Is This the Best Season of TNG?

[@OrangeRiver]

Head over to orange-river-merch.myspreadshop.com to grab your T-shirt, backpack, hoodie, or mug today! _Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!_

[@beepboop204]

will you be reviewing the series.... all the way down?

[@ksiaa814]

@@beepboop204 why would he stop?

[@beepboop204]

@@ksiaa814 i just gotta ask if it goes ALL the way

[@ksiaa814]

@@beepboop204 no I get ya. I mean at this point it seems sort of mandatory in my eyes

[@beepboop204]

@@ksiaa814 100% all the way jokes are mandatory

[@villageidiots2041]

I love how Worf always had the most extreme/aggressive option when giving his advice on what to do in any given situation. The episode where they all got amnesia and Worf just assumed he was the captain because of his decorative sash thing was priceless.

[@kaitlyn__L]

His delivery is so strong. “You forget… _I_ am decorated as well.” I also love how Picard’s advice is still better for their situation, even though he’s giving it more deferentially than he usually does.

[@3MenAndALetsPlay]

@@kaitlyn__L I also love how he is essentially an anime tsundere archetype who tries to act tough but is secretly a big ol softy, and keeps adopting kids into his family.

[@SirMarshalHaig]

My father loved that moment. He often siad 'Look, it´s the decorated Worf' when Worf showed up in a scene.

[@Ken-fh4jc]

The episode is Conundrum where they all have amnesia. I don’t mind Worf always giving the tactics option. He’s security chief. It’s his job to give the tactical option.

[@WokeBegone]

Put yourself in that position, with amnesia, and you could easily make the same mistake. It's as logical a surmise as anyone else made in that scene.

[@MrMatthias]

"Family" is one of my favorite episodes of the series. Picard's breakdown after he fights his brother always gets me emotional

[@jazzpunk]

Same here...a much needed breather after The Best Of Both Worlds. I recall watching Family on its debut...my mom is in the room & she asked, "I thought this show was about outer space". :-)

[@lionspawfilmandphoto]

I love that it explores traumatic fallout and long-held resentment, really pulls it all out and lets it breathe.

[@WokeBegone]

Don't get emotional. Did you learn nothing from Spock?

[@L33Reacts]

Season 3 to season 6 is a legendary run.

[@commiecomrade2644]

you'd be missing so many good episodes. Measure of a Man for one. Season 7 has The Pegasus. Plenty of others.

[@L33Reacts]

@@commiecomrade2644 this is true. But S3 to S6 has little to no misses. S2 is great and yet terrible at the same time. S7 was mediocre minus a few episodes like all good things and the Pegasus as you mentioned.

[@glasswhisperer]

I'm doing a full watch though of TNG for the first time, watched voyager multiple times, shocked at how many I haven't actually seen before, had just heard of them. Kinda got bogged down in season 5. Need to get motivated to finish.

[@bigfootwalker5399]

Season 7 is the best season

[@bonghunezhou5051]

​@Bigfootwalker ...at least according to the Emmy voters who chose to nominate it for Best Dramatic Series - the only time a syndicated show has managed to snag such nomination. {I personally think it is a splendid season.}

[@julianbermudez_415]

IM NOT PICARD !!! I’m getting that on a shirt

[@marshallhuffer4713]

13:04 - Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner actually did their own dancing in the episode, except for the overhead shots where Spiner requested a double, as he did not feel confident enough to pull it off. McFadden did the choreography, as she was a well-known Hollywood choreographer long before TNG. According to episode director Robert Wiemer, McFadden and Spiner also developed the lines in the scene, which were later accepted by the scriptwriters.

[@powerbadpowerbad]

@@subraxas I thought McFadden was-GORGEOUS-back then !!! LOL.

[@LazloH]

"She went where..?" scene with the alert sound made my Friday morning. Also this feels like freebasing TNG, like watching a entire season and getting the good rush of it all in short form is so satisfying, especially in your voice.

[@himbourbanist]

I love the holodeck episodes where they put on costumes and play Robin Hood and shit. It's like the crew got together for a D&D night

[@canalesworks1247]

"Captain I protest. I am NOT a merry man!" Greatest Worf line of all time, and he has a lot of great lines.

[@himbourbanist]

using Worf for the occasional comic relief line was a genius writing move@@canalesworks1247

[@brianjungen4059]

I am NOT a merry man.

