I Was Ready To Blow It Up

Star Trek The Next Generation s03e08 The Price
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[@kevinshaw8889]

I laugh every time Riker congratulates him on winning the rights to the wormhole; he's such a dick in that moment, but it's perfect.

[@frankstyles5101]

and well deserved. They say you can't win 'em all and sometimes that's a good thing as we saw here.

[@kishascape]

I mean the Devanooni guy is such a fuccboi it’s well deserved. Major Chomo vibes from him.

[@sorinrobinson9237]

I take the risks. Said like someone who just lost everything but still wants to look strong. Sometimes the stronger point is not taking the risk.

[@rickdeckard1075]

@@sorinrobinson9237 no he took the risk BEFORE knowing the outcome. you are ARGUABLY OVERRATED.

[@rickdeckard1075]

@@kishascape none of that redditspeak gibberish is meangful.

[@DrownedInExile]

A Ferengi Damon, taking the first offer in a negotiation? Fair or not, no reflexive counter-offer demanding more? No greed? Shouldn't need to be an empath to recognize something isn't right!

[@CoPoint]

Even if the Betazoids can't read the Ferengi's thoughts - and even if you're not telepathic/empathic at all - yes, any psychologist worth their salt should have their alarm bells ringing like heck at that point 😂...

[@rnash999]

Rule 10: Greed is eternal.

[@vexxama]

True. Remember quark selling his bar to his brother? He was disgusted at himself for agreeing to a fair valuation of his property that satisfies both parties. It was perfectly rational, each side benefited and no one lost out. But he didn’t make the maximum amount of profit. Just because something was fair and reasonable does not mean it will be accepted

[@cryofist]

when they show up first wasnt data the one who said they operate on "buyer beware"? your right dead giveaway that they instantly said it was a fair offer

[@adrianmizen5070]

In an earlier episode (Menage a Troi) it is established that Betazoids can't sense Ferengi emotions because of their brain structure being so different. So Troi's claim of not sensing tension in the Ferengi may be literally true, but misleading since she wouldn't sense it even if it were there.

[@YeoYeo32]

And thus we get the basis for a story that Voyager would later pick up

[@longWriter]

I'm glad they did. When a franchise leaves plot threads that future stories can pick up, it tends to make things better when they do get picked up!

[@DrownedInExile]

A terrible episode of Voyager.

[@longWriter]

@@DrownedInExile I remember the Ferengi as being ineffectual villains as clumsy as little kids' cartoon villains. I thought it was funny at the time.

[@michaelvedal1907]

@@DrownedInExile It was actually a rather good one, and at least that thread was resolved.

[@Barbutt]

Yes! The Delta Quadrant’s most lucrative inhabitants! I’ll need review.

[@rhoadesjerry9696]

Never try to run a con in the presence of an empath.

[@nagihangot6133]

Her mother couldn't sense Ferengi feelings, how could she as a half-human? I hate when they do things like this.

[@mfeltes]

@@nagihangot6133 Babylon 5 thought this through a bit more... hiring someone with psychic powers as a third party during business negotiations is standard operating procedure in that world.

[@frankstyles5101]

or a Khan in the presence of a Kirk. LOL

[@stevengalloway8052]

😔 Especially when you have no beans... 😆

[@user-tp7gy4dj4l]

Finally Troi earns her keep!

[@METATRONmusic]

"I take the risks, Mister Riker, and I stand by my agreements." "But what did it cost you, Ral?" "Beans, lots of beans, oh yeah."

[@Dowlphin]

It's like the lazors meme.

[@Aethgeir]

Man, the actor that played Ral sure does "smarmy" really well!

[@scotts148]

It’s Lloyd Braun!

[@akondar]

I love how they call it worthless. Assuming this end of the wormhole remains stable for a significant amount of time or permanently they could still drop communication and sensor probes through for data collection, long term study and communications access. It would have been a perfect acquisition for the research centered species.

