Captain Picard shaping the impressions of young people.

S05E22

[@kilroy987]

"You can be my best friend!" " .... .... I'm leaving."

[@tuanseattle]

No such thing as friendzone :v

[@davecrupel2817]

That was so harsh lol

[@whiteknightcat]

What a selfish little bitch she was!

[@Willpowerbomb]

Daniel Cannata there’s more to the episode after this

[@lucas70767]

Got bumped away

[@LordShadrach]

That is what I love about Picard. He was diplomatic in his dealings when he needed to be and a soldier when he needed to be.

[@willieoelkers5568]

A true warrior poet.

[@dm121984]

If star fleet were real, they'd try and staff each ship with clones of piccard.

[@hudsonball4702]

WAS is right. Star Trek PICARD ruined that part of him.

[@ransom182]

REAL MEN SHOOT FIRST AND DONT ASK QUESTUONS. IM A MAN!!

[@thegoodgeneral]

“Was” indeed. Picard is dead.

[@BruderSenf]

you have been unfriended on spacebook

[@Cjnw]

Spacebook? There goes the planet!!

[@nigelsookram882]

Alien Lifeform...has left the Chat

[@OpenMawProductions]

Boy, it sure is nice when you watch a piece of classic Trek and remember that they were capable of solving problems without "FIRE PHASERS!"

[@cqtaylor]

+OpenMawProductions Um, you do remember Captain Kirk, right?

[@lexsmith8689]

+OpenMawProductions well as auntie kathy said herself...sometimes diplomacy requires a little saber rattling...

[@morro190]

Katherine was horrible. First female captain and they get lost in space, go figure.

[@CrniWuk]

You forgot the photon torpedos. They are also good at solving stuff in the movies.

[@adammacleod925]

I don't think she was horrible at all.

[@OneEyedKeys]

The Poet; The Diplomat; The Soldier; The Leader; The Philosopher; The Academic; Captain Jean Luc Picard. One of the greatest television or movie characters ever created.

[@williamleewolverine]

I miss this version of Picard. The new show did his character wrong.

[@borninvincible]

@@williamleewolverine i thought it was nice to see him and the old gang again

[@williamleewolverine]

@@borninvincible yes it is

[@borninvincible]

@@williamleewolverine I just got caught up on Picard. I’m on season 3 of Discovery. I like it so far. The Lower Decks animated show was very good too super funny and witty.

[@williamleewolverine]

@@borninvincible nice

[@piotrd.4850]

This child actress did remarkable job!

[@Dowlphin]

I think it came naturally to her. 😄

[@basteagui]

@@Dowlphin which one? the creepy one? or the sweet girl

[@Locutus]

@@basteagui Creepy one.

[@Locutus]

@@basteagui She played it very well. Far above her years. Very convincing. You don't get the impression you're talking to an 8 year old girl.

[@dancahill9122]

@@Dowlphin Sometimes acting well, does come naturally. Even to some children. Just like the young lady that played the Olson "brat" on Little House on the Prairie. 😊😊😊

[@KingToll]

"If you still want to be my friend, I'd like that very much." "Nope, I'm outta here!"

[@szahmad2416]

Too much curfew.

[@BobyChanMan]

Picard is the representation of the absolute best that humanity has ever and will ever have to offer

[@Cjnw]

Q sent him through the fire to prove that

[@Shiirow]

he was, now he is a feminist punching bag in Star Trek : Hard Luck Pickard

[@matthewjones2095]

@@Shiirow its just a show you should really just realax

[@scrappyny7432]

@Patrick McMahon ok pedophile/groomer

[@craigdaurizio686]

​@@matthewjones2095 It's propaganda, how about you wake up and be a little more lively instead of telling op to relax?

[@DavidAWA]

Given how many lifeforms are "orbs" in Star Trek, I'm surprised they don't seem to have any type of long term relationship with them. They are always mysterious and fleeting.

[@zakesters]

Well, I mean, one sticks to one's evolutionary predispositions: cats stalk, tortoises hide, apes make tools, and orbs flee away mysteriously.

[@jauxro]

"Please don't hurt us... We can still be friends..." "'Don't hurt us?' Ugh, everyone wants to control me. Bye."

[@Ares99999]

As a kid, watching this, I saw things from Clara's perspective. Now, I'd see things from Picard's perspective. Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek: DS9 were GREAT for this: they explored real issues and characters generally didn't shy away from pointing out flaws in said issues, but also in explaining why they believed what they believed. Even the 'bad' guys often were not so bad when their thinking was explained.

[@tarvoc746]

I think I was somewhere between twelve and fourteen when I saw this episode for the first time, and I already saw it from Picard's perspective.

[@leonader9465]

@@tarvoc746 I think that is to be expected from a 12 - 14 year old child.

[@tarvoc746]

@@leonader9465 OP said he didn't.

[@leonader9465]

@@tarvoc746 OP could have been much younger than that.

[@tarvoc746]

@@leonader9465 Fair enough.

[@caityreads8070]

"If you'd still like to be my best friend, I'd like that very much!" 'imma head out'

[@relix7373]

That girl did a pretty good job acting this episode given that she looks like she's only about 10 or 11.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

For a guy who regularly made a big fuss and bother about not liking to be around kids, Jean-Luc Picard is probably one of the best father figures in all of pop culture.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

I used to think TNG was about outer space. Now I know it was about humanity.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

I wish I could give your comment more than than one 👍. I wonder who wrote this episode. They did a good job of looking at the human experience from a perspective not usually considered in the show, or even in contemporary media culture.

[@generalkenobi5533]

Sometimes, you just have to sit back and be amazed at what an unbelievable actor Sir Patrick is. Those lines were delivered so compellingly.

[@Wimpoman]

"If you'd still want to be my best friend, I'd like that very much." "lol Bye."

[@acnelson75]

This episode really showed how much Jean-Luc perspective on children softened over the years. The irony is I think his time with Data and aiding in his quest to become human helped with this a lot.

[@alyzu4755]

I went to a convention that Sir Patrick Stewart was at and he spoke about these two girls, that they were absolutely adorable and he loved working with them. ❤️

[@tbirum]

Picard: QUICK SOMEBODY GET A FLY SWATTER!!

[@howardX81]

Captain Picard has been shaping my Impressions for almost forty years!

[@Infernal460]

Just look and hear the quality of this scene, it has so much then that we are missing now. I did not realise how lucky I was to see such well performed well crafted scenes for star treck.

[@Automobiliana]

As a parent of three young ones, this struck a chord, I shed a small tear

[@Kaervek87]

"If you want to be my best friend, I'd like that very much!" *peaces out*

[@SpydeyDan]

1:51 Whoa... uh... best friends? Okay, this is getting too serious. I'm out.

[@neiloch]

Thats why she smiled, she was worried for a second and then was like 'oh, I can just leave'

[@Cd5ssmffan]

yeah, notice there were many others like her surrounding the enterprise in the end, she already has friends

[@Locktwiste72]

Picard was the consummate diplomat. True, there were times when phasers were the only answer, but those decisions were decisions of last resort, if all else failed. Remember DARMOK? For the first time we saw an alien species who had enough firepower to blow Enterprise to kingdom come, and very nearly did do, all because of a language that not even the universal translator could decipher. It was Picard's tenacity and his ability to find common ground with them, his ability to turn a possible enemu into s potential ally that saved them all.

[@titaniumx3]

This is why I loved TNG so much. It was so much more than just a sci-fi series.

[@nedimsisic2370]

titaniumx3 Thats what was differentiating it from other sci-fi, but with STD, its all gone, it is just a generic sci-fi series now. At least we have a spiritual successor, the Orville, with a simillar, albeit more comedic vibe than TNG.

[@johntrevy1]

People actually saw Picard as their second dad.

[@paul16451]

Gene Roddenberry always intended the series to be about the people, and not the time. True science fiction is not space opera. It is a story told from an alternate world view with the intent of looking at the issues (usually social or political issues) of today. Roddenberry knew that probably better than anyone.

[@hmm2598]

The purity of a child makes me cry and i miss being one deeply!

[@thumrabeldeiti9336]

Yes officer keep a close eye on this one right here

[@ssjwes]

And now we destroy that purity through our own educational systems.

[@ssjwes]

@@thumrabeldeiti9336 if I had to choose between you two, I'd choose you for the officer to watch.

