I would, personally, make a distinction between an Easter-egg and an outright 4th wall break.
@therichuation2 жыл бұрын
But then they wouldn't have a list
@Drake-12-392 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!
@knarf2472 жыл бұрын
agreed
@BeeWhistler2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, by these standards I'd include the time Quark was asking people to try root beer and give their opinion. Funny, familiar, but not fourth wall breaking.
@willvgo29502 жыл бұрын
@@BeeWhistler It's insidious... just like the federation
@jenniferbaldini35272 жыл бұрын
'Fourth wall break...' "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means". ~Inigo Montoya, 'The Princess Bride'. 😉 🖖
@mikefarrington71412 жыл бұрын
They never broke the 4th wall, they just glanced in its general direction a few times.
@billkeithchannel2 жыл бұрын
tie knee earl /SoInconceivable
@ultramaximusreviews2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. They need to watch a Deadpool movie, a Bugs Bunny cartoon or read a She-Hulk comic book.... this was embarrassing.
Nog is not an underrated character. He’s not overrated either. But he is a beloved character by almost all fans or trek. His episode with Vic was amazing.
@ianlister73332 жыл бұрын
recent events have gone along way to ensure Nog is no longer an under rated character.
@b1oh12 жыл бұрын
I agree. I do think Vic doesn't always get the recognition he deserves though.
@StockportJambo2 жыл бұрын
*pally intensifies*
@icecold95112 жыл бұрын
We make them sorry they ever set foot in the Alpha Quadrant. I feel sorry for the Jem'hidar
@sleepinggorilla2 жыл бұрын
Nog won me over when he recognized that his own father was not the ideal Ferengi but still had value as an engineer. He did not want to be his father, but he wanted to be like his father at the same time.
@Species-rj9si2 жыл бұрын
The Klingon ridges didn't begin with the Nex Generation (1987). They were first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
@estudiordl2 жыл бұрын
I was looking for this 😃
@fivestar58972 жыл бұрын
you speak like someone who has done their homework, unlike TrekCulture who have done great work in past but really phoned this one in
@Chris-et2fm2 жыл бұрын
True. Also now you have 69 likes. Nice.
@JaredLS102 жыл бұрын
The ridges we know and love didnt happen until Search for Spock in 84, the ridges in TMP the Klingons looked like leather back turtle shell got slapped on to the actors heads.
@davemitchell1162 жыл бұрын
@@JaredLS10 Still, they were ridges. That was my point.
@kstormgeistgem4612 жыл бұрын
ah, but in a meta way, "put on a red shirt" was prophetic never the less. RIP Anton Yelchin... a lovely Checkov and an amazing Odd Thomas.
@GloriaGraceRandАй бұрын
Yes, I realized that too.
@shininginshadows2 жыл бұрын
Surprised Q's "Trek through the stars" line from All Good Things didn't make it in. I mean, he was literally talking about the show ending in the final episode!!!
@brianlane7232 жыл бұрын
He also quotes the episode title in the next sentence.
@Bored_Barbarian2 жыл бұрын
YES! That’s what I thought 😂 was wondering why it wasn’t included
@harcomou83952 жыл бұрын
Because Trekculture is not perfect.
@sarahkinsey54342 жыл бұрын
I remember him saying something about technobabble in a throwaway line
@TakuroSpirit772 жыл бұрын
@@sarahkinsey5434 He said "Troi's pedantic psychobabble"
@jayb89342 жыл бұрын
“In the Pale Moon Light” is definitely a 4th wall break, though done in a very clever way. Sisko is speaking directly to the audience throughout the episode. Brilliantly done!
@jeffreyb.28172 жыл бұрын
What always get me about KZbin videos that discuss "In the Pale Moonlight" is they always say "Two Murders". What about the guards? Garak said 4 guards? A pilot? but at a minimum there was two guards we saw. So at least 4 murders and logically up to 7.
@TheRealJuseBeats2 жыл бұрын
Yea that was dope. I kinda wanted them to do more stuff like that.
