Involved In A Conspiracy

Star Trek · The Next Generation · s05e03 · Ensign Ro
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[@alternavent]

Watching this stuff never gets old for me… some 30 years later and still better than most modern programming.

[@rowlandbuck2703]

It’s interesting how you go through life and gain experiences, and your perspective on these episodes changes and gets deeper. I was a teenager in high school when TNG ran, but I enjoy the show even more as I get older. Especially TOS. Kids can watch it as I did, but you don’t truly understand it until you’re an adult.

[@arashkamangir331]

Wait, you think this is better than Star Trek Discovery?? 😂

[@Aerojet01]

When this was aired during 80's/90's, we were spoilt with the best TV shows and we didn't realise how good we had it.

[@danielmarkle9000]

It just goes to show you just how great of a show TNG really was.

[@lawnmowermanTX]

At one point, Captain Ro Laren would command her own Nebula Class ship has a fitting end.. I didn’t like her as Admiral Cain in the BSG Reboot. A Bajoran Captain With her own show? Nice!

[@dasstu]

"If you do not withdraw, we will take great offence!" Worf: Looks like we're killing Cardassians, today.

[@Diablo_Himself]

"Perhaps today IS a good day to die...PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!"

[@desgowlron5010]

@@Diablo_Himself "Tough little ship..!"

[@jayman105]

Cardassian Gul: "You have one hour to withdraw!" Picard. "Yo. Contact Gul Macet, ask him how easy it was for me to disable his ship, dawg."

[@newdefsys]

Picard speaks like a man who already knows the answers to the questions he is asking.

[@Locutus]

Of course he knows. He is The Picard. He is Locutus of Borg.

[@Paveway-chan]

Picard playing stupid to the Cardassians never gets old for me :D

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

You'd really think they'd be smart enough to pick up on it eventually. 😂

[@danieldickson8591]

@@benjaminoechsli1941I'm pretty sure this Gul did pick up on it right away. They're both going through the forms of diplomacy, so their words can never be claimed as a provocation for more extreme action.

[@namal007]

I love Worf's look like a German Shepherd waiting on its owners command to fire phasers 😂

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

"C'mon, I've been such a good boy, let me have a treat!"

[@logicplague2077]

"The Federation thinks that it can solve every problem with a treaty, but out here, on the frontier a treaty is just a piece of paper." - Cal Hudson

[@desgowlron5010]

"Damn it, Cal. I'm on your side." "You've got a funny way of showing it, Ben." 😂

[@CombatIneffective]

I always loved the look of the Cardassian Galor class starships. So menacing looking when they angle in for an intercept.

[@rowlandbuck2703]

And underestimated. When Cardassia betrayed the dominion, those ships are seen destroying the Dominion ships the Valiant tried to destroy in 1 or 2 shots.

[@ffnbbq]

​@@rowlandbuck2703 Eh, I think their poor rep is deserved. They were completely outclassed by the Enterprise and the Phoenix in their first appearance, and even the more powerful Keldon was absolutely no match for the Defiant.

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

In this clip, they looked to me like the Destiny from Stargate Universe, but flying backwards and themed orange instead of blue. (Of course, TNG was far earlier than SGU, but it makes me wonder if the Cardassian designs inspired the Destiny in any way.)

[@danieldickson8591]

@@ffnbbq That they were, but under the Dominion their combat capabilities were significantly upgraded.

[@stevenhenry5267]

😂 Attack of the killer lobster tails.

[@ZantherStone]

I love Picard’s nervous finger scratching that he does. Patrick Steward is really letting himself feel the anxiety of the scene.

[@doublebanana-de3dt]

Thanks for pointing that out - I didnt notice until it now it adds to the power of the scene!

[@ennabennab8061]

Picard even trolls like a boss... Good times

[@OptimusWombat]

I hadn't thought about this before, but it's interesting that Ro is already serving as a bridge officer on the flagship despite her past disgrace. Although from a story standpoint it's a good way to keep her in the action.

[@JonesNate]

I've always liked Picard's power play in this episode. Once he had all the information, he knew exactly what he was doing.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

It also reminds me of the time where he had to square off against the Romulans but had 2 or 3 cloaked klingon birds of prey as backup

[@TheZetaKai]

And the real(politik) plot is revealed: the admiral assigned Ro to brink out Orta with the promise of weapons, so that he could be killed by the Cardassians, probably as a favor in exchange for concessions in the next round of negotiations with the Federation. A tangled web of dirty dealings, and very fitting for what we later see with Cardassian plots and culture. And unfortunately, it's not unheard of for a Starfleet admiral to betray the core ideals of the Federation for the sake of political expediency, much to our dismay.

[@PuppetierMaster]

wasn't there a war about stuff like that later on?