[@FordFourD-aka-Ford4D]

This recaps / analysis videos gives me that *dopamine rush* of watching a season of TNG without the full time investment. _Thank You!_

[@_Omega_Weapon]

"Night Terrors" scared the sh*t outta me when I first saw it at 9 or 10 years old. In "Galaxy's Child" Geordi's behavior was definitely inappropriate and unprofessional but I don't think it crossed the line into "predatory".

[@TheEyez187]

22:20 - LMAO!! That bit nearly killed me as I coughed, choked, spluttered and spat my cup of tea!!🤣😝🤮

[@menacelurkingyet8345]

It had better have been Earl Grey tea! 😏

[@Aragorn7884]

Season 4 had a lot of solid episodes that had long-term story repercussions 🥰

[@sugartbube]

never realized the family theme of season 4. thank you!!!!

[@laioren]

12:20 elevates this work to the level of a masterpiece. Agreed on string theory.

[@classic.cameras]

SImply, Thank you for making this series.

[@worf7680]

LET'S GO I MADE THE THUMBNAIL! Mogh would be VERY honored!

[@kaitlyn__L]

Fun fact: cosmic strings are actually totally unrelated to string theory, and IIRC predate it! It’s a hypothetical one-dimensional super-dense object, made entirely out of nucleons kinda like a neutron star. It’d be subatomic in width but light years long. I totally thought that episode meant string theory had been confirmed in TNG too until somewhat recently. So it’s 100% understandable. I don’t much like string theory either myself.

[@antimatterhorn]

well, they're not totally unrelated, but one doesn't imply the other. the traditional hypothesis for how they might form involved topological defects that formed during the symmetry breaking phase of the very early universe, and then string theory posits a wholly different mechanism where fundamental strings become stretched to cosmological scales by inflation. but yes, these ideas were developed independently.

[@onlyhereonceinlife]

Definitely not related to cosmic filaments, that's a different Phenomenon

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@antimatterhorn right, I was specifically responding to Tyler saying the ship running into one means that string theory had been confirmed in the setting

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@onlyhereonceinlife I honestly can’t remember if they said filament or string in the actual episode, that’s just how Tyler said it in the video

[@mystuff8602]

"Do the spots go all the way down?" is a great pickup line

[@rachelolvera9435]

I cried when O’Brien and captain maxwell were singing

[@saxondark]

Another great video Tyler my fave line in The Wounded is where O'Brien says "I don't hate you Cardassian, I hate what you made me". Anyway hope you are well Tyler.

[@OrangeRiver]

Hope you're doing well too Saxon!

[@saxondark]

@@OrangeRiver I'm doing good Tyler one of my fave TNG 2 parter episodes was done between seasons 3 and 4 it was the finale of season 3 and episode 1 of season 4 Best Of Both Worlds parts 1&2

[@jhonbus]

I loved the song from that episode that Miles sings with Captain Maxwell. I still sing it sometimes when I'm thinking about oxtails and cabbage.

[@saxondark]

@@jhonbus That's an old Irish traditional folk song so old the person who wrote the song to this day remains unknown. But I have managed to find out it's called The Minstrel Boy and was written by Irish poet and songwriter Thomas Moore and believed to be in remembrance of his friends who died in the Irish rebellion of 1798 back during the time of the Fenians here in Ireland one of the most famous of which was a man named Wolfe Tone

[@nunyabizness6595]

Great Serling imitation. Well done!

[@JacquesLapeyre]

In defense of Geordi he only asked the computer to make the simulated Leah Brahms more personable. My head canon has always been that the computer, which we know from the season seven episode Emergence is bordering on sentience, is, at some pre-conscious level, in love with Geordi and programed Leah Brahms accordingly. I hang this all on simulated Leah Brahms' line about touching the engine. That was the Enterprise ACTUALLY talking to Geordi.

[@bellyjelly0812]

That would make for a very very interesting premise

[@TooSickToDressVictorian]

Yeah, I like that headcannon. I‘ll adopt it.

[@canalesworks1247]

Those are really good points.

[@pathutchison7688]

“Half a Life” is by far the best Luwaxanna episode of the series (not that that is a huge accomplishment). Majel Barret really gave the character life, too. Just another great, relatively small detail, that helps make this show so great.

[@residentgrey]

The Data/Jenna episode features the actress who plays the wife of the main alien protagonist of Alien Nation, another series that deserves more exposure.

