Because of his reputation and audience nostalgia, people forget what an absolute, stone-cold badass Levar Burton truly is.

Great podcast episode, super weird show episode lol. I really enjoyed Nates takes lol, and thank you/him for the awesome music! Just gotta add, his picture made me think that he was going to 1. Take me on an adventure, and then 2. Write a full-length novel based on said adventure lol

I love this episode. The ghost physics are really stupid (and not even consistent! Ro is able to touch her chair and console on the bridge!) but I completely do not care because they work just enough to make a problem they can gradually figure out, and every other aspect of the episode is a joy.

7th? It’s top 3 at the very least.

They literally used that scene in Ten Forward, just to make a link between two rather obviously disconnected stories, because Data’s one got shoehorned in pretty much just to pad it out into a two-parter! 😂

Which podcast is this in? Is it actually a newbie, star tre k?Or is this from your films podcast?

i think tasha was just embarassed she obviously found data attractive to fuck him.

I'm just not watching this episode. RIP Tony Todd. 😢

Don't call him sir, he works for a living. In s1 Gene insisted that evyone one board the ship was a commissioned officer. Over time that nothing cot removed because it's a bit weird.

For you not liking Q cause he's a god an all what about the Prohets who in one stroke killed thousands of jem hadar.

I just started this video and was glazing over the comments and Im like "Squaredancing, learning it *in school?*" Thank goodness Georgia seems to be a bit of the odd duck of the south cause I never had to learn that and never even *heard of* people having to in the time I was there

Yet another reason that Next Generation is a MUCH better show

They actually did a crossover between Galaxy Quest and Star Trek in 2024 with one of the Star Trek Mobile games (think it was Star trek Fleet commander?). It's a little thing, but it shows that some are willing to blur the lines of the franchises.

Lol Worf is a bad dad also RIP to the actor who played Worfs brother

>for some reason worf takes his son into a room gull of weapons Ohhhh, so you're not watching the show.

In his interview with Shuttle Pod, he said he had to threaten to quit. Before they listened to him about the makeup. He said the original actually gave him chemical burns.

Id share a coke with Ricardo

Temba, his arms wide open!!

Can someone remind me which episode this is from?

basically you don't have to solve the problem I'm absolutely sure the laws of the Federation already cover this case this whole process is a diplomatic favor where you pretend to negotiate something dramatic and then make the decision that was already on the table

it's not just makeup the whole species has received an update on how the symbiotes work and especially in terms of appearance

I don't think so, sisko could be really deep when the situation warranted it.

O'Brian was feild commissioned as a weapons officer. Never actually being a trained officer, he was given the highest ranking for NCOs: Master Chief. In Jorde LaForge's engineer, he'd be THE go-to guy to repair anything that needed it. O'Brian also had a keen mind for finding people like himself and showing them what they could achieve, if they put their mind to it.

I feel much the same -- never was a fan of the Klingon stuff. I liked Worf better when they used him for light comedy because he was so good at it. I also enjoyed the Bashir conversation a lot, just because he was the one person who would ask intrusive questions, and Data being Data, he'd answer them. I swear that less than one minute, if they hadn't cut the scene, Bashir would have been going, "So do you poop or what?" Two no-filter nerds. :-)

I think when TOS and TNG were in production, people didn't realise how much chess (and other perfect knowledge, non-rng games like 3D chess) can be bruteforced through computation, as computer chess was not common (Kasparov vs Deep Blue was 1996). Computers are so good because they can compile the game three and anticipate all possible evolutions of the game up the number of moves they are programmed to analyse, and Data should easily beat Stockfish for example. The writers probably assumed that he should have "seen" the moves to make by instinct, not compute them algorithmically, and that therefore there was room for a human to slip behind him and win. This also explains the times Kirk beats Spock to a lesser extent.

Did you guys confuse Steve Buscemi and Gary Busey or is that a running joke I'm unaware of?

That acror would make a good physical gomez adams

Sisko: what do you think I am, some sort of emissary here to interpret your dreams as if they were a message from the Prophets?

I'm enjoying y'all's journey through Trek, but why you gotta be hating on what was one of the most beautiful sequences from my childhood?

You guys are going to LOVE the Enterprise theme

DS9 is the best Trek

James also played Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact.

In fact, someone stole the original prosthetic, so a new one had to be made for season 2 forward, so far, the original has not been found.

The message is a little complicated. I think it’s more like about recognizing that all of your positive and negative qualities are a part of who you are. Hence the tapestry. Picard changing this one major decision in his life was more than just that one event. It set off a cascade of behavior that changed his personality from being a person who sometimes takes risk and therefore is more ambitious to someone who always plays it safe. So his role in the enterprise was fine and normal because no one saw him as someone who was willing to put himself out there. That’s why they were surprised when he expressed a desire to be a captain because they knew him as someone who did not really stick out.

I don’t think this episode is about him being dissatisfied with mediocrity. It’s about him realizing that his “mistake” of being reckless and stupid was not a mistake in the grand scheme. He learned from the experience that his actions have consequences. But because he played it safe by not getting into a fight with the people and getting stabbed he never got to experience being reckless and having this consequence of being stabbed. I think that experience made him a better captain. Because he learned that risk is always involved as well as consequence but he wasn’t afraid to take a risk even with that knowledge. It’s like if you don’t try and fail you’ll never know whether you can do something.

Guh-lax..ee 😮😅

That’s hilarious

Cromwell is a great actor. Trek loves him. He became the father of warp flight!

Leave Beverly alone. She's a spicy redhead

Wait till you get to the episodes with thousands of ships on screen at once having space battles.

Galaxy Quest was added to a Star Trek... in one of those rip-off mobile games. Not only was it bad and chessy, a crowd at San Diego Comic Con actually cheered at the trailer.

Trigger words were not even a thing in the 1980s. Let alone the early nineties 1:08:10 you had the seven words you couldn't say on television, and that was it. And again, for the late eighties, early nineties, this is quite progressive

the props are some of the most affordable props you can collect tbh. I have a LCARS tng panel, a DS9 phaser rifle, and some DS9 latinum (be careful lots of fakes of these), and they were all relatively affordable.

Fun fact: When DS9 aired there was a significant uptick of engineering graduates in Ireland. Miles O' Brien single handedly inspired an entire generation of engineers.

I feel like DS9 writers focused on other types of writing. I feel these things happened but they didn’t progress the story they were on so they excluded them. You see instances referenced but not a lot of focus.

Well actually I put spaceballs ahead of Star Wars episodes 1&2@3 and 7&8&9 and I don’t count the 2 side movies