[@evm6177]

Right well, it all makes sense now!Bajorans = The Taliban Starfleet / Admiral = American Military + Western weapons manufacturers.. (AKA Conspirators) Brilliant! 😎👍👍

[@DrownedInExile]

(Cough cough) Admiral Jameson much?

[@LizardOnAMushroom2358]

This aired long before those events...

[@willcal2738]

"what kind of terrorists would use a ship that could only do half impulse?" " if you knew it well, how has it escaped you before?" liars lol

[@TheCormTube]

Car-day-sian. This early Cardassian makeup made the Gul look like his face was a little bit melty.

[@OptimusWombat]

The Bajoran look wasn't quite there yet either.

[@RazaTheMaza]

Ah sure a good old conspiracy is fun to be involved with

[@fivestar5897]

seems as though every Flag Officer in Starfleet is a complete and total tool, and so we get to enjoy wonderful Picard speeches like the one that follows in this episode

[@calanon534]

Ross was a stand-up guy. He may have had to deal with S31 on occasion, but I will defend his overall integrity. Adm. Paris was another good one - harsh on his son, but a good leader. Commodore Mendez from TOS is another decent officer. There've been some bad admirals and other flag officers in Starfleet, but there've been plenty of good, or at least decent, ones as well.

[@nevadahamaker7149]

Riker: What's the closest we come to the Cardassian border on our current heading to Valo III? Ro: 13,400 kilometers, sir. In the vastness of space, 13.4k km is barely a rounding error. It's a bit larger than the diameter of the Earth. I know they wanted to imply that they were close but that's effectively on top of it.

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Perfectly reasonable, then. The question becomes, why are they flying so darn close!? xD

[@taopilot2669]

Still wearing those old brown Cardassian uniforms, but at least they got rid of the weird masks.

[@Brew78]

Huh.. I've never been online during an upload session. So much suspense waiting for the next clip!

[@PhoenixFury-fu5qn]

how will it end, i must know!

[@oxgoth]

Same. Loving it. 👍

[@ckok7792]

They really did a good job in the whole Star Trek universe in making the ships of different worlds and cultures look different but similar to the world and culture they are from.

[@EhrenLoudermilk]

Captain got threatened, Wharf bristled with anger. Great acting

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

Worf makes dog growling sounds. Let me at 'em, sir. Not, I think, today.

[@FromMyBrain]

The proto cardassians are fascinating... they really got it right what parts of the culture to raise up. Such monumental effort made towards civil discourse... Hi yes this is the culmination of a multi month long plot of the obsidian order to influence a starfleet admiral into maneuvering all the chess pieces on the board exactly how we wanted and this is checkmate... erm "it is a complaint from your cardassian neighbors"

[@FromMyBrain]

even if the idea of a cardassian militia is a contradiction in terms...

[@BPond7]

The title should have been, “You have one hour to withdraw.” 🖖😀

[@danielmarkle9000]

I’d love to see a spin off with riker as captain.

[@Locutus]

He is semi retired in new serials, at least Picard anyway. They are best giving him some episodes in Lower Decks, Prodigy or Picard.

[@karlsmith2570]

There was a series of novels that had him and Troi on the USS Titan, with Riker as the Captain

[@inwyrdn3691]

"We intend to destroy it." That's a refreshing, if unusual, level of honesty for Cardassians.

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

The only thing I didn't like was the border clearly going through a single star system. A few tens of thousands of km in space is just so so tiny.

[@jonro1091]

That smile at ‘how can we help you’, even without context you can see Picard knows exactly what’s up.

[@kerryedavis]

This was some good drama etc, but why would the Cardassian border be WITHIN any star/solar system? That would mean at least some of the planets would be moving into and out of Cardassian space over time. Meanwhile there's probably light-years between solar systems.

[@zachmoyer1849]

well the ship they were escorting might be going to within the Cardassian borders but when this exchange happend they were out of it since he said they have no jurisdiction here it and since they had a treaty they likely could enter cardassian territory freely.

[@kerryedavis]

@@zachmoyer1849 but they were going from one planet to another planet within the same system.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

My guess it may have been a disputed star system that was undergoing treaty negotiations and so something interim was formed with borders carved out within star systems itself. Recall it was not longer after before the "final" treaty was rolled out that lead to the Maquis situation.

[@kerryedavis]

@@oldtwinsna8347 Uhh... what? You realize that by having boundaries crossing orbits that some planets would be within and outside of those boundaries at different times in their orbits? And that distance they specified is NOTHING.

[@mistermonologue2442]

The ship does not have visual capabilities?!?!??? How does that even happen with a space traveling humanoid species?

[@ColumbiaB]

During construction of the vessel, they’d gotten a great deal on remaindered Radio Shack communications equipment . . . from the early 1990s.