[@kryptikt]

I must say I am impressed at the rate at which you grown and developed as a writer and a performer over the last couple years I've followed you. I can't wait to see what you produce next. Keep it up!

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you so much!

[@Shakes_The_Clone]

8:52 💪🏾 I love it when you bring the funny. You’re good at it.

[@Clay3613]

Geordi was doing nothing more than advanced roleplay and was clearly infatuated with Leah. You're right about this kind of stuff remaining private, people's often harmless yet highly embarrassing fantasies being weaponized for moral superiority.

[@joshythehand2960]

But poor Geordi was almost like a red shirt light. The second you hear intruder alert I shout " oh no.. they're going to knock out geordi!" I can't count the times he gets knocked unconscious

[@purefoldnz3070]

how they broke his passcode for this program leahbrahms69, is beyond me.

[@DJToMyHits]

To be fair to the holodeck, Jordy had to break numerous restriction protocols to create the program. Personality and phycological files were directly called out as a problem to get initially.

[@Draliseth]

*Geordi

[@ClanOKeefe]

First Contact and The Nth Degree are my absolute favorites from this season

[@biercenator]

Comes through even without the cigarette and reveal. Well done.

[@keffey99]

Haha. That episode with Leah Brahms is excellent.

[@AB-jt6ic]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the recaps.

[@adrianfarrell8219]

Not gonna lie my favorite bit was the twilight zone skit. Omg dude it made me laugh. Helped me get through washing the dishes.

[@adrianfarrell8219]

Also gotta say this channel has become my background while sleeping or cleaning the house. I'll run through my own mental pictures of what he's talking about while it's playing. But I've had the best sleep lately

[@kaitlyn__L]

I really appreciate the warning to avoid the merch. Wouldn’t want to get trapped in the Twilight Zone just for a tshirt! ;)

[@jonathan_rosa]

so good! (and i'll never forget the first time I saw "Identity Crisis")

[@andrewkappler5503]

The string theory comment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@penguinmaster7]

in Star Trek Online, the tutorial character Captain Taggart calls the player "number one" and says he served under a captain who called his first officer that "early in his career." in the episode The Host, Picard is contacted by an "Ensign Taggart", and while it's not directly confirmed, it's heavily implied that this is the same Taggart

[@gtc9966]

Great job as usual! I love ‘The Loss’ as well…so many good lines.

[@CoinSlotKitty]

Im glad you went all the way with this episode

[@TimelyAbyss]

“Devil’s Due” always sat weird with me as the tone seemed off but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Years later I learned it was originally written as a TOS episode with Kirk instead of Picard being the focus of the horny con-artist. The story makes SO much more sense knowing that.

[@Redshirt434]

With Data taking the role of the Enterprise computer.

[@nealsterling8151]

Yes, it was too much fun.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@Redshirt434 huh, really? And here I’d expected that was originally just gonna be Xon.

[@jhonbus]

Haha, I've loved this episode since I first saw it as a kid. I suspect Ardra appealed to a then-unrevealed part of my nature 😂 I can't fathom why Star Trek _still_ hasn't done a musical episode when the sheer volume of courtroom episodes proves the show is not above doing theme eps.

[@powerbadpowerbad]

@@nealsterling8151 So true.That's what I liked about that episode.

[@pathutchison7688]

Everyone: Worf! You killed Duras!!!😮 Now Gowron is head of the council!! Worf: don’t worry. I’ll kill him later.

[@va.melnyk]

Just as I was rewatching this season, great timing! Thanks!

[@Newbobdole]

Glad someone else appreciates what "The Loss" was trying to do "Clues" has the hottest two-episode-helm-Ensign in the whole fleet in Ensign McKnight with her Thomas Jefferson hairdo

[@averyandlukefuntimechannel5171]

Love these videos, I can't wait to see your breakdown of season 5!

[@3MenAndALetsPlay]

Another great video! I just finished TNG about a month ago after the last ep Paramount + threw me into voyager, this was very wonderful and almost a little nostalgic now that I am getting adjusted to the new crew of voyager. Thank you for your work and please keep doing your best.

[@pathutchison7688]

Barkley is the best accidental character is Trek history. Props to Dwight Shultz for making me feel like I know the guy. Incredible arc too, all the way up through “Voyager”.