[@WhatKindOfNameNow]

Well, the second part of your assumption (the "local" end of the wormhole staying stable permanently) is addressed in the clip itself. It will eventually become unstable on both ends. And yeah, it might still be worth something for sending probes and getting data out of, but relative to a stable means of quick transit to the Delta Quadrant, it's worthless.

[@augustday9483]

​@@WhatKindOfNameNow It's probably for the best anyways, since we later discover that the delta quadrant is where Borg space is. If this really was a stable wormhole, it would have become yet another route from which the Borg could have invaded the alpha quadrant.

[@Ge1Ri4]

Even the probes would be useless because it would take decades for even subspace transmissions to reach the alpha quadrant, as anyone who followed the Voyager series knows.

[@ruscopcoltrain]

“Why can’t you negotiate wormhole access like Lloyd Braun?” - Estelle Costanza

[@massinakmin8340]

George Likes the Bananas!!!!

[@anthonylegore1517]

Serenity now!

[@retluoc]

Serenity NOW, insanity later 😆 HOOCHIE MAMA!!!

[@stormthrush37]

LMAO! I knew this guy looked familiar but I couldn't place it!

[@retluoc]

I always liked Matt. His biggest role was playing Lasard's nephew in Police Academy 5 (and the rest). Now he's in a popular insurance commercial...I forget which company.

[@djordan4648]

Things never do work out for Lloyd Braun! George will be pleased

[@stormthrush37]

LMAO I knew he looked familiar from somewhere!!

[@michaelnguyen823]

Picard's "Screen off!" had many shades of "Shut up, Wesley."

[@rmurphy440m]

"It was as if you were performing a scene for all of us". Well, he should be good at it, after all the practice he had on "Badge of Honor".

[@JamesCarmichael]

Daimon reminds me of a kid that gets a toy for Christmas. It's half the size he was expecting, doesn't do anything the adverts said it would and has already taken it out of the box so it can't be returned, yet he still pretends he likes it in front of everyone else.

[@FallenEpic]

"I take the risks, Mister Riker, and I stand by my agreements." Such bold words from a man who pledges someone else's money. Edit: Some of you might need to calm down.

[@thewewguy8t88]

So true lol but I also love how riker just rubbed it in that guys face.

[@Drknow1984]

So he is pretty much a space stock broker, got it.

[@Crispy_Bee]

also: "It's *COMMANDER* Riker for you."

[@theprogram863]

@@Drknow1984 Yes, or a lawyer, or a diplomat, or a spokesman. Stock brokers and those whose money they invest are an example of what's called a principal/agent relationship, which manifests in all kinds of different situations. Just as Ral has been gambling with the money of the Chrysalians, a diplomat gambles with the lives of their people, especially their soldiers. You get a few examples of this in DS9 with the relationship between the Jem Ha'dar soldiers and the Vorta negotiators who often command them.

[@thewewguy8t88]

@@theprogram863 very true votra are tricky compared to jem'hadar.

[@iamme453]

Interesting that Troi could sense the Ferengi emotions. In later episodes, Betazoids couldn't read Ferengi.

[@monkeyman767]

Thank you Bean Trek for these clips, perfect watching length, great scenes too for giving the gist of the story

[@tjwparso]

You're welcome :)

[@davidmlandreth]

It figures that the wormhole Llyod Braun found would turn out to have problems. Stability now, Instability later.

[@FRODIII]

Was probably made in china!

[@foxdavion6865]

Fun fact, Voyager stumbles on this very Wormhole in the Delta Quadrant at the end of Season 1, but it is in the process of collapsing, so they send messages through it instead. This is how Starfleet came to be aware of their fate.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

No it's a different wormhole that you're talking about. However they actually DO find this one but those 2 Ferengi completely destabilize it while trying to escape and it causes both ends of the wormhole to start jumping all over the place

[@deepcow]

I loved how they used this in The Voyager Series.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

I like that the two Ferangi reappeared in Voyager.

[@joshuadesautels]

"I was tense! I strongly protest--!" "Screen off!"

[@AvangionQ]

Trek's Betazoids often annoyed me ... sometimes, they could read Ferengi's minds, other times they couldn't

[@JimmyCerra]

It was a recon from DS9 that Betazoids can't read Ferengi minds.

