Reaction, Star Trek: TNG, 4x25, Gallifrey Gals Get Warped! S4Ep25

[@joer3720]

“The cats out of the bag” “Spot??” I’m not sure there’s a line in the rest of Trek that slays me like that.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

For me it's "Say goodbye Data" "Goodbye Data" from Outrageous Okana

[@1nelsondj]

@@bemasaberwyn55 Which is a steal from Burns & Allen, George Burns would say at the end of every show, "Say goodnight, Gracie," to which his wife Gracie Allen would reply, "Goodnight, Gracie."

[@tbirdguy1]

Whenever someone dies tragically on Star Trek... I always remember Q's line: "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." The same thing applies to relationships and exploring them... sometimes you get burned.

[@chriskelly3481]

......s**t.

[@CALQL8R]

9:04 Moments like this are why I watch @Gallifrey Gals . Katrina's reactions tend to be very animated and remind me of when I first watched the show 20+ years ago.

[@mattgarrett2583]

Data: "I am not capable of returning those feelings" Riker: "Me neither my dude, doesn't stop me tapping what I can! Up top!" *high five*

[@pendrew]

“Honey, I’m home!” Data used a contraction!! 🤫

[@Markus117d]

Yeah, Because Data was just reciting a line from cultural media, And not speaking an original sentence. Although there are other times where Data used contractions while speaking as him self 👍

[@tomyoung9049]

just baby steps of Data's character arc is such a huge part of this series. 🖖

[@Its_Dave_Just_Dave]

"Lieutenant D'Sora just gave me what could be considered a very passionate kiss in the torpedo bay" Torpedo bay hey, is that a euphemism?

[@chriskelly3481]

🤣🤣🤣

[@shadout]

I think the scene as Data is left alone after the "breakup" is interesting in how it feels to watch. Data is supposed to be emotionally unaffected by the course of events... so why does watching his being alone in the room and picking up his cat feel sad?

[@pigs18]

In regards to the 80s, if Back to the Future was made today, Marty would be helping his parents hook up in the 90s by playing grunge.

[@davidmckie7128]

It is also interesting that several of the actors from TNG turn up as directors of episodes of Voyager.

[@matthewstreets3019]

🙂 My Mother, has said to me that this moment, (at 9:10) was clever, back, when I was a kid.

[@Tantalus010]

The ending scene with Spot and Data seems more interesting to me in hindsight than it was when I originally saw it. Spot seems perfectly fine with Data's companionship. Spot doesn't seem upset or dissatisfied that Data can't give him affection. Data feeds him, pets him, talks to him - Data does what Spot needs him to do. That makes me wonder: given enough time, could Data have learned what behaviors Jenna needed from him to be a fulfilling partner for her despite his lack of emotions? Obviously, cats are easier to please than people, but the premise is the same.

[@firefly24601]

SOME cats are easier to please than people. :D

[@terrellkirkman2078]

I do think he could have dialed it in with time. But she wasn't wrong that Data trying to "approximate" romance was weird and creepy. If Jenna was really ready for a relationship with Data she would've simply asked him to not try so hard.

[@fakecubed]

He wasn't wrong for her, she was wrong for him.

[@capn_toad]

as a neurodivergent person i related hard to data and was often on "his side" in these types of scenarios, because i knew i would have similar reactions in his situation. i said thank you for the gift, why are you annoyed? what do you mean you wanted me to ask you to stay? you just said you'd leave how was i supposed to know? and so on. often social cues that he misses are ones that i would miss.

[@tumbleheart4664]

Riker is the ultimate wing man.

[@thefuppits]

Riker is such a sleeze ball. They writers treat him like he's some kind of bad boy, slayer of women. When he's really just a run-of-the-mill horn dog, follower of his ding-a-ling.

[@Bobsmith-xq2pr]

@@thefuppits Yeah but we love him for it anyway

[@thefuppits]

​@@Bobsmith-xq2pr Some of us, but not all of us ;)

[@terrellkirkman2078]

"In Theory" Data makes a good boyfriend. In reality, he's a *great* boyfriend! But Jenna wasn't a good fit for him. He needs somesomeone a bit more like Geordi. Someone who can see his humanity, even when Data doesn't.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Like Spot!

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

A girl can't have a machine. You need to build an android girl for Data

[@daphneglasurus7886]

Nah, completely different emotions, Attachment issues and reactions are just a part of a romantic relationship that aren’t present in a friendship. A very good friend to Data wouldn’t require him to access emotions in the same way they did, but if that friend tried to be in a romantic relationship with him, they would find those differences more hurtful. It would be natural to feel so.