@ijmad2 жыл бұрын
Technically I think you'd this a 'framing device'
@StormsparkPegasus2 жыл бұрын
This is called "leaning on the fourth wall", it's not a fourth wall break.
@brianlane7232 жыл бұрын
Garak's "we can forget the whole enterprise" is a chilling fourth wall break.
@johnburnside78282 жыл бұрын
Whoever wrote this has no idea what "breaking the fourth wall" actually means.
@warrenburroughs30252 жыл бұрын
I was going to post the exact same comment. These are not 4th wall breaks they're self references if anything.
@helencaleb21882 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. I'm halfway through the video, scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else is thinking the same thing, and apart from Picard looking at the camera there's nothing else?!
@tomf31502 жыл бұрын
Not even McCoy in Journey to Babel ?
@fivestar58972 жыл бұрын
seems like it was put together hastily
@xyz.ijk.2 жыл бұрын
@@tomf3150 especially not McCoy! He's not even staring into the camera.
@jovanmelton2 жыл бұрын
Quark looks directly in the camera and says Picard’s line from Star Trek First Contact, “The Line must be drawn here, this far and no further.”
@rojoeditor2 жыл бұрын
I'll bet he didn't say "... right heah..."
@rharris47362 жыл бұрын
@@rojoeditor No, but he did say "this fah, no fuh-thah!"
@Proximityillusions2 жыл бұрын
I’m amazed that you didn’t include the last scene from “Ship In A Bottle,” where Picard comments about Barclay’s miniature holodeck: Barclay: “As far as Moriarty and the countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime." Picard: “They will live their lives and never know any difference." Trio: “In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted." Picard: “In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table." (all leave, except Barclay, who apprehensively tests his environment...) Barclay: “Computer, end program." (Nothing happens, and Barclay smiles) Show ends.
@amehak19222 жыл бұрын
Ikr, I expecting this too.
@TheAgent5352 жыл бұрын
I was very surprised this one didn’t make the list, with so many other references that aren’t really fourth wall breaking.
@beauxr.benoit13742 жыл бұрын
What if Barclay doesn't have access to that computer?
@Proximityillusions2 жыл бұрын
@@beauxr.benoit1374, the program ended two seconds later, did it not?
@kelli2172 жыл бұрын
Yep. It was the _end_ of the _program._
@dan12162 жыл бұрын
9:58 - Sela was NOT a clone, she was Tasha Yar's daughter.
@brettcooper38932 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this channel is horrible about doing their homework.
@DaveCummings762 жыл бұрын
@@brettcooper3893 They also said that the Klingons had ridges since TNG...though the movies were when the ridges first showed up
@UltimatePerfection2 жыл бұрын
@@DaveCummings76 That was understandable as they might've meant "in the shows".
@KipdoesStuff2 жыл бұрын
Too many script errors to count. But someone should.
@Kelko-Zamba2 жыл бұрын
Many videos purposely mess up information for audience interaction in the comments...like now. It's a trap they push in in time and time again.
@debunkosaurus82282 жыл бұрын
You missed one from DS9 (I don't recall which episode) where Quark looks into the camera and says, "War. What's it good for? Absolutely nothing."
@countroshculla2 жыл бұрын
Say it again!
@Thurgosh_OG2 жыл бұрын
@@countroshculla "War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing."
@brianlane7232 жыл бұрын
He also gets the "This far, no further" remix
@catnewskawai93672 жыл бұрын
Good God, y'all.
@FuzzyElf2 жыл бұрын
Well, that's silly. Surely the correct answer is, "Profit."
@earth20062 жыл бұрын
You missed a big one, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" when threatened will jail for 200 years Kirk looks at the camera says something like "That's just about right".
@sarahfullerton68942 жыл бұрын
Exactly! One of the best. But this young woman doesn't seem to like the original much, so that's probably why.
@malte19842 жыл бұрын
hmm.... somehow I doubt that you can call an "Easteregg" which the USS Nog and the "I am a Doctor" quote are a 4th wall break...