[@develynseether4426]

Emotions are not minds. It's like sensing tension in the air. Betazoids can't detect deception, truth, etc from a Ferengi but the lack of a certain emotion especially something like tension or anger can be.

[@theprogram863]

@@develynseether4426 Yeah it's a writing inconsistency but it's my headcanon that Troi's empathy can sometimes catch emotions from minds that are protected against full-on telepathy. It may also have been a bluff stemming from empathy's rarity in the federation, because Ral couldn't call her on not knowing Ferengi emotions without revealing that he knows this because he has the same empathic ability. Either way, he tips his hand and reveals his own deception.

[@TJBUSMC1973]

It was established in TNG that they were immune to telepathy. But they were not immune to empathy.

[@lasarith2]

If I remember … spoilers He was in cahoots with the ferengi so he knew what would happen .

[@spikedpsycho2383]

"It's a dry well captain... NO beans"

[@CesTorLop]

1:55 Piccard: "Screen Off!" We all know what he meant . ;)

[@stratfordbaby]

McCoy is one handsome devil.

[@dfire351]

I thought that lady would start whinnying and galloping around. 😂

[@BillinHungary]

Propr to the actor playing Ral - sometimes a guest star can help elevate an episode, and he really makes you despise him in under 45 minutes.. not bad

[@buckwheat2890]

I agree. He played a slimeball to perfection. Especially when dragging Deanna into the fray. I’ve known a couple guys like this and it’s frustrating to see what they get away with almost every time.

[@theprogram863]

Yeah I agree. When it came to human characters who embodied ideologies or jobs which the writers didn't approve of, the TNG writers weren't shy about making the characters unvarnished villains. I think it was a writing mistake, but the actor really did his job well. He was someone you really loathe but still believable that Troi fell for him in the backstory.

[@TheZetaKai]

Yes, he did a great job at being a nuanced and subtle bastard. Most of his actions were not especially scummy (the scene in Ten-Forward with Riker notwithstanding), and he made some good points in his debate with Troi over dinner, but everything that he did was flavored with oily manipulative overtones. He gave a great performance, and made a memorable antagonist.

[@HariSeldon913]

That's nothing. He makes me despise him in a matter of seconds in his Hartford Insurance tv ads.

[@thecursor1]

That actor has played some of the most wonderful scumbags in tv history.

[@YardworkWithJohn]

AND just like that, the concept for Star Trek Voyager was born.

[@tekkensentai]

I just noticed the magical Trevor reference at the end. Very nice.

[@koshi6505]

Even if it's unstable, it would still be an excellent way of seeding the galaxy with probes.

[@SiXiam]

It was the same with the warp 10 shuttle. Even if you can't send people it would be an amazing probe and cargo delivery vessel.

[@Bealzbob]

Ral was one of the smarmiest most punchable characters I can remember.

[@1967dlasd]

Oh yes he was!

[@wrongway1100]

That actor plays a different character in Babylon 5, I think.

[@compmanio36]

@@wrongway1100 Mr Morden. Equally as smarmy and dislikeable but also creepy. Played his roles well.

[@Ryan_Winter]

All of Riker's rivals in these negotiations were cartoonishly villainous clowns. That's how TNG made its protagonists look good.

[@foxymetroid]

@@Ryan_Winter To be fair, Riker would probably come off as a cartoonishly villainous clown if they simply focused on the point of view of one of the other parties.

[@tom_something]

"Chysalians" makes me think of "Croissan'Wich".

[@DrownedInExile]

Or Chrysalids from Xcom? Yikes!

[@porkcracklins630]

Croissalians? Delicious!

[@SebbeB89]

I just heard "chrys-aliens"... 🤣

[@billnotice9957]

Lloyd Braun would have been a great returning character. Could you imagine if he would have walked on Fajio's ship looking at a frozen data. Simply smiling and telling Fajio. Be careful my friend. Then walking off teleporting away in his shuttle at high warp!

[@laker4life36]

Star Trek TNG. Classic and Iconic.

[@jerrybaker8597]

Even relitvly unstable a wormhole like this would provide unimaginable ground for transportation research

[@moshiach2]

This is what put Lloyd Braun in the nut house.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Who? Is that Lillian Jackson Braun's husband?

[@johntrevy1]

Huh?

[@moshiach2]

He is the same actor who played Lloyd Braun on Seinfeld

[@TrollDecker]

@@TheNoiseySpectator Apparently he's a character in Seinfeld portrayed by Matt McCoy (who played Ral on this episode). Braun had a nervous breakdown after a deal went sour in Seinfeld.

[@TrollDecker]

SLIGHT CORRECTION, it was because he inadvertently ruined his employer's mayoral run.

[@narvelbaltimore5690]

1:51-1:55 Goss got Owned. 😏

[@andyeccentric]

Laforge: "By the way the point of this entire story thread was pointless"

[@videosbyuko]

I WAS TENSE!!!

[@Biaanca5036]

Looks like a younger Steve Carell, just with a few cents deeper voice!

[@kellyrayburn4093]

That's the one thing you can say about Ra'al. He does take responsibility when things go south. Otherwise, he is contemptible.

[@conorsouthby3740]

I’d say I’ve watched maybe 3/4 of tng episodes and I can’t remember anyone coming into the bridge from the left door.

[@cameronsmith1339]

I think their conference room is on the left side, the turbolift is the right side

[@pepe6666]

theres a door at all four corners. i think the front left (when facing from main viewer) is a turbolift. ive only seen it used twice - once when the life support on the bridge failed and another was when there was a phantom enterprise where the doors kept leading into more bridges

[@conorsouthby3740]

@@pepe6666 ya I’m pretty sure the top right was the turbolift, bottom right was Picards ready room, bottom left was like a cupboard or something and top left was, as we’ve now established, the conference room

[@neilwilliams2907]

@@conorsouthby3740 Didn't Warf go from one to the other and back again in that episode with the duplicate Enterprise? The one with that big face entity and them like rats in a maze. I could be wrong.

[@spinningchrysalis4061]

Behind-the-scenes documents established where each doorway went, but some of those places were never seen on screen. To clarify everything, I'll use both shipboard directions and the perspective of a viewer seeing the bridge from the typical angle, at the front of the bridge near the viewscreen. The starboard aft door alcove (at the back of the bridge on the viewer's left) had doors to the observation lounge, which is the conference room we see all the time, and a bathroom that we never saw. The port aft doorway (at the back on the viewer's right) was the most frequently used turbolift. The port fore alcove (in the front on the viewer's right) contained the door to the ready room, which we saw all the time, and a door to another turbolift that was used less often. The starboard fore doorway, (front, viewer's left), which I assume is the one you're referring to, is supposed to lead to an emergency turbolift that connects to the battle bridge. I'm pretty sure it was never seen on screen.

[@wakcedout]

ok never pieced this episode and a voyager one together until now. they left the ferengi in the delta quadrant on this one and later voyager stumbled on them while making their way home. talk about continuity

[@malcolmt7883]

I love how you can fix any Ferengi problem with money.

[@FailSonOfAnarchy]

Rall is the Star Trek Michael Scott. He's not supersticious, but he is a little sticious.

[@andysahs1599]

Matt McCoy who played Ral also was in the Police Academy movies as SGT Nick Lassard .

[@rydrakeesperanza5370]

3:09 Wait, are those the ferengi that appeared in voyager?

[@dariensisko0]

yep

[@smv4usa]

@@dariensisko0 And when Voyager was trying to use it to return home, they screwed it up so BOTH sides were shifting. They just HAD to get their treasure back.

[@naturalcarr9478]

@3:34 And here we have we have the spawning of Voyager.

[@JMUDoc]

"I sense no tension from either of them!" Later in this season, Betazoids can't read Ferengi.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

She probably lied about that part

[@tstahler5420]

I thought Ferengi minds were unreadable.

[@artman2oo3]

Too bad one end of the beans was unstable.

[@vuexiong1625]

I love them Ferengis, they're so funny.