[@ColumbiaB]

@@breadtoast1036 - By “visual capabilities”, mistermonologue2442 was clearly not taking that dialog to mean that the Bajoran ship was devoid of windows, or exterior video monitors, and thus its crew could not view their surroundings. Instead, Worf was referring to their communications systems, which were audio only, not extending to visual images of the participants. In other words, Zoom technology had not yet reached Bajor.

[@mistermonologue2442]

@@breadtoast1036 "zero optical sightlines"? I'm not talking about a window just a video feed and even our real life craft have those.

[@mattryan7124]

Because the Cardassians had stripped the Bajorans of nearly everything usable during the occupation. So the Bajoran ships and settlements were all pieced together from what they could find

[@mistermonologue2442]

@@mattryan7124 I'm just saying even entry-level starcraft would have visual capabilities. We find out it was un-maned but if the cardasians were listening in then the "no visual communication" would have been a major heads up that something wasn't right.

[@2Scribble]

3:05 - Ah - yes - CarDAY-SEA-ans xD

[@girlgarde]

The Cardassian Gul's head and face looks somewhat deformed. Someone clearly screwed up in the makeup department.

[@JWMcLay]

They certainly improved the make up in later episodes, it was similar situation when the Ferengi were introduced I reckon

[@Dowlphin]

Geez, your beauty standards. 😏

[@argiebarge7955]

Argies log, supplemental. Some shit is going on, I think I'm really drunk but havent fallen over yet.

[@xx3868]

"audio only" sounds tense but actually its gets the designers out of coming up with another bridge and alien costumes and all that makeup. TNG rocks!!

[@WUZLE]

Galor class ships look better with the lights on the front than without.

[@terra249594372]

I just want a moment where they see Picard on the screen and basically go, 'ah crap, HIM'😅

[@stratfordbaby]

3:03 Those Car DAY ssians.

[@hmmmmm6056]

Half Impulse: 97,026 kilometers per second

[@TheBlueGuard]

Gotta love the absolute lack of scale. 13,400 KM from the Cardassian border? My guys, that's slightly more than the width of the Earth. They're one Earth width and change away from the border. And before someone jumps in and says "but that makes sense since blah blah blah"? This mangling of the scale of space is a constant feature.

[@Diablo_Himself]

That WAS a threat.

[@YardworkWithJohn]

I don't know how far away the planet is that they are going to, HOWEVER food for thought: At half impulse, it would take a spaceship 36 years to travel from earth, to the nearest star system.

[@briankoogler3494]

“GOOD LORD, DIDN’T ANYONE HERE have a ship in a bottle as a child?” “I did, Captain”. “THANK YOU”

[@Comrade2261]

I thought it said kardashian virus 🤣 which it is lol.

[@HellOnWheel]

13,000 km is about the diameter of Earth.

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

3:40 I would've asked, "Please excuse my natural curiosity, but, jf it is so well known, how has it managed to survive for so long?" But I suppose that would not be very politic.

[@andyb3522]

"the ship does not have visual capabilities" its a frickin spaceship. why in the world would they not have a screen... xD

[@TheZetaKai]

The Cardassian border is 13,400 kilometers away?! That's barely more than the diameter of Earth, which is NOTHING when compared to the vastness of space. Science fiction writers have absolutely no sense of scale, especially on television.

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

The Enterprise and the Bajoran vessel had done a bit of traveling before that assessment was made. Suggesting that the actual distance may be greater than 13,400 km.

[@TheZetaKai]

@@aggressiveattitudeera887 Most of the episode takes place within a single planetary system, and the Bajoran ships are explicitly without warp drive. Look at any given map of the Solar System that is to scale; I doubt that you'll find one where 13,400 kilometers is more than a few pixels wide. Space is really, really, really, REALLY big.

[@UndeadGhostGirl]

@@TheZetaKai “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@jerseykaari]

"“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” D. Adams

[@dac314]

They should keep shorthand guides with approximate distances for things to sound believable at. And the effective range of ST weaponry and scale are silly anyways.

[@nnthayer]

3:05 Car-day-ssian

[@pterodactylptroll]

Couldn't they tractor that ship to go faster than half impulse?

[@mattryan7124]

Usually no, that would likely damage the ship being tractored.

[@Raziel236]

Why didn't they just tow them with the tractor beam? Surely they could have got more than half impulse.

[@guitarvocs]

3:06 Car DACE ian? Hmmmm.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

@4:21 Worf: I'm a Klingon warrior! Meet me on the battlefield and I'll teach you about being offended. Wait - wait, until I'm off the Enterprise as there's a curse here that causes me to get whooped with ease. But once I move off this ship it will be a good day to die.

[@pauldockree9915]

The Kardashians? Oopsie

[@pauldockree9915]

Ensign Ro

[@valkhorn]

People really love to keep up with the Cardassians.