@samclark3792 жыл бұрын
I agree. More a tribute than a wall break.
@malte19842 жыл бұрын
@@samclark379 yeah... but i`ts still a fun list though
@Heymrk2 жыл бұрын
It's also not an easter egg. It's just a reference.
@malte19842 жыл бұрын
@@Heymrk well, potato patata
@Heymrk2 жыл бұрын
@@malte1984 Nope. More like potato/grapefruit.
2 жыл бұрын
TNG S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: "In a sense, who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table."
@thomasnieswandt88052 жыл бұрын
Thanks, i dont get it, how they could miss THE moment, when Picard admits "Its a TV program" well not strictly speaking but you get the point ...
@tomf31502 жыл бұрын
Computer end program.
@billkeithchannel2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to enclosed flat earth Picard.
@digitalnomad99852 жыл бұрын
@@tomf3150 I wouldn't chance it.
@TheNooberd2 жыл бұрын
I don't think you know what "break the fourth wall" means...
@ToledoNative2 жыл бұрын
I had heard about Denice Crosby waiving to the camera, but never caught it in the show. Thanks for including it.
@GabePuratekuta2 жыл бұрын
Wait, she made sure the camera was coming with her?
@StormsparkPegasus2 жыл бұрын
Occasionally you can lean on the fourth wall (where what they are saying can be interpreted as addressing the audience, but also makes sense in the story - for example it will be revealed that the character is looking at a camera). An actor accidentally looking at the camera is not a fourth wall break. Light references to actor names are also not fourth wall breaks. Characters using known catchphrases is also not a fourth wall break. Fully outright breaking the fourth wall completely destroys the story unless it's a comedy. For example, Spaceballs can break the fourth wall all it wants without messing it up, because it's a comedy.
@andrewmurray15502 жыл бұрын
yeah, and (not sci-fi but...) Fran Drescher did that all the time in "The Nanny" probably partly because it did have a studio audience.
@billkeithchannel2 жыл бұрын
Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?
@DoremiFasolatido19792 жыл бұрын
"It's not what it is, because I don't want it to be!"
@StormsparkPegasus2 жыл бұрын
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Doesn't change the fact that these examples are not fourth wall breaks. They are, at best, leaning on the fourth wall, which is something different.
@TokyoXtreme2 жыл бұрын
Anything with Garry Shandling in the 80s and 90s.
@Selden832 жыл бұрын
On DS9 when Bashir teleports Keiko's fetus into Kira. The pregnant Kira says to Bashir "You did this to me." Which was a wink to their real life marriage and that Siddig was the one who got Visitor pregnant
@thomasnieswandt88052 жыл бұрын
Do you forget your research? Klingons didnt change for TNG?! Klingons look like this since the motion picture in 1979! Also how can you forget "Ship in the bottle" ?? THE MOMENT when Picard admits "Its all a TV show" well not literally, but you get the idea.
@replimatreviews2 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking TrekCulture has another term to look up. Breaking the Fourth Wall does not mean what you evidently think it means.
@OrinThomas2 жыл бұрын
They are too busy labelling stuff "problematic"
@replimatreviews2 жыл бұрын
@@OrinThomas Yes, that's the problem here. *rolls eyes* (In case it's not clear; I don't agree with you.)
@builder3962 жыл бұрын
@@OrinThomas Could you elaborate on that? I seem to be living under a rock.
@Zurround2 жыл бұрын
In STAR TREK 4 THE VOYAGE HOME Dr. McCoy said to the newly resurrected Spock "You really HAVE gone where no man has gone before" (meaning died and came back to life). That line "where no man has gone before" is from the NARRATION.
@SturdivantRacing1262 жыл бұрын
I don't know this video knows what a fourth wall break is vs a reference...
@Normal18552 жыл бұрын
In, First Contact, the doctor said, I'm a doctor, not a door stop.🤣
@TCTurner2 жыл бұрын
I loved the "This is a sickbay, not an arsenal" one. I miss the Doctor!!