[@tjwparso]

Agreed :)

[@Dowlphin]

@@tjwparso A-greed in deed! 😁

[@grimsnark4849]

Space Michael Scott! He wants people to be afraid of how much they love him.

[@slimj091]

"I take the risks Mr. Riker" Riker: Yeah... But I'll end up winning the last mile.

[@ColumbiaB]

Well, this incident pretty well shot Devinoni Ral’s prospects for future work in the negotiating field. But all for the good, as he was soon to find his calling as the “Badge of Honor” star, Brett Chase!

[@darrennew8211]

Ricker's smirk at the end seems entirely inappropriate given a group of people(?) just got stranded 80 years away. (Unless it was just mechanical probes?)

[@daydodog]

Yep

[@jonathanakehurst4489]

@ 1:50 "Screen Off!!!" 😆

[@mineralin641]

same energy as "Shut up, Wesley!"

[@JimmyCerra]

@@mineralin641 Wesley was right there! 😂

[@leopold7562]

One thing I never understood with TNG is why these one episode characters always looked like they just stepped off the set of Dynasty

[@georgej8254]

Love the clips, It was such a great show. I don't care for the click sound effect in the beginning.

[@tjwparso]

Thanks, it was :) fare enough, I have turned it down a lot since the older uploads but thanks for the feedback.

[@develynseether4426]

I love the click.

[@OhYeaMista]

What a weird thing to complain about.

[@atMacen07]

Yeah I much prefer KZbin channels with dubstep at the intro

[@victorsalisbury3554]

King 🤴🏽

[@rafsolo]

There's something about this character. His looks are plain but something about him stands out. I believe this is part of the actor's acting abilities and the way he carries himself

[@maximman19]

Glad that the Lawyer from Silicon Valley landed on his feet after his prison sentence. Doing pretty well in fact.

[@TheGoldenGear99]

He sounds like the how it’s made guy

[@heartattackjack9349]

This wormhole is unstable. We won't waste time and resources to figure out if we can stabilize it. That would be science, and we don't like to do that.

[@titanhades4331]

Cleary clueless. Data did say both sides would end up unstable and moving. No point in wasting resources. Plus nowhere has it been said that it is even possible to stabilize them to begin with.

[@thewewguy8t88]

Here is a question what would have happened if the wormhole was not worthless would the permier have changed her mind and sided with the federation.

[@StYxXx]

Even with one ende shiftung position the wormhole could be useful. At least for science (send probes through it)

[@tdrewman]

The Ferengis ended up screw the wormhole up in Voyager.

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

The actor who plays Rall looks like so much like Steve Carell. It is clearly not him, but they are still so close!

[@teleportedbreadfor3days]

Holy shit you're right

[@j.m.74]

Good ol' Matt McCoy, also known for playing Sgt. Nick Lassard in Police Academy 5 & 6, as well as a character named Lloyd Braun on the sitcom Seinfeld. Now he's doing AARP / Hartford insurance commercials.

[@westmcgee9320]

He was around well before Carell. “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”, anyone?

[@jamessmyth3952]

So are those the ferengi that showed up in Voyager?

[@an-cx1ho]

Look it's Lloyd Brown

[@NewSocialistEraVideos]

That's what I say every time I go to the bathroom-

[@robertjohnson8938]

That was a great deal

[@michaelmclaughlin261]

That worm hole is the Chinese chewing gum of deep space travel!

[@gunstarhero8028]

Serenity now, insanity later.

[@monkeyman767]

God the early shuttles were just awful looking

[@SWIFTO_SCYTHE]

well good thing later on Voyager made like four delta flyers out of spare warp corps they just happened to have on board EH amirite?

[@TheZetaKai]

It seems that the producers agreed; later shuttles and runabouts were far more attractive. I'd let them off the hook and chalk it up to budgetary issues, but bad design is bad design.

[@Idazmi7]

That's actually a "shuttlepod" - a smaller, less pretty shuttle.