[@techracer2003]

Even though Picard summed up this reasoning so very well, he was able to persuade this alien in child's form, because it was not a child. But this very bit of reasoning every parent uses never get through their children, because the perspective of a child is that the parent for the most part just sets up rules which will ultimately restrict their freedom to do what they want and grow. Only when we, the children, grow up to be adults and become parents ourselves do we truly realize and even appreciate what our own parents did for us.

[@DefaultDerrick]

God is much the same way.

[@nocliper101]

Boo

[@JanetStarChild]

Derek, God is a myth. But if you want to believe in it, then keep it to yourself.

[@CrniWuk]

God, Derek Thomas, is not a loving father but actaully a child with an magnifier and some ant-hill. Picard would probably give him a lecture, Sisko a spanking and Janeway telling him to grow up. Kirk would probably play with him.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

+Derek Thomas amen

[@beingsshepherd]

If only the mighty were that reasonable in real life.

[@guywithdacap4713]

Or Sisko. One less war crime would have been nice.

[@SaintStrider]

It's rad how the guy on the right (Jeff Allin) at 1:01 also played the father of the character you play as in Star Trek: Borg. I love how they reuse the same actors in different roles in Star Trek. The counselor in that game also played a Klingon in an episode of TNG too.

[@bobpage6597]

And, in Star Trek Borg, the guy who played Sprint (Tarik Ergin) ends up playing Lieutenant Ayala on Voyager. He was also in Generations aboard the Enterprise D, and wore Satan's Robot costume on Voyager for the Captain Proton holodeck show. He was also in a few episodes of Enterprise.

[@Paul-A01]

Sisko would have just blasted the damn thing

[@Rensune]

Sisko is a Dad, so he would've given the brat a spanking :D

[@Maverickgrindstar]

So would every other captain who isnt Picard

[@Rhythmicons]

Kirk would try to sleep with her. Archer would try to play with her. Sisko wouldn't have time for her bullshit and Janeway would set the ship to self-destruct. @@Rensune

[@joshschilmeister1934]

Sisko was a stern negotiator, and not the diplomat picard was, but I don't get why everyone thinks he's a shoot first ask questions later type. Remember when he got the Klingon's to abandon their assault on DS9? Or when he got the Khitomer accords reinstated? Or when he got the romulans to join the war(diplomacy sometimes gets messy). He maintained a somewhat amicable relationship with Gul Dukat, which to my mind basically wins him the Nobel Peace prize.

[@wyqtor]

@LordMIGtau Could be worse: "Captain, our sensors indicate this lifeform's energy signature is compatible with our replicator energy matrix" "Mr. Paris, set a course. There's coffee in that nebula."

[@tonyt73]

For the love of God...I miss this level of incredibly good Star Trek!

[@Foebane72]

When the Isabella lifeform floated out of the Enterprise and all of the other energy beings disappeared outside, it was like she'd told them: "It's OK, these aliens are no threat to us."

[@Redshirt434]

Sisko would've just Punched Isabella and said "I'm not Picard!" 😂

[@mmjahink]

uhhh no, that would never happen. Sisko would not hit a little girl, even an entity posing as one.

[@hithere5553]

Have… have you seen the first episode? I know funny haha violent sisko but jeez don flanderize him.

[@Slowpoke3x]

@@hithere5553 sisko has a long streak of aggression and only a minimal amount of patience.

[@leechrec]

Sisko got a chip on his shoulder 😆

[@none3209]

"If you still want to be my best friend, I'd like that very much!" *Flies away*

[@still_guns]

Clara is such a cute kid. Her face makes my heart melt

[@nedimsisic2370]

That escalated quickly.

[@quoniam426]

She plays an alien child in DS9, one that doesn't get afraid of Odo.

[@artman2oo3]

That was such a good episode.

[@noobsavant]

Picard: I'm...haha...I'm a role model" Kid (Alien): "I'm sure you are"

[@rickhobson3211]

Kid: "If you still want to be my best friend, I would like that very much!" Alien Lifeform: "Nope! Byyyeeeeee!"

[@animateddepression]

The sheer fucking hubris of reasoning with an alien to save his ship and crew.

[@Gorevet]

"Aight I'ma change into a ball of light and think that one over then"

[@CrniWuk]

You've seen this? All of you 'new' Star Trek fans out there which know only the JJ Abrams movies? This here has no villain, no explosions, no huge threatning star ship fighting in some nebula no one gives a fuck about. And yet, it contains more tension, plot and excitement than 10 CGI battles in space. It's Picard giving one of his speches. And just wait till you saw Data and Spock talking to each other.

[@forrestpenrod2294]

Its also an episode that would never work in a film format. Its Star Trek at its most brilliant but its why Star Trek is best suited for Television and the movies should be looked upon as extra innings as we would say in Baseball. The Abrams movies have made Star Trek popular again which means it may very well have allowed the environment for another great series to come into being. The potential dozens of hours of new intellectual Trek to me is a fair exchange for six hours of action Star Trek movies.

[@hub5343]

Although I agree in principle Forrest Penrod, unfortunately the real outcome is that the trajectory of the show has become more action based and less intellectual as a result of the 'action movies'. The younger, more fresher, generation have watched only the recent Star Trek movies, and Star Trek Discovery, and have not had any contact with earlier shows. Unfortunately I have a belief, that Star Trek as it was is now dead. Perhaps the generation after this (in 20 years time) will resurrect the old, noble and intellectual principles, but it is more likely that this won't happen.

[@davecrupel2817]

As much as i agree with you, i will say this. Trekkies have been waiting for a quality, well made combat scene, for decades. And though his movies failed in many ways, Abrams gave us a taste of that.

[@floppydisksareop]

Can't we have the best of both worlds? A great intellectual Star Trek, with occasional quality combat scenes? Like every seventh episode is more action-based or something?

[@hub5343]

Have a look at Discovery if you doubt my prediction. The series has slipped heavily into absurd pseudoscience, with action figure caricatures who are essentially inhuman. Sure, start with a war, maybe to gain interest perhaps?, but the war plot doesn't go anywhere, there are no real consequences to it from a our soul, our human point of view, and everyone is essentially inhuman anyway so should I care too? One scene I recall was the Doctor on the ship, had his neck snapped in an instant on the show by the Security Chief. He unceremonially fell in a heap on the ground. What happened then, was there any grief? Was there even a discussion about how he died, why, did anyone show sadness at his passing? Did anyone even know? No - none of that. Instead the next scene (and all that follow) they go about their daily business, and next episode there was simply a new doctor. Now if you had your work colleague die in such a random act of extreme violence, wouldn't you try to find out who did it, or at least wouldn't you talk about it? The fact the producers, writers and actors all didn't really care, meant the show doesn't care - this isn't Star Trek is it? Star Trek wasn't just a show set in space, it was actually about us. About what we feel, how we work through problems, react to new situations, about feeling wonder. Discovery is a dead show, an evil one. I get none of these attributes with Discovery - in fact it actively works against what Star Trek laboured so hard to create. Oh well - like the Holocaust, perhaps the only good about it is that it ended. Discovery will end eventually (I don't think it can recover from its current unsavoury position) and I find myself thinking that's actually a good thing.

[@Gratios]

There’s the go to your room, and there’s this.

[@russellbarndt6579]

I think the just morals on treating other Beings (Humans) and avoiding a wayward mind with simplicity in view of life was started with the TNG series and preluded my effort in studying Taoism to better understand myself and humanity while evaluating the possibility of a realize being(a conscious) living without a material body in perhaps in a chosen place and or environment within the mind .

[@martinm.1967]

I liked that NEW Age feel in the early TNG episodes...

[@faceless_lurker]

Star Trek videos have the best comments I've ever seen.

[@BecketTheHymnist]

"I'm not good with kids" - Captain Picard

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Isabella was not really a kid. Picard knew that.

[@ryanrobison6334]

What a transcendent way to realize angels...

[@kutter_ttl6786]

Clara would be more than old enough to have kids now. The actress playing her was born in 1983 so she would be 37 right now.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

37? Even if she wouldn't have kids "now", her life would hardly be concluded & she could well have them in the future. There will always be another tomorrow; that is both the wonderful and the terrible thing about it.

[@terminat1]

I do believe this is an underrated episode.

[@henkman00]

Alien girl: ''But in the first season, you allowed a child to die even when Riker had the power to save her'' Picard: ''yes, well. I was a bit of an ass in the first season...''