@UltimatePerfection2 жыл бұрын
@@TCTurner I hope they'll get Picardo back for the modern shows. The nice thing about his character is that he's a hologram and as such he could appear basically in any series that takes place chronologically after the Voyager, such as Picard or Discovery. Obviously he aged quite a bit, but it could be explained away as Doctor altering his program to look more distinguished.
@TCTurner2 жыл бұрын
@@UltimatePerfection I think he'd be more suited to appear in Prodigy or Lower Decks. As good as they are in their own right, I feel his character is too lighthearted for the modern live action
@Hanneth2 жыл бұрын
I still think Picardo was the best part of Voyager, and sometimes would watch some of the show if I was flipping channels and his character was on screen.
@vladutcornel2 жыл бұрын
Lower Decks specifically talking about TOS deserves a mention.
@dmkatelyn2 жыл бұрын
You know, Those Old Scientists.
@jtkirkfan20022 жыл бұрын
Klingons with facial ridges have appeared that way since Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
@daniel3852 жыл бұрын
I always thought McCoy was looking at Amanda. It doesn't appear he's looking into the camera.
@jenaauerstedt76502 жыл бұрын
I had that same thought. He certainly doesn't appear to be looking at the camera. If you're going to count that, you might as well include Scotty's "Where there'll be no tribble at all" in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
@lloydmills59682 жыл бұрын
My personal favorite isn't on this list. In TNG's series finale, "All Good Things", Q says to Picard, "It's time to put an end to your TREK through the stars...", but the way he pauses after 'trek' and gives a little half smile as he does so makes it obvious it's intended for the audience.
@andrewmurray15502 жыл бұрын
he should have said 'We'll meet again (in about 30 years....), Picard. The trial never ends"
@NeoTechni2 жыл бұрын
"unnecessarily sexy costumes" does not compute
@Renegade27862 жыл бұрын
Funny how Picard's last line in the TNG episode *Ship in a Bottle* is not on this list.
@Lebenszeitbeamter2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!
@jimivel6042 жыл бұрын
Yes! Insert Leo DiCaprio pointing meme here
@NeoMorphUK2 жыл бұрын
Ironically, Anton Yelchin was correct… what a sad way to go.
@lilithmatriarch75092 жыл бұрын
Ouch. Was not prepared.
@givmi_more_w9251 Жыл бұрын
He really did die in a somewhat-red-shirt manner. Such a pity, I really liked him. One of the few elements of the phony spectacle that is JJ Trek that I liked.
@michaeldunahee45372 жыл бұрын
A huge fourth wall break that was overlooked was in the TNG episode "The Game." Picard says, "Go. Replicate what you need, and see that the devices are properly distributed." Then, turning to the camera and staring right at it, he says, "Not forgetting Mr Crusher," and he continues to stare at the camera until the scene ends.
@audiounlimited19632 жыл бұрын
This list is a joke. Meta content ≠ Fourth wall break.
@kevinmorrow90562 жыл бұрын
Kirk never said, “Beam me up, Scotty.” Accuracy is fundamental.
@thompson94002 жыл бұрын
Zefram Cochran's line was classic
@MHesse2 жыл бұрын
These are a vast stretch to be called 4th wall breaks. Seems to be confusion about what an Easter Egg is.
@SanjayMerchant2 жыл бұрын
10:08 There's another layer to Chekhov seeming reluctant to put on the red shirt. Supposedly, when Walter Koenig was first offered the role, someone said to him "Whatever you do, don't let them put you in a red shirt."
@JohnnyX502 жыл бұрын
I cant believe I have never noticed Tasha waving at the camera in Symbiosis! One thing does puzzle me though. After the cheeky wave Picard and Crusher get in a turbo lift and call for main bridge, leaving Tash in the cargo room looking quite busy. Moments later when Picard and Crusher walk onto the bridge, Tasha is at her post looking like she was there all the time. How did she get there so fast? Beamed in? Super Duper Turbo Lift?
@JohnnyWednesday2 жыл бұрын
(watches in shock) "Computer, what is a fourth wall? .... Computer? COMPUTER!!"