[@monkeyman767]

@@Idazmi7 nah I know, they do refer to it as a "shuttle" all the time in fairness but no I know the real shuttles are bigger (still kinda ugly though hahaha)

[@monkeyman767]

@@SWIFTO_SCYTHE eh the voyager thing can be explained by off screen trade, but how they managed to find the exact same shade of "federation grey" everywhere is beyond me. Would have been cool to see voyager patching different parts of the hull over time so it looked different by the end of the series

[@develynseether4426]

I wouldn't say worthless. Starfleet probes are much more advanced and while the Barzan side is stable Starfleet could use the wormhole to send probes to wherever the other end appears, gathering detailed information on sectors the Federation have little-to-no knowledge of.

[@VoIPPortland]

The police academy guy is so young here.

[@hithere8753]

Annnnd then the Dominion war happened.

[@hotdude1980]

I thought they was in the gamma quadrant and when they came back they said the ferengi is stuck in the delta quadrant 🤔

[@victorsalisbury3554]

How Much Do Coffee Shops Make On average, small coffee shop owners make $60,000-$160,000 , and the coffee industry generates about $70 billion a year in sales

[@adameanglin]

He then went on to represent Pied Piper.

[@NealX_Gaming]

I notice this shuttle doesn't seem to be the larger Galileo class? When were they added?

[@thewewguy8t88]

Those were actually removed for some reason I think.

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

After reading this title I am sorely disappointed at the lack of bathroom jokes in this comment section.

[@JesusFlores-ju3mh]

Is he the same guy that’s the leader of the genetically enhanced society living in a dome? They look incredibly similar.

[@xxxradicaldreamerxxx]

02:55 DS9 Wormhole effect vs. this.......

[@geraldpatterson3903]

If Ral wasn't as vanilla casted role as you could get, I don't know what is.

[@alexthegordonhighlander1159]

Picard: How did you come to all of these “beliefs” counselor? Troi: Well, Ral and I have been sleeping together Captain. Yikes! How terribly unprofessional and unevolved. Kirk would be proud of Troi.

[@foxymetroid]

Proud of a woman for sleeping with a man who was not named "James Tiberius Kirk"? I suppose that's possible, but only after she slept with the captain of the Enterprise "No A, B, C, or D" first.

[@matthewwatkins4938]

I love how DONE Picard is with the Ferengi. SCREEN OFF

[@timobrien2738]

Serenity now… insanity later

[@BigT5]

Is the female alien same actor as the founder leader actor?

[@CoolsBreeze]

200 ly and its already in the delta quadrant? I think they got their distances a little off

[@WarGrowlmon18]

Or the wormhole was already close to the border

[@garethfairclough8715]

Nick Lassard! :V

[@patmcbride9853]

Nice of them to let that lady wear her retainer while making that episode./s

[@ThePeacemaker848]

it's a ball gag with the ball removed.

[@patmcbride9853]

@@ThePeacemaker848 Kinky!

[@j-marie4006]

And so the unlikable bastard gets screwed in the end. A very happy ending indeed.

[@Onizukachan915]

How strange the lady looked at the time, and now 30 years later half the checkout girls look just like that.

[@greggweber9967]

Barsoom? Was it discovered by John Carter?

[@stratfordbaby]

BARZAN.

[@misterlau5246]

That lady needs a better orthodontist

[@AmalgmousProxy]

Imagine being stuck in a vehicle roughly the size of a minivan for, well, the rest of your life or until your food or power runs out.

[@joshualandry3160]

Actually, crashing on a near by planet and being worshiped as gods. At least until some annoying people show up and send them home. By doing that they strand themselves (again) because they couldn't leave well enough alone.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

​@@joshualandry3160Partially true but who knows where the Ferengi actually ended up because they completely destabilized the wormhole on both sides with that trick

[@dirdib69]

Must have been annoying for the alien actor to deal with those things on the corners of her mouth.

[@chrisgraboski9133]

i thought ferengi are immune to telepath and empathy? oh wait...plot armour..

[@WarGrowlmon18]

Or she just lied about that

[@alexiachimciuc3199]

Isn't that the nephew of Lassard?