[@jackfox5738]

13k kilmeters is literally NOTHING in space

[@upandaljm]

At the end of these kind of clips you should play the old have gun Will travel music.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Michelle forbes, xxx

[@drgonzo305]

This was before special effects got good enough and more importantly cheap enough to carry the show so they had to rely on story and performances to carry a show.

[@pauldockree9915]

Cliff Potts?

[@Italian69Boi]

wtf why does the view screen show the admiral looking over to the side. is it a hologram? they do this alot in TNG i mean thats stupid it should show him looking at the camera. oh voyager does it too when doctor calls to bridge from sickbay soooo annoying he looks to the side as if he is there in person which looks so horrible to me

[@floofyan6727]

Car... cardaysian?

[@peeweeson]

wouldn't the small ship make it to its destination in an hour?

[@Mackinstyle]

Was that Cardassian's 8 hours of makeup starting to melt and fall off his face and they just kinda had to rush through with it?

[@detsalb5789]

Couldn't the enterprise tractor the ship and go faster then half

[@ricosauve5]

Nope because the writers job is to have drama lol

[@Tiberion]

It could also be that the ship is not designed for a higher speed and the hull would be damaged if you suggested it

[@supersaiyankaine6469]

People that say Star Trek is boring clearly never watched the show and need to eat more beans. 😂

[@willcal2738]

How could such a slow ship commit crimes and get away

[@neutrino78x]

Did they just say they're going from one star to another, at half the speed of light, and it will only take a few minutes? Someone's math is off lol. If it's in the same solar system it would make more sense...but then, we understand that ST and SW are far from Hard SF. 🙂

[@garywalker5000]

if picards dead body was stolen is onscreen

[@josephvikre8328]

They can travel in space and don’t have visual capabilities?

[@codyclark8533]

wait a starship that doesnt have visual communication come on now!!!

[@codyclark8533]

we have that on out phones lol

[@mattryan7124]

One that’s been pieced together from scraps because of the Cardassian Occupation?

[@oldtwinsna8347]

It's a terrorist ship. They would put that electrical tape right over the camera lens.

[@mytube650]

3:04 CardAYsian

[@petejones879]

Ensign Ro is also very hot.. You missed that bit out Captain Picard

[@retluoc]

Invaluable means valuable? What kind of language is this? It's like flammable and inflammable 🤣

[@Dowlphin]

It makes sense, since it means it is so precious that money cannot compensate for it. It cannot be valued. It is beyond such. If something is worthless, that implies it can be valued.

[@Kyoto_Ed]

@@Dowlphin so the mona lisa isn't valuable?

[@ColumbiaB]

It is confusing, but the meaning of some words like “inflammable” reflects that the prefix “in-“ is a homophone that can represent either one of two unrelated grammatical components. The first is a negation of the word to which it is affixed, as in “incapable” (meaning “not capable”, of course). The second grammatical component that “in-“ represents is, in contrast, an •intensifier•. Thus, in the word “inflammable”, the prefix does not negate the meaning of the root word, but emphasizes it. These conflicting meanings of a sound-alike prefix are a historical artifact reflecting the ad hoc development of natural languages: unlike, say, a computer programing language, natural languages are not systematically designed so that their symbolic components and grammar have absolutely specific, unambiguous meanings and functions. As it happens, though, the potentially confusing elements of the word “inflammable” create a real safety risk, in the possibility that some people encountering the word may erroneously think it means, “not able to burn". For this reason, since the mid-twentieth century safety advisories and warning signs in English have increasingly avoided that word, using simply, “flammable” (or, for example, “fire hazard”), to indicate any risk of fire or burning. The word “invaluable”, in contrast, may represent a different case, in which the prefix •is• used in its negative sense, but to a different effect than creating a meaning corresponding to “no value”. In “invaluable”, what is implied is, instead, that the thing under consideration is so precious that a specific valuation cannot be determined or applied. It conveys the sense of, “beyond value”.

[@lawnmowermanTX]

I… Love…Cardassian Beans!!! Doogy Doo!! 🥰

[@NickCBax]

All this complaining about neighbors… don’t they realize fences make good neighbors?

[@nickromanthefencer]

Real talk: that cardassian’s face is real fucked up lmfao

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

4th!

[@mike8631]

First!

[@richardjohnson455]

@mike8631: Just an interested 3rd party to your post, and lifelong ST:TNG, etc. fan. Not trolling anyone, just need understanding. Why do you and others rush to be the 1st Reply post to any given YT video upload? Is there a prize or some sort of galactic-level bragging rights to being 1st the most? Not a criticism, just my mystified interest - please explain. Many thanks, Dr. J

[@JeffreyTappan-bb8rr]

Most modern programming sucks anyway.

[@dougkoontz1752]

I don't like your into and ending/outtakes. They are about annoying. FYI.