Star Trek Next Generation - Ancient Battle Cruiser

[@DrummingWriterTrekfan84]

I loved the music of this particular episode. it sounded ancient and haunting. The french horns really added a punch to it also. A really beautiful music piece.

[@cropcircler]

I believe it was borrowed from the movie Patton

[@NateGerardRealEstateTeam]

@@cropcircler I was going to say that the music reminded me a lot of the Patton soundtrack. “All glory is fleeting.”

[@pluckypluckster]

it sounded 80's to me.

[@soulsphere1749]

Ron Jones's Season 1-3 tracks are so memorable! I can't really think of any other shows since where I've been so caught by the music like TNG.

[@valuerjtp7]

The only thing that annoys me after watching every season more than 10 times is the exhausting non stop intrusion of music including background mood music. It is exhausting to listen to. It never stops and is at the wrong pitch for my ears. Horrible episode after episode e

[@tayzonday]

An ancient battle cruiser with artificial gravity and an Earth-like atmosphere sustained for a thousand years! What a miracle!

[@JaminTaylor]

LOL. So funny

[@mr.fluffy770]

It’s called sci-fi for a reason…

[@azakatura]

I was thinking the same thing lmao. Idk why they wouldn't be over there in suits.

[@deepsleep7822]

@@azakatura : surely they did an environmental scan before transporting to the ship.

[@johna9994]

You beat me to it! 😆

[@soulsphere1749]

It makes me so happy that we are all enjoying TNG so much still. This video was posted 10 days ago and it already has half a million views.

[@kazansky22]

Because the new star treks are a bit underwhelming.

[@andreperrault5393]

ST-TOS and ST-TNG were the original and evolution of The Great Bird of the Galaxy’s view on human society combined with adventure. They came across as genuine within their formats and framework. The next 3 series attempted further evolution.

[@Gift0r]

The impressive thing is that TNG still just _works_ as a show today.

[@heikowolfram1119]

it was such a great show. I loved it as a kid even though I didn't understand everything. As an adult I see it with a different perspective of course. It's even better now.

[@Chirp296]

I miss good Star Trek. Sure, we have The Orville, but seasons of that show are far and few between. I love me some TNG clips on KZbin on the meantime.

[@Xian1642]

I've always liked the "faded trumpets" in the soundtrack, very evocative of a war fought centuries ago.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

I think Patton was a reincarnated Promelian.

[@chuckybob1984]

@@hueyiroquois3839 Pretty sure the recording broke up when the Promelian captain said, "All glory is fleeting..."

[@jamiestewart48]

All I could think of was Patton!

[@00bikeboy]

@@jamiestewart48 Yes!

[@kennethgilbertdds7249]

Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

[@Corehaven22]

You see here, with ACTING, Patrick Stewert sells you on the rather simple and budget bridge layout made for this episode and makes it FASCINATING.

[@keithadams812]

So right....i miss shows like this...nothing but crap on now

[@thewhyzer]

And then he uses his telekinetic powers to make Gates McFadden's clothes fly off. She tries to cover up, but it's too late - he's already seen EVERYTHING.

[@Kavafy]

Exactly why DS9 was such a crock

[@davidcampbell1420]

@@Kavafy DS9 was meant to teach a different lesson. How can you defend yourself while maintaining your principles?

[@rem45acp]

@@Kavafy Do you like DS9 or Voyager more?

[@bhanson4917]

"That ship belongs in a museum"... Picard and Indiana Jones would have been good friends.

[@spaceflight1019]

Yep. Worf shuts off the beacon transmission and inadvertently activated a self-destruct mechanism...

[@bhanson4917]

@@spaceflight1019Yeah- this episode is pretty much Raiders- haha

[@spaceflight1019]

@@bhanson4917 Funny how all of those booby trapped asteroids were inactive until *after* Worf shut the beacon off.

[@vk2ig]

@@spaceflight1019 It makes sense. Shutting off the beacon means that someone has boarded the ship, so the booby traps *then* go live.

[@villageblunder4787]

Let me guess it ended up in an anonymous storage box in an undisclosed warehouse.

[@DrownedInExile]

Ancient derelict starships emitting distress calls. When has that ever turned out well in any sci-fi property?