@tdpittman56762 жыл бұрын
You missed THE MOST OBVIOUS 4th WALL BREAK in Trek history - when told he would be locked up for 200 years by a USAF Colonel in the 1960s, Kirk looks directly at the camera and deadpans "That ought to be just about right." YOU HAD ONE JOB, Trek Culture!!! ;) (Season 1, Episode 19 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", 35 mins, 20 seconds into the episode)
@sarahfullerton6894 Жыл бұрын
One of my two TOS favorites. I do think McCoy breaks that fourth wall, in "Journey to Babel"! That. And "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" are two on my list of TOS favorites. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy New Year, everyone! Peace!✌
@ChrisReise2 жыл бұрын
Just a quick correction. The Klingons have had their facial ridges since "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, NOT "The Next Generation" in 1987. Additionally, aside from Denise Crosby's wave goodbye, these are nothing but Easter Eggs.
@jenaauerstedt76502 жыл бұрын
I think Sulu's wink in "The Infinite Vulcan" counts as a fourth wall break, too. As would have the lines from "Ship in a Bottle" if they had thought to include it.
@givmi_more_w9251 Жыл бұрын
In the Pale Moonlight I can get behind as a fourth-wall break, as Sisko is basically justifying his actions to himself, and by extension, the audience directly. It is definitely in the right ballpark. The "I'm a doctor, not an xyz" is not even in the same galaxy. It's called a running joke.
@mrbjangles2 жыл бұрын
The first contact? Breaking the credibility fourth wall there 🤣🤣🤣
@loki787312 жыл бұрын
"Beam me up Scotty" was never uttered even once in the original Star Trek.
@joermnyc2 жыл бұрын
The closest is in Voyage Home, when Kirk thinks he’s saying goodbye to Gillian: “Scotty, beam me up.”
@sandradavis71322 жыл бұрын
That's why she says it's apocryphal.
@Kremmen20012 жыл бұрын
Breaking the fourth wall. I don’t think that means what you think it means…
@The_Lucent_Archangel2 жыл бұрын
The wormhole in "The Price" led to the Delta, not Gamma Quadrant. That was how Janeway and Co. ended up finding the two Ferengi who bumbled through to try and foul up the negotiations and got stuck on the other side when the wormhole shifted position.
@GoddessPallasAthena2 жыл бұрын
The Nog / Eisenberg Easter Egg is a sweet tribute.
@chadrickmansfield2 жыл бұрын
I feel this girl doesn't know the difference between a fourth wall break and a callback.
@lingitsheshark7 күн бұрын
Or, ya know, the author
@AlexGreeneHypnotist2 жыл бұрын
The "Chekov redshirt" moment became far, far more poignant only a few years later, when Anton Yelchin died, leaving you the reader not knowing whether to laugh or groan at this moment.
@HighHeelKnight2 жыл бұрын
Is Ellie Littlechild's real name Sean Ferrick because that is who is credited for presenting this list? 🤷 UPDATE = The editor and Ms Littlechild responded on Twitter. It was a shortsighted error.
@alonespirit99232 жыл бұрын
Go look up Sean Ferrick on Twitter.
@HighHeelKnight2 жыл бұрын
@@alonespirit9923 The TrekCulture staff responded on Twitter. Thanks.
@willdwyer67822 жыл бұрын
The "I'm a doctor" gag isn't as funny without being preceded by, "Dammit Jim..."
@--Animal--2 жыл бұрын
What about "he's dead jim..."
@amehak19222 жыл бұрын
A fan tweeted Aaron Eisenberg to ask him if he'd do a cameo as Nog on the Picard series, Aaron said he'd love to. He went to the hospital and died within 24 hours. :'(
@TakaComics2 жыл бұрын
The thing about that First Contact line though... everyone laughed at it. I still think it's a genuinely funny line, especially when said by a drunk and clueless Zephram Cochrane. XD
@builder3962 жыл бұрын
You somehow included easter eggs, but not the scene where Picard laments that perhaps even he and his crew perhaps exist just inside a box on someone's desk. HOW? (Episode would be "Ship in a Bottle")
@christine83412 жыл бұрын
That’s more a reference to simulation theory than a fourth wall break, I think.
