Or obviously, there were flashes in season one as well. I'm not saying the rest. Beginning of the season, of the episodes were, um, beginning the season was garbage. But, you know, you see season one at the end of season one, season two, you start to see things sort of taking shape. But three, man, they just took off. Love it, love it. I love talking about it because I'm so excited about it. I get so passionate about it. I can't wait to talk about season four with you guys. Hopefully there'll be a lot of episodes in between where I'm talking with somebody else so you don't got to listen to just my voice the whole time. But I thank you for indulging me. I really do. I thank you for listening to just me talk about a show that I love, a franchise that I love and just movies and tv in general. It's just so much fun to talk about this stuff and just the idea that even one of you guys is out there listening and, you know, and you're kind of, you know, thinking along the same lines as me. Worth it. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. 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