[@xandercorp6175]

woosh

[@runetide]

@@xandercorp6175 What's being whooshed exactly?

[@KnightRaymund]

yeah, that episode was... bad.

[@basteagui]

@@KnightRaymund the one where riker gets the power of the Q? and he can literally undo death. picard asks riker to keep the child dead. OOOOOOOOOOOF. you know picard is a bit of a hypocrite he's broken his own rules often enough. sisko would say SURE, DO IT with his stone cold demeanor

[@James-lh7rj]

Bringing up that episode as a circular argument, we could be here for a while, All right let's jump Right in it is a moral and ethical decision with far-reaching consequences do we act because we have the power or does the power control the ACT, I believe Plato said it best when..........

[@laker4life36]

Woah... did anyone else notice the Star Trek: Borg guy at 1:02 in the clip? I didn’t know he was ever actually in a Star Trek series. This is awesome!

[@jamesfry8983]

I love how Picard just assumes Clara will one day have children of her own

[@Wiseguy1120]

It's a post scarcity society with untold medical tech. It might be a good assumption simply because they've eliminated a lot social issues. He's also making a highly generalized argument about human continuity... For an alien.

[@malcolmlovett3]

Shhhh. Let the scene be.

[@SneakyShark]

One of those TNG moments that has stuck with me and resonates now I'm a Dad..

[@BM-yy8db]

They see him as a role model.

[@TheCoolProfessor]

And Clara grew up to be the first ambassador to the flying glowie thingies. Glowballs....whatever.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

Navi's distant relatives, at least they don't try to get you to listen every 5 seconds

[@blinkbright]

The dialogue in this episode is very adult. I'm an adult and it went completely over my head. All I heard was, "Children, protect," and then suddenly Navi appeared and left the ship.

[@CrniWuk]

Jesus fucking christ. More story telling, emotion, character archs and drama in 2 min of old Trek than Discovery and Picard combined. What the hell happed?

[@stewart_fisher]

Woke writers who have no concept of nuances of the classic Star Trek Franchises.

[@georgegarcia566]

That was good stuff

[@maidros85]

Seeing scenes like this from TNG, I can understand why people were taken aback by DS9. Shame, because the series has its own strengths.

[@thegoodgeneral]

Those people see Star Trek now and probably realize how premature their DS9 reactions were.

[@omnientertainment5852]

DS9 WAS AWESOME

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

There is no "Shame" about it. They were different, not necessarily better or worse.

[@ExplodingPiggy]

"I guess we'll take that as a 'no' then?"

[@snowthemegaabsol6819]

I'm 50/50 on this scene. On one hand, yes, it is of paramount importance, even required, to teach children what to do to be safe. Even adults need safety training. But on the other hand, an equally or perhaps more important part has gone completely unmentioned. Why. For example, the classic hot stovetop. We've all done it once, admit it. Yup, when I was 6, I placed my hand flat on a hot stove. Major burn, I had to go see a dermatologist. But I don't regret it. If I had the option to go back and stop myself from getting that burn, I wouldn't. I already knew stoves were hot, but that moment taught me that they were painful. Very hot things are painful, and if it hurts enough, the pain lasts even after you lift your hand up, and you go to the doctor. If you're going to tell a child that they can't do something, you also have to tell them why. If you don't, you know they're going to do it. Plus, this kind of principle is misconstrued so often by parents that prevent their children from having fun. For example, jumping in puddles. Humans are not made of sugar, a puddle never hurt anyone. Let the kid jump in and splash around, they are not only having fun, but learning crudely about the physics of impacts and cratering. Snatching them away and scolding them snuffs out the bright light of curiosity and jollity that we were all born with, instead teaching them to resign that away to maintain a strict, stagnant, social etiquette that causes us all untold levels of stress just by interacting with other people. The lesson from this scene depends on the responsibility of the listener to take it at face value only

[@roadyogi1697]

This is the classic Trek I remember. I wonder if the modern space-horror-action of Abram's Era Trek is simply because we'd already used up all the philosophy ideas and there's nothing left there to explore.

[@blackhammer5035]

There are always more and better questions, but people today are more afraid than ever to ask questions they don't have answers for. It's a societal thing, I think: The Original Series revolved around the idea there were infinite possibilities outside, while so much nowadays is directed inward. DS9, for all its strengths, highlights that trend quite a bit.

[@Demiglitch]

Now this is the power of math!

[@creatip123]

Our time: oh she have imaginary friends, how cute.... Their time: oh she have imaginary friends, what species is it? Are they hostile??

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Their time? I wonder if humans ever are able to travel into space, beyond our solar system, _is this_ , in fact, the kind of thing we will discover out there? Plasma energy life forms that can read our minds an assume forms thusly? Or, will we encounter a universe governed by the laws of chemistry and physics, but nothing more animated and "magical", like we imagine in shows like this? Will places beyond our Earth be "just another place"?

[@creatip123]

@@TheNoiseySpectator depends on how wide, or how narrow you want to set your mind's horizon. Assuming you're a trekkie, you must remember the (sometimes overused) quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke. Imagine going to sir Isaac Newton, saying "matters are another form of energy". He will either laugh at you, or have you arrested for mocking him. And yet here we are, with Einstein's famous "E=mc²" equation. Better yet, imagine going to 17th century Salem, and showing the people there your smartphone. A little shining device that can take pictures, record video and audio, play songs, play games, etc. How fast can you run before the mob catches you and hang you for "practicing the dark art"? What we consider as common physics, technology, and chemical knowledge, they (people in the past) consider as magic. Who are we to say it won't happen to us? What we consider magic now, is common physics knowledge in the future?

[@leechrec]

Picard went from "Bitch what did you say?" to "I see now. Let me explain the situation so you may understand better."

[@MagnusGugilusVugilus]

Picard’s greatest advisory: a child!

[@jackdorward8636]

“If you wanna be friends I’d like that very much” “naaah I’m good...” 😂😂

[@kadindarklord]

Looks like Lt Furlong has a daughter too. 😀

[@nedimsisic2370]

kadindarklord Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed this. Also, now I realize thats why he seemed so familiar when I saw him in the Borg interactive movie.

[@Cjnw]

If he has five, that's a whole kilometer; eight, that's a whole mile! 😛

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Isabella reminds me a lot of "Sysperia" from "Voyager", with that ruthless, cold rage.

[@pigpig252]

god, TNG is such a comfy show

[@F40PH-2CAT]

"I'm a role model"

[@peterburke1709]

No wonder Picard don't feel comfortable having kids on the ship with Wesley being the only exception

[@hardwirecars]

im just gonna jet without saying goodbye ya know things best friends do lol

[@kingpin6989]

1:54 alien's like NOPE!

[@grandmastere2444]

Wait a minute that one starfleet officer died at wolf 359

[@Shiirow]

the conflict is averted with nary a phaser, torpedo or lens flare in sight.

[@omnientertainment5852]

I see what you did there

[@ThePathStrider]

Another glowing ball thing. Is this the kind that make tricorders with the purple stripe, or the ones that impregnate the Ship's Councillor?

[@Stogie2112]

Isabella turns into red energy ball and floats away. Clara: "Does this mean I'm de-friended?"

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

"goes to update facebook status"

[@brucejenner4800]

I still see why the producers felt that the glowing orbs of intelligence had to 'ascend' out if the vicinity? Why not through the floor, or the turbo toilet?

[@kinggimped]

I remember watching this scene as a child and thinking "Well damn""

[@bbenjoe]

- Please don't hurt us! If you still want to be my best friend, I'd like that very much! - 'kay, bye.

[@ediceberg1200]

Jean Luc to my office please ....

[@dightonazpeitia4350]

Kirk would have just drop kicked the damn thing.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

Kirk also believed in diplomacy and creating bridges to other life forms. There were just a lot of aliens out there with harmful intentions.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

@@KingoftheJuice18 Kirk was also the very first person to meet an extra-terrestrial, and f**k it. Everywhere he goes people say "There goes that dude who screwed an alien."

[@KingoftheJuice18]

​@@lindenstromberg6859 "To boldly go where no man has gone before...."

[@astercaster9522]

There is merit to leaders that can win wars with words.

[@whiteknightcat]

If the alien had been an adult, Kirk would have ... shown her ... about the ... concept ... of ... love.