[@bryanfoster362]

I find it odd that they have to tell O'Brian to maintain a lock on Picard's communicator. You'd think that would be SOP in that situation

[@PassiveSmoking]

It's weird to me that the episode focused on romance also had one of TNG's most gruesome deaths!

[@NEXCUSX]

Next episode is going to make Kat freak out lol

[@andreabindolini7452]

Totally

[@gryphman]

@@andreabindolini7452 "Humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them."

[@Mokkari77]

When I watched this episode when it aired I recognized D'Sora from the short lived early 90s show ALIEN NATION.

[@michaelk151]

Michele Scarabelli has recently played Martha Kent on the CW show "Superman and Lois."

[@victorhuertas4685]

Well ladies...They say time is the fire in which we all burn. 🔥

[@jonathanross149]

Their streak of not being stopped by CBS made me think I could wait a few hours before watching 26...I am a fool.

[@empirejeff]

Fair

[@daniellanctot6548]

Data trying to figure out relationships in this episode: Me, as a young man trying to do the same! Picard saying “I’ll get back to you when I have any advice on relationships”: Me, after decades of trying to figure out relationships! 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@chriskelly3481]

Booo! Truth. Gawdamnit.

[@MikeWood]

Getting Riker to give advice on Space Tinder... :) It was a good episode that explores Data's arc. More on that maybe in the future? :)

[@empirejeff]

William Shatner went to space.

[@pauld6967]

Posting this comment during their opening,...it is going to be interesting to watch Kat's reactions and the conversation between her and Paula. :-)

[@DouglasJohnson.]

You gals are great! I wish when I was younger I knew more female Star Trek fans like yourself. It's fun watching the classics with you and getting your perspectives.

[@empirejeff]

Did Picard ever learn anything about women?

[@weray7605]

Ask Vash!

[@jonathanross149]

Yeah, Data's Day was sort of similar. A tacked on sub-plot trying involving a Vulcan Ambassador trying to distract us from finding out about Data.

[@WilliamPitcher]

Gene Roddenberry was never a big fan of pure relationship stories. He didn't like overly comedic elements either. I know writers (even in the TOS era) pushed back against that, but they did try to honor his vision too. The B plot might have been included for that reason. They might have also thought they didn't have enough content for an A plot only or that the pacing was too slow with just the relationship piece. For me, the problem with the solution they chose is that the tone of the plots did not seem to go together. A different B plot could very well have worked better. Another option would have been for the B plot to have turned out to connect back to the A plot in some way.

[@satyrquaze]

End of season 4 and the 100th episode of TNG coming up! [Expletive deleted] is about to get real.

[@brom00]

Watching the YT edits after a steady diet of Patreon full episodes is like eating sugar free free candy. 😃 Hopefully getting that squared away later on tonight. This was a good episode but I can't wait to see what Kat thought of the season finale.

[@jpwphoenix1701]

Perhaps controversially, I actually prefer the b-plot of this episode. Don’t get me wrong, I love Data as much as the next person. It just feels very interesting following the slowly-building mystery of what’s causing things to fall over and move around on the ship. It’s horrific when Van Mayter ends-up falling through the deck and then rematerialising inside it. But it’s also really cool seeing Picard lead the Enterprise out of the nebula. It’s such a great visual of the tiny shuttlepod leading the massive ship out like that.😀👏

[@cypher515]

I liked the A plot, I liked the B plot... hated them both together. Total oil and water situation there.

[@mconnaghan]

Another quality cat video that I will watch when I get back!

[@mconnaghan]

I agree that it seems pretty impossible that you could have already seen so many episodes already. What even is time? ... Someone should make a sci-fi story about that.

[@mconnaghan]

Another quality Spot video!

[@mconnaghan]

My only complaint about this episode is that it had anything but Spot in it.

[@Cuthalu]

Weird A/B plot combination, but I liked both of them. Maybe they didn't think they could make a fully fleshed out Data plot. All in all, another great episode.

[@arthurgatward7369]

A kiss in the Torpedo Bay Data, lucky you.

[@PaliSvapna]

Y do I almost cry at the end of this episode

[@patsk8872]

Gene Roddenberry hated TNG 'Family', and I believe his quote was "this isn't Star Trek." I am guessing that mindset also caused this episode's forced "SPACE!!" B-plot.