[@Xan3119]

Buddy your ad was as good as the video LOL thank you man do you make my day much better

[@agoffgrid640]

Very concise. Definitely flowed well. Ty and I can't wait for season 5

[@Numba003]

I love the Twilight Zone ads you do for your merch. I may have to get a t-shirt or some such lol. Thank you for another excellent episode as always! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[@jhonbus]

Awesome video! I'd forgotten just how many absolute bangers there are in this season.

[@larryiscreating]

Love these recaps. Thanks for the awesome work 🙏🏾

[@Malkiore1]

lol when I was a kid I thought Tasha's sister was played by Linda Hamilton for the longest time till I re-watched the movie and was like "...wait a min". I ran around my school for like 3 years telling my friends that she was in an episode of Star Trek. -_-

[@palmercolson7037]

The person who played Tasha's sister is Beth Toussaint. She is apparently not a relation to Linda Hamilton or her late twin sister. In the right timeline, they could have played on that lookalike status: have three of the same character show up and interact with each other; two sisters with one taller than the other. Toussaint is six years younger than Hamilton.

[@powerbadpowerbad]

The actress who played Tasha's sister was-GORGEOUS !!! LOL.And had a very nice body.

[@jhonbus]

@@powerbadpowerbad "My eyes are up here.... No, further up."

[@Malkiore1]

@@powerbadpowerbad lol yes I agree 100% and she still looks good Today.

[@powerbadpowerbad]

@@Malkiore1 She does ??? GOOD,you have to take care of your-TEMPLE-it's the only one you have.

[@beezelbuzzel]

Season 4 is probably my favorite TNG season. Family, and The Wounded are great . Also dude, my new Mass Effect style Orange River mug showed up this week. It's is a nice accompaniment to the OR Trek mug I bought last year. I'm firmly in The Twilight Zone!

[@uncledubpowermetal]

In The Loss: Everyone: "But.. aren't you half human?" Deanna: "How DARE you bring that up!!"

[@canalesworks1247]

I love "Troi the bitch" episodes. She's fire in "Man of the People." If they had really wanted her to be sexy that should have had her wear regulation uniforms while on duty and then switch to that white number she had on when she was off duty. Getting to see Marina in videos at comic con etc it's obvious that the writing failed the actress way too often. She's quite the firecracker.

[@sly_botts1189]

I've always remembered since I was a small child Data saying "Perhaps it is YOU!" and my brother and I would always exaggerate it in many different things as inside jokes when we were growing up. "YOU!"

[@queenredspecial]

Aaaaaaw!

[@monkeywrench2800]

Dude! Lookin sharp in a suit!! Awesome Sponsor Break! (lol)

[@joeedh]

Levar Burton recently said in an interview that he hated the creepy way Geordi LeForge was written in Galaxy's Child and it's antecedent episode. He said Le Forge's inability to have healthy romantic relationships in TNG is why he demanded his character be written to have a family with kids in Picard season 3.

[@sly_botts1189]

I did notice after recently watching that his issues with women seem very "out of character" when compared to his personality in all other areas. But it was kind of funny how bad he was with women. Sadly some people really do have such difficulties.

[@limalepakko6074]

I think he was written to be kinda annoying in that show as well, he was kinda shitty to one of his daughters for not picking the same career as him, wtf

[@kylesells8579]

Man, Guinan was so good.

[@scoobiesnatches]

Ambassador K'Ehleyr made 12 year old me realize I had a thing for Klingon women.

[@ClanOKeefe]

You have good taste

[@queenredspecial]

Well, as a hetero woman I have to say… She WAS amazing!

[@davidbowman2716]

Co-star Nick Tate in the Final Mission episode is none other than Eagle spacecraft Alan Carter from Space 1999.

[@hartman.4744]

I was waiting for "all the way". Thanks. 👍

[@patgrondin5358]

The Orange River style is so outstanding in presentation and delivery. Another outstanding study of our favorite (or one of) universe. Thanks Tyler. Oh and just fyi I'm really not a merch guy, but the Rod Serling bit has earned a you a Tshirt sale. I just gotta choose one. ONE, lol. I'm sorry. It's a crap economy out there, but your work helps and is worth it.

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you so much!

[@shep9231]

These videos are always worth watching. especally TNG! :)

[@zEropoint68]

okay, but, so, here's the thing about booby trap and leah brahms. _it's the ship._ the enterprise is an incredibly advanced piece of technology that i'm sure has a whole lot of whatever kind of stuff makes chatGPT work, right? she's not a manifestation of leah brahms. she's a manifestation of _the ship._ the implication is that _the ship_ likes geordi.