[@wyqtor]

In this episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard travels back in time to the the 22nd century and meets a young Michael Burnham.

[@omnientertainment5852]

Damn

[@bigoldinosaur]

This scary angry girl was in “Ernest Scared Stupid.”

[@franzhaas6889]

I LOVE ACTION LIKE THE NEXT GUY. BUT POWERFUL DIALOGUE CAN BE JUST AS EXCITING. I MISS OLD TREK.

[@TheKrensada]

YES. I AGREE. THERE ARE MORE CEREBRAL WAYS YO ENTERTAIN THAN WITH BLIND ACTION.

[@thefuppits]

Energy entities, always leave by going "up", through the ceilings or upper part of the bulkheads. How come they never go "down" through the floor?

[@rainlemon]

I guess the writers were more focused on the thought provoking speeches, and the fun resolutions. Otherwise Picard would have just said " fuck off you orb! " Shot it * Lense flair, lense flair * It dead, girl saved Emotions And then you can see it fall to the ground

[@thefuppits]

@@rainlemon or Worf could have growled at it, eaten it, and shat it out for it to be purged from the black water tanks at some point

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Yes, I also think you are getting so hung up on a minor detail that you are missing the larger point. But, if you have looked inside enough real space crafts, like the Space Shuttles, and other manned crafts, You will find it easy to imagine the Enterprise inside is laid out so no matter where you are, the bottom of your feet are facing deeper into the ship, and your head is always pointing toward the outside, or "top" of the ship. Their gravity projectors are probably at the very center, core of the ship. ...both in the main drive section and in the saucer section.

[@thefuppits]

@@TheNoiseySpectator , not sure there's any getting "hung up" going on. It was just a passing comment. That aside, the gravity generators in Star Trek, are built into the floor plating, rather, there are conduits, running through the floor plating, that distribute the gravity from various gravity generators located throughout the ship. Indeed, in Star Trek, the term "gravity plating" is a thing, where we can assume that applies to the floors - not walls nor ceilings, nor in any way "all around". With that said, why would a not corporeal being, be affected by gravity? And, to my point, care about the concept of "up".

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

@@thefuppits Well that's the point; "Up" would be more outward, to the exterior of the ship.

[@chopstx4u207]

Kid: Still wanna be my best friend Alien: deuces

[@animesavedmylife3648]

School taught me I'm not allowed to report sex crimes, and it's okay to make fun of those of us that are disabled.

[@headrockbeats]

Girl: "If you still want to be my best friend, I'd like that very much." Alien: "F*** OFF, I was just interested in messing with your ship."

[@tarvoc746]

"It must seem terribly... unfair and restrictive to you." - Another reason why you don't want children to grow up on this kind of starship.

[@aslarnblackfyre5126]

Sisko would have just blasted the damn thing

[@mmjahink]

@@aslarnblackfyre5126 Sisko isn't some kind of violent psychopath, despite some of the shady things he's done. He certainly would have looked for another way long before he considered violence.

[@ilikelobsters.2376]

Idk why but she reminds me of the other caretaker in Voyager

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

"Sysperia". I agreed. She projects that same Cold, ruthless viciousness!

[@margotrosendorn6371]

A pity Picard never had any children, he would have been an interesting parent

[@IN-tm8mw]

same.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Some of us choose to contribute to Humanity in other ways. We even find those ways are broader reaching than just what could be done with one person at a time. ☺️

[@pennygadget7328]

In a way, he did and was. My own father was a subpar parent, and has damaged many lives over the course of his, but every week I got to see Picard and learn from him He showed me how understanding was a virtue and empathy was a strength, that caring didn't make you weak and that discussion could take the place of force in disarming a tense situation. He was a father to many and a role model to many more and this fictional man shaped me in ways a "real" father could only hope to achieve

[@ectogambit]

I'm pretty sure thats August from Third Rock from the Sun.

[@HasturYellowSign]

An important message for today’s children

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

"Today's"?

[@NathansHVAC]

Can't spank a glowing orb

[@milamberyt]

1:54 *explodes the Enterprise*

[@seanmc7128]

Well I guess she didn't want to be friends after all.

[@mohamedagrama8823]

There shouldn't be rules, there should be supervised freedom of experience