[@thefuppits]

This is also why he didn't want anything to do with Deep Sh*t 9, he knew they would infuse it with exactly the kind of soapy internal conflict he tried so hard to avoid in his creation. He was wrong with "Family" though. That episode, was so Star Trek in it's context, it killed. It's really part of a 3 part episode, where in that light, it really brought the seriousness of searching for new worlds and civilizations, home, literally. "Family" was perhaps one of STs most significant episodes in making Star Trek "real".

[@patsk8872]

@@thefuppits I feel so sad for people who think they have to be loyalists to TNG and hate DS9...

[@thefuppits]

@@patsk8872 We feel sad for people who feel they need to be loyalist to anything that's entertainment. Now, people who like to champion really good entertainment over manure, we feel happy for.

[@patsk8872]

@@thefuppits "We" implying you are some kind of majority - you aren't. Most TNG fans enjoy DS9 a lot. You're nothing but a hateful troll.

[@thefuppits]

@@patsk8872 We're full of hate? Lol! Not all, fanboy. We're full of good taste, and recognize a fugazzi when we see it. You, on the other hand, can't tell the difference between haters, and those who won't suck up the slop because, it's slop. Slop, by any other name, Patsy, is still slop. And no, *most* classic Trek fans are not necessarily fans of DS9, as an overall series. Fwiw, there are some *fantastically classic* DS9 episodes, just not enough to make it overcome Deep Sh*t 9 disease. What's Deep Sh*t 9 disease? It's the disease Deep Sh*t 9 suffered from in the form of the writing staff who couldn't wait for Gene to be totally out of picture, so they could bring their Star Wars and Babylon 5 slop into Star Trek. This is similar to the CBS writers bringing in Game of Thrones in Space into CBS Trek. Only with CBS Trek, it's about writers with flat out disdain for classic Trek, spinning up the slop machine. So, like many fanboys, you simply cannot stand when someone calls out your clown-faced acceptance of diseased slop. And, calls out fanboy insistence on ingesting that slop. Then takes issue with fanboys for not being able to admit CBS Trek, along with a lot of Deep Sh*t 9, is patently not, Star Trek in any way shape or form, other than in names and pilfered, denatured lore. But, hate? There appears to be hate alright, but it's all you Patsy! Cheers!

[@brianadkins3880]

You know,I can't remember right off...does Data ever bring up his 1 time encounter with Tasha Yar with anyone after the episode,"Measure of a Man?" Not saying it was the same thing as this because it obviously wasn't but you'd think it would have been brought up again at some point. Don't believe Picard didn't really have any advice,he just didn't want to be bothered and has learned how to keep Data from annoying him. lol

[@Cuthalu]

It's referenced in a couple of other episodes.

[@rantandroll7583]

Data seems unfazed at the end. But is he? It is exactly what he longs for most, to be more human. Is this the first time Data has failed at something? Then he is just a bit more human for having failed. Defectum semper est optio. But for Data? The episode should have been more like "Data'a Day" and focused more on him.

[@shallendor]

This was such a memorable episode, and pretty entertaining!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

This is not one of my favorite episodes in TNG. Particularly the "You're not my mother" comment during their fight. For his part, Brent is friggen incredible as always. I will say this episode has one my favorite interactions between Picard and Data. I will say that while Trek doesn't do body horror much, but when it does........HOLY HELL. Katrina is not prepared for next week's episode 😛

[@thebpphantom]

Go Action Grandpa! XD

[@OzzyRampage]

Wait, Paula was born in the 80's?! I thought she was in her Early 20's though, atleast she looks like she is. 😮

[@mrtin9128]

have been highly anticipating this one and the next one tbh

[@1nelsondj]

As much as I like Data I think the writers play him for comedy too much. With his ability to absorb and process information he could easily become an expert on human interactions instead of pretending to be angry and saying, "You're not my mother!" which is absurd. I hope you're going to watch the DS9 series, I think it's the ultimate spin-off Trek series. It has characters I genuinely care about, they have depth and they don't all get along. Much more realistic than TNG. And the plots tend to go into areas this show avoids such as religion and war. Plus they're mostly stationary near a planet so there's more range of adventures.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

Loved your reactions on this

[@Stanley_A._Hunt]

9:08 I hope one day you all will react to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Those who know, know. 😏

[@FortoFight]

I suppose Data didn't know better but the people that told him to pursue the relationship gave him horrible advice imo. You're just wasting their time if you get in a relationship with them without actually having feelings for them.

[@flnthrn2]

Tongue ?

[@InterdimensionalCowlick]

Has anyone made a joke about D'Sora's boyfriend taking batteries yet? I mean it's just hanging right out there.

[@jonathanross149]

Now this is a Data episode