@josephsouther9874 Жыл бұрын
They also forgot when Picard stares directly at the camera at the end of the cold opening of the TNG episode “Sarek”
@Toktokispoison2 жыл бұрын
When McCoy gets the last word, he’s not looking at the camera, he’s looking and talking to nurse Chappel
@chefexcellence3222 жыл бұрын
That wormhole that the Ferengi wanted access to lead to the Delta quadrant, not the Gamma quadrant.
@adhominid32692 жыл бұрын
Could we get a presenter that's actually watched Trek please?
@cartermariano2 жыл бұрын
You mean a man? It might be a more appropriate idea to complain to whoever wrote the script she was reading from.
@adhominid32692 жыл бұрын
@@cartermariano I'm not fussed if the presenter is a man a woman or other but if the presenter had spent any time watching Trek they would have picked up on the fluffs
@xcv732 жыл бұрын
It's a bot reading the script. No inflection and no breathing.
@RealBadGaming522 жыл бұрын
@@cartermariano where did that come from, most top 10 listsare usualy some MAN or some Woman who clarly never watches the show.
@DanEllis2 жыл бұрын
Or just one who isn't quite so shrill sand breathless.
@ErfMuck2 жыл бұрын
Sorry can I ask why are you shouting through the whole video?
@DeathBYDesign6662 жыл бұрын
I liked the Picardos doctor quips even better than McCoys honestly, basically because since he's a hologram he could practically use anything. I'm a doctor, not a database for instance. The irony being is he usually is the very thing he says he isn't as well to an extent.
@theapostatejack86482 жыл бұрын
"I'm a doctor, not a historian!" - Julian Bashir - The Trouble with Tribbles
@Rockhound61652 жыл бұрын
That's not a 4th wall break. That's trolling if we want to use a more contemporary term.
@88Bluebird2 жыл бұрын
Missed a big one. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, there's the scene in the transporter room after the klingon delegation beams back to their ship, the whole bridge crew complains about the experience leaving Spock to stare perplexed into the camera before delivering his iconic raised eyebrow.
@Tyracks2 жыл бұрын
It is the biggest one imo
@KommanderKrim2 жыл бұрын
In a semi related way to the #1 entry, Q says something similar to Picard in the TNG series finale saying "your trek through the stars"
@SheosMan1172 жыл бұрын
You know, Q was actually the first to talk about a "Trek through the stars." And it would make sense that a being as powerful as him, as omniscient as him, could see past the 4th wall to a degree.
@andrewmurray15502 жыл бұрын
and Cochrane with is "you're astronauts on some kind of star trek...". kind of stating the obvious exposition, but also a self-reference.
@wickideazy2 жыл бұрын
Your credits are broken, folks. Writer: Nick Edgeworth, Presenter: Sean Ferrick?
@jasonjimerson70462 жыл бұрын
I think you missed one... "What am I? A doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" ...McCoy said that prior to Devil in the Dark in The Corbomite Maneuver.
@samclark3792 жыл бұрын
She did say "in its traditional form". That line qualifies as a moment, but it's not in the exact wording fans are used to.
@jeffreywaldman35042 жыл бұрын
You forgot "Ship in a Bottle" from TNG. Picard giving a smile suggesting they too are inside a device on someone's table.
@timadams39752 жыл бұрын
One of my favs from the TNG.
@Milewskige2 жыл бұрын
8:20 I always wondered how the "smooth" faced Klingons didn't recognize that Worf was "normal"
@tetravega5672 жыл бұрын
I thought the 1st one about the Ferengi was gonna mention the Marauder Mo action figures in DS9.
@HeathInClearLake2 жыл бұрын
trying to get through this video was exhausting. Keep it simple and quick, please
@reddblackjackАй бұрын
I just noticed one in "Gamesters of Triskellion". The drill Thrall is talking to Chekov about her Provider and says they might be selected for each other. Chekov then looks into the camera with an ambiguous look. Obviously embarrassed but you can't tell if he's into the thrall and shy or not into her being polite. And for all you Fourth wall break deniers out there, yes any time the audience is acknowledged counts. The definitions I read (most anyway) include phrases like and/or and flat out say just a look is necessary, but could also include a reference to the title of the episode or description of the show's premise. Heck eveery song in a musical could be considered a fourth wall break because people don't just erupt into group singing about what's happening IRL. I was a lead in my last church musical at age 15 and I sang directly to the audience multiple times. Since any acknowledgement of the audience counts, the SNW musical episode is filled with them. Even the intro where Kirk or Picard say ( These are the Voyages......) count too. Unless your diary says something at the beginning like " These are the entries of a human living on Earth......", and talking like that is normal, I'm correct! So, if you're going to leave negative comments trying to catch another person's mistakes, you better DAMN well know what you're talking about. 😂
@FalloutJack2 жыл бұрын
Patrick Stewart is indeed a fine Shakespearean actor, and I have seen the I, Claudius which you nodded to while saying so. However, while Shakespeare himself never leaned too heavily on the fourth wall, theatre actors have done so, from time to time. Even still, we can still take it as Picard rolling his eyes at the universe for putting him in the position to deal with the Ferrengi.
@stephenconger20292 жыл бұрын
I propose a "Lower Decks" "MST3K" crossover where they try to rescue a man trapped in space only to be captured themselves and then forced to watch an old Star Trek episode referred to as a historical document.
@jimmeans142 жыл бұрын
Q's line toward the end of "Deja Q" when he said to Riker, "So stolid, commander. You weren't like this before the beard."
@markmayfield22282 жыл бұрын
Just because the actor is looking directly into the camera, it doesn't mean it is a 4th wall break. It is used as a meta comment. The character is making an off-hand comment to him/herself. Not even Sisko's lines. It was expository. He was still making his log recording. Then he deleted the entire thing, ending the episode.
@andrewmurray15502 жыл бұрын
Sisko recording his log and apparently speaking to us, the audience is probably not the intention of the episode. He's recording his video-log just as modern you-tubers would today, so of course he's speaking direct to camera, so intentional, not accidental or unscripted.
@CaptRobertApril2 жыл бұрын
TOS, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" Colonel Fellini: "I'm going to lock you up for two hundred years." Captain Kirk: (to camera) "That oughta be just about right."
@CassieLopez2 жыл бұрын
This is the one I kept waiting for.
@danielyeshe2 жыл бұрын
What about Q's comment in All Good Things? 'We're going to put an end to your trek through the stars.' I actually prefer that to the First Contact line. As it is a more natural sentence.
@andrewmurray15502 жыл бұрын
that's silly too. Q practically gives Picard the answer to the puzzle about the gaseous anomaly, but dismisses it as being "all too easy" (said the same thing about Farpoint Station).
@SuperStoogefan2 жыл бұрын
"...despite his temporary fatality..." 😂
@dakariszulu2 жыл бұрын
How to say you don't understand what the fourth wall is without saying that you don't understand what the fourth wall is...
@rebbeccahoneycutt79412 жыл бұрын
I just came to the rather devastating realization that there is a major real world coincidence to poor Chekhov donning that red shirt... We did lose him not to long after. R.I.P. Anton Yelchin.
@Heymrk2 жыл бұрын
His death is a reminder those stupid dial transmissions are bad news.
@BryanGullickson2 жыл бұрын
@@Heymrk except his wasnt a dial transmission if i remember right the jeep had the same shifter that the chargers had where it was like the BMW or Toyota shifters where you just tapped it into gear and the dial was only used in the RAM trucks and the Chrysler sedans but his death and the fix FCA did for all vehicles at that time and the new ones and that has been copied to almost all new vehicles from every manufacturer that people have a very strong dislike for is that if you are unbuckled and you open your door the vehicle will either slam it's self to park or auto applies the Emergency/parking brake
@Heymrk2 жыл бұрын
@@BryanGullickson It was transmission failure.