[@mrmoss149]

🤣🤣🤣

[@spaceflight1019]

Funny that you should mention that...

[@InfernosReaper]

that one time they saved Scotty... that's literally it...

[@SilentKnight43]

Damn, I had vacation booked on LV-426 this month.

[@Julius_Hardware]

Blakes 7? Liberator wasn't putting out a distress signal though.

[@nonlocalflow]

Worf's reaction to the captain taking ownership of his ship's failure seems to give Worf a sense of admiration. Love that tiny little half-second detail.

[@CorvoFG]

They didn’t try to run away and they died fighting. He’d see that as an honourable death.

[@carlosmenchaca3934]

He died with honor and like a Warrior ... With full responsibility and accountability

[@LordTalax]

@@CorvoFG Actually they died with their ship helpless and their crew irradiated to death.

[@hmartinspliff]

Worf's reaction was one of bewilderment. Picard said the engines were intact, so the captain had no excuses.....if Worf had been captain of that ship, he would have given the order to prepare for *RAMMING SPEED* and taken out the enemy. Worf does not like the idea of his ship and his corpse being discovered 1,000 years down the line to be scrutinized by some alien race. Worf wants to be remembered 1,000 years from now in Klingon war songs passed down the generations honoring his glorious exploits in battle!!

[@terrystevens5261]

@@hmartinspliff Ko plah.

[@srtaylor1911]

I like how Worf smiles approvingly and respectfully at the captain's final words, wherein he applauds the courage of his crew, takes sole responsibility for their fate, and wants it to be recorded for all time that his crew behaved courageously.

[@DillonWinchell]

Yeah, he also glances at Picard like "that sounds like something he'd say"

[@MrGoesBoom]

I love how they spend less than five minutes on the ship, watch a short recording then Picard is all "Well that's it, nothing else to see here". I love the idea of finding and exploring a thousand year old derelect. Or the episode with Scotty and the crashed Jenolen and the Dyson Sphere. I get it, it's tv, but it would be cool to have seen more of those things

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

I always took it that Picard sort of lost his enthusiasm after seeing the captains final message. Completely took the wind out of his sails.

[@TheUnsungVil]

Well, not every TNG episode was ‘all good’… given the episodic pace (every episode starts more or less fresh) and short per-episode runtime made some sloppy writing inevitable.

[@MrGoesBoom]

@@TheUnsungVil the writing strike didn't help

[@DoctorJammer]

The point of this scene is that they, chiefly Picard, realized they were essentially distubing a tomb of fellow space explorers who died valiantly. Respect and morality should have higher priority over your curiosity.

[@TheUnsungVil]

@@DoctorJammer Yours is a good example of “theme over substance”, where one tries to find deeper meaning in objectively sloppy writing by applying an arbitrary theme to it. This episode didn’t live up to its potential in many ways. But hey, it’s just a TV series from the last century. Nothing more, nothing less. Damnit Jim, these are explorers and scientists, not priests and undertakers 🥸

[@Kalebfenoir]

Got to admit... I love the detail and the camera sweeps over that battle cruiser. Whoever made that model for the show, I think everyone was proud of it and wanted it shown off from every angle.

[@1014p]

Grant Imahara was among the props team.

[@shaundis2117]

believe it or not this ship wasn't made for Star Trek. One of the effects team worked on a movie called "Night of the creeps". In the movie its shot upside down to here. If i remember correctly that builder took it home after both projects ( and DS9) were completed and still has it today.

[@jamesbarrett5893]

Ì

[@Draknfyre]

@@shaundis2117 And the reason it was flipped was because the other side was completely undetailed. It was never meant to be seen from the top in Night of the Creeps so they left it completely "blank." For TNG they needed to see it from the "top" so they flipped the model. In a similar vein, if you look at the cover of the first TNG novel, "Ghost Ship", the titled ship is represented by a drawing of the original Battlestar Galactica but upside down.

[@ybemad]

To a 12 year old in 1989 this was the greatest show ever! That opening theme song had my ass marching up and down my room!!! So hyped.

[@moose2719]

Lucky

[@PizzaTheHutt69]

I was 7 then, the theme music still gets to me even now whenever I hear it. 😊

[@chatwithaninja]

cool trivia: The theme for TNG was actually lifted from Star Trek The Motion Picture from 1979.