[@Clay3613]

Futurama did it later literally dating a ship.

[@queenredspecial]

That’s what makes it so romantic. 😊

[@commiecomrade2644]

Been waiting for DAYS for this!

[@julianbermudez_415]

Forgot to say, but those “Family” based episodes hit the best

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

5:36 If this boy was adopted by the Talerians then my great uncle was also adopted by the Vietcong during the Vietnam war. They literally murdered his parents and kidnapped him during a raid on a human outpost. He's a POW, and the fact that his grandmother is an admiral should mean that this incident starts another war with them. _He doesn't even consult her before he hands her grandson back off to the barbarians that brainwashed him and ruined her and many others' families..._

[@MousePounder]

The only bad thing about this video is that it ended.

[@moxxy3565]

Lol :28 looks like the beginning of a bad 80s workout video with the music

[@XxPunxunite]

That twilight zone merch ad 😂

[@nitehawk86]

25:37 This wouldn't have stopped RIker.

[@canalesworks1247]

Imagine Riker's space STDs.

[@Sephex]

As always, love to see your take on TNG seasons..You do a good job highlighting strengths while being fairly critical with the lows. Also, without doing the cliched snide tone that some KZbinrs do a little too much! 😅

[@OrangeRiver]

Haha thanks Sephex!

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

I can't believe it took until Season 4 to see the Jefferies tube which would later become ubiquitous in VOY!

[@sgt.tattoo9609]

I love the twilight zone and star trek musical combo. Great job.

[@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha]

I wasn't paying attention , then I heard deep fake porn .... Listening intently

[@KingOfMadCows]

They never actually confirmed that Duras killed K'Mpec. We just assume it was Duras because we know he's a sneaky bastard.

[@kaitlyn__L]

K’mpec is underrated as Klingon characters go, imo. Probably because we don’t see as much of him as Gowron. But he’s clearly very shrewd, albeit a bit lacking in ambition by the time we see him.

[@canalesworks1247]

@@kaitlyn__L Well where was there for him to go? He was already leader of the council. Besides at the end he was too busy dying of that poison. I agree that he's an interesting character.

[@canalesworks1247]

It was done with Duras' orders, but I'm pretty sure someone else actually did the deed. Duras was pretty cowardly.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@canalesworks1247 of course the poison thing would’ve had to have not been written, once that had been said his fate was sealed. He’s an intelligent politician, and adept enough to live to be pretty old by Klingon standards. I would’ve liked to have seen his ruthless side a bit more.

[@canalesworks1247]

@@kaitlyn__L The idea though of a fat Klingon. That means he didn't really keep up as a warrior. He would have been a guile based politician all along.

[@binaryghosts5131]

Honestly the way the hologram talks about the engines in relation to herself id be more concerned that Geordi is rubbing up agains the warp core. Whipping out his conduit and venting his plasma all over the dilithium crystals.

[@DeconvertedMan]

my fav question to ask people "what is the true nature of reality" is based on that episode in the pocket universe. :D

[@kaitlyn__L]

By now it’s become your own spin on it, as Beverly’s question to the computer says “the universe” :D (this isn’t a nerd nitpick, I just love the way memory works. It’s well-known that synonyms are spatially stored in neighbouring neurons!)

[@DeconvertedMan]

@@kaitlyn__L "based on" :D

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

"Sir, I wasn't sure about the name on the file. What does, 'Geordi's Spank Bank' mean?"

[@OdariArt]

Excellent video! I enjoyed Season 4 myself. Like wine, it got better with time. Thanks, Tyler 🖖

[@OrangeRiver]

Thanks Odari!

[@JamesMC04]

I look forward very much to your reviews of TNG Seasons 5-7 (and possibly the films ?)

[@chrisbullard5901]

“Night Terrors” and “Identity Crisis” are both stabs at horror. One works very well with the subtle horror cues from a stripped down script, while the other has its moments overshadowed by Guinan phaser rifles. Though “The Nth Degree” is a great one, if only to show the cliquey, shallow, and insecure nature of the Enterprise senior staff. I mean seriously, there’s a way to handle “Phenomenon” Barclay without the Eric Clapton song, and still not squash his human rights as you protect the security of the ship.

[@EternalGamingNet]

Thanks for the video!

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@adamrenfrow]

They really made Geordi a creep in Galaxies Child.

[@DeconvertedMan]

Galaxys child is great! Poor Geordi cant get a break when it comes to women. He treated the real thing as if she was the hologram, confusing the two in his mind, as such his behavor is on point. He strugles to seperate the two in his mind, knowing one is made up, the other is not, but wanting to know the real one more - he tured off the fake, knowing it was fake, knowing that yeah he fell in partly love, but in love with a made up being, he wanted the real one - because he respected her work, and perhaps part of him still felt that connection, however illogical. The dang thing seemed real. The real one was taken. OR so she said... maybe she wasnt or maybe she breaks it off latter? I'd rather have seen that she wasnt taken and open to getting to know each other for real, but first she gets some light hearted `revenge' by programing Geordi in the holodeck getting a pie in the face - only to have the real Geordi get a pie in the face for real - two pies in face for the price of one, plus you could have Data say "3.14...." whatever pi is as Geordi mentions pie latter and the episode faids off as he just lets Data say pi wondering if he will ever stop. Hahahhahahahahaha! oh well. anyway. Good ep in my view and people are a bunch of complaners these days I swear. not that I dont complain about things, I do - but see when I do it, its fine.

[@AbigatorM]

i mean xD kinda great anology to todays para social behaviour to content creator xD It holds up well.

[@pathutchison7688]

“Remember Me” isn’t just the best Dr. Crusher episode (I also like “Suspicions”), it’s an all time great episode overall.

[@SiberianIce2022]

I loved this show.... have fond memories sitting on the floor in my parents' house in front of the couch and watching the magic. The only issue I ever got annoyed at...is it seems their computer was always messing up somehow. More than even mine...so, ya. Excellent videos....keep up the awesome job...picked yourself up another subscriber!

[@philly83]

Love the sponsor's ad

[@queenredspecial]

I love "Nth Degree" SO much!!!!!! Dwight Schulz is fantastic, and he does the illuminated Barclay with such flare!

[@halfsourlizard9319]

Literally the first thing that everyone's going to do when holodecks are real is to hook up with someone they have a crush on; seems pretty harmless. I mean, we have no control over who's thinking about us during ... um ... 'me time' 🤷‍♀️

[@utterlee]

Remember Me, one of the all time great episodes.

[@jymfysher7704]

Always love your uncanny ROD SERLING impersonations.Certainly you have similar voices and your acting and added suit and tie all shot in black and white are a real treat to behold.For some odd reason I am beginning to save my meager funds to purchase some of that ORANGE RIVER merchandise to see if it truely does leed me to the TWILIGHT ZONE !

[@myanrckay5959]

Comment for the algo. Thanks for the great work and detailed focus on each season!

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@seanmorgan2356]

Rod Sterling would be proud.

[@nostrum6410]

pretty sure Geordi mentioned he was married to her in picard aswell

[@twelve11]

I have watched seasons 3 and 4 more times than I can remember, it was peak TNG

[@wayner396]

Awesome episode as usual

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@robbicu]

Don't you think we're missing a main point about personal holo-programs? Don't you think they'd be password protected by the creator? Barkley was extremely smart, and so was Jordi. I just can't see them leaving their holo-programs open for anyone to charge in.

[@marktaylor6553]

Continuity error: Alyssa Ogawa was part of the simulation, set SIXTEEN YEARS into the future, and yet, she winds up being a real person and crew member. According to _Memory Alpha_, several 'predictions' were made by Barash's holodek tech that became factual later on, which one could surmise means that their holodek technology has some rather sophisticated, 'predictive' AI.

[@OrangeRiver]

Hmm, I don't know that I'd consider that a "continuity error"...

[@Raphmatic5000]

I watched The Booby Trap and Galaxy's Child as they aired, I was 6 and 7 years old respectively. I definitely got why Leah was mad, even at that young age, but I never saw malice in what Geordi did. 30+ years later, I generally think the same thing, but I think Geordi's reaction is for sure wrong, and his expectations of what Leah would be like remind me of modern parasocial relationships people have with celebrities or KZbinrs/Twitch Streamers. Your mental image of the person isn't necessarily the person is. I sympathize for LeVar Burton, I would feel awkward having to play that version of Geordi, and I'm glad that slowly started to phase out the "bad with women" Geordi. These two episodes are still sentimental favorites because I really like the character of Leah Brahms and Susan Gibney, but the writing for sure doesn't hold up at all.

[@CJonesApple]

Did you do previous seasons like this?