@stevek40702 жыл бұрын
In The Pale Moonlight was such a great episode! I never noticed Denise waving in the background of that one episode. Felt really sweet.
@lucasgabrielpereirabarbosa9672 Жыл бұрын
Man, c'mon, those "Kind of Star Trek" quote was brilliant, I always giggle to myself when I remember it and it was a perfect place to quote it
@AceSpadeThePikachu2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if I'd call most of these "fourth wall breaks." Most of them are more homages than anything else.
@wesleyhoward55992 жыл бұрын
Seeing Patrick Stewart with hair is oddly unsettling.
@ZantherStone2 жыл бұрын
Q also makes reference to ending their trek across the stars. And more recently makes reference to Yesterday’s Enterprise.
@hopewec2 жыл бұрын
As someone who enjoys bad puns, Cochrane's line got a chuckle and a groan from me.
@michaelmckinnon73142 жыл бұрын
Amazingly no 4th wall breaks actually appear on this list
@cateclism3162 жыл бұрын
McCoy's last line in Journey to Babel is my personal favorite!
@bigloudnoise2 жыл бұрын
Another "wink to the camera" moment happens in Star Trek The Motion Picture, where Kirk winks to the camera after Spock helps fix the engines and they successfully jump to warp.
@stevenlitvintchouk31312 жыл бұрын
I thought he was winking at Chekov.
@FuzzyElf2 жыл бұрын
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 I'd have winked at Chekhov. Either one. ;-)
@kip2582 жыл бұрын
If you ask me, Patrick Stewart looks like he's looking just past the camera and not directly at it in that first one.
@Mohegan132 жыл бұрын
The closest thing to a fourth wall break in TNG that I remember was "Ship in a Bottle" when Picard does his "Our reality may be very much like theirs, all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table" speech.
@guitargodthor22 жыл бұрын
This isn't breaking the 4th wall. It's mostly Easter Eggs. Picard didn't look at the camera, he turned his head and body in disbelief because he's a Shakespearian actor and he is not afraid to used his whole body to get the point accross.
@fredfiles21552 жыл бұрын
You should have included Q turning the Voyager into a Christmas Tree ornament. RL trek ship ornaments was an annual tradition at the time
@adcraziness15012 жыл бұрын
You missed one of Doc McCoy's fourth wall breaks. In Star Trek V when Kirk is climbing the mountain, Bones is looking through some treknoculars and directly addresses the camera... "Playing games with life... If I'm not careful I'll end up talking to myself" etc. I don't remember the exact scene but I remember him almost directly addressing the viewers.
@mrmike19722 жыл бұрын
I never noticed the Denise Crosby wave good-bye before.
@ianlister73332 жыл бұрын
Trials and Tribble-ations has another one. I think its O Brian and Bashir confuse a character played by Kirks body double for Kirk himself.
@locutus1552 жыл бұрын
The closest Kirk ever got to "Beam me up Scotty!" was "Scotty beam me up!"
@AdamKNAC2 жыл бұрын
To be honest, In TOS Kirk never said *Beam me up, Scotty* the closest that William Shatner ever got to speaking that line was in _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_ was when Kirk, McCoy, and Gillian were returning to the ship after saving Chevok from the hospital and he speaks into the communicator *Scotty, beam me up* to where Gillian decides to jump on to Kirk so that she can beam up with him and help them with finding the whales.
@andyharris40482 жыл бұрын
To be fair, she said it was an apocryphal quote.
@Anarchist86ed2 жыл бұрын
The Klingons have been bumpy headed since the motion picture, not TNG.
@adhoc1812 жыл бұрын
what about breathing between sentences?
@venerablebrothergoriate58442 жыл бұрын
Worf and Miles reminiscing about the Enterprise: Worf: “We were like great warriors. There was nothing we couldn’t do.” Miles: “Ah- except keep the holodecks working though, eh?” Fr tho the number of episodes that centered around something being wrong with the damn holodeck 🤣