[@RW77777777]

I was 12. all the good ones started in 1990 and later

[@ecase727]

I was 8 when the original Star Trek was on.

[@shiroamakusa8075]

Season 3 was the last TNG season before showrunner Rick Berman introduced his rule that the music in the series had to be dull and inoffensive so as to not "overshadow" the action on screen. It's really a shame because as one can listen to here, music can add a lot.

[@danielhausser8038]

Word! 🖖❤️🖖

[@namelessandsouless1]

Wait, what? Is that true? That's terrible! Star Trek always had great music.

[@kevink1575]

He would be correct if this were a documentary but he was totally wrong here. The music in this season in particular helped elevate this show to another level.

[@1966joern]

Yep,the music is by Ron Jones btw.He made also the music for the episode Best of both worlds.He was one of my favorite Star Trek composers

[@Sliverbane]

I noticed that!. Afterward the theatrical music went away. When I go back and watch the older seasons there was so much more suspense and excitement. Rick got it waaaay wrong.

[@Felix24148]

Apparently it was scripted but not filmed that Promellian technology heavily influenced the starship technology used by the Federation. They adapted the same kind of console layouts, and even power distribution systems because they were so well designed that they were too good not to copy. Hence why the bridge on board the ancient ship was almost identical to ones used by the Federation, and why Warf was so familiar with the console.

[@Deepingmind]

Canon or not, this I fully accept absolute canon.

[@charlie-obrien]

Canon or convenience....whatever, they are most likely reused set pieces.

[@Felix24148]

@@charlie-obrien In this situation, it's both

[@ziraprod6090]

good - it shouldn't have been in the script.

[@shadekerensky3691]

I completely headcanon this, would make plenty of sense.

[@TheSparrowLooksUp]

I always love it when Picard gets to be the archeologist he always dreamed of being.

[@thewhyzer]

Destroying priceless artifacts...

[@davincent98]

Captain, we are receiving a subspace message from Admiral Ackbar.

[@CaptainM792]

“It’s a trap!”

[@lucarinaldichini324]

It's a boobish chaaap!

[@SolSeal]

Good one. 😂

[@MasterControl-MCP]

Big Mistakey?

[@juxstapo]

I... Would watch that

[@rosenasser5943]

When a man, a leader admits his failure and takes full responsibility for the lives of those under him who were lost then this man is deserving of honor. For the humble shall be exalted. But the proud shall be set down.

[@rosenasser5943]

The instrumental theme song used in this segment of TNG is about the same one used in the 1980's Twilight Zone episode "Paladine of the Lost Hour" in season one played at the end of the episode. Music by Robert Dranin.

[@rpraetor]

Full responsibility also entails giving up the benefits of the position. If only we had men or leaders in the modern era.

[@prayforthe_1644]

Brandon will never do

[@tombaker8481]

And despite that man being an Alien from a thousand years past...his perfect english should also humble us...

[@benderrodriguez6343]

It's genuinely impressive how well the visuals from this show have held up. This was almost 30 years ago.

[@twiff3rino28]

Over 30 years ago: 1989

[@villageblunder4787]

over 1,030 years ago.

[@kiefer9152]

That's the power of analog!

[@IngoPagels]

first time I have ever heard of HD was in 1991. TNG material had been recaptured and visualy anhanced. You tube has matarial that compares the old vs the new improved materials.

[@matthewtaylor3308]

Yeah, those rocks just floating motionless in space… so accurate… 🤦‍♂️

[@Hans-gb4mv]

One of the best episodes of TNG with one of the worst endings. Given Picard's love for history alone, he would never have ordered the senseless destruction of this priceless artifact. Yes, there's a booby-trap, it's been there for a thousand years and the Enterprise appears to be only the second ship to fall for it. Leave a warning buoy in the area and allow Federation specialists to find a way to disarm the booby-trap.

[@tt3p9]

Exactly! I couldn't believe he of all people would just destroy it. That never felt like a true Picard moment to me.

[@defmore5099]

he didn't order it. riker just assumed. must've been awkward post-episode lmfao

[@tt3p9]

He did order it at the very end of the episode

[@NoX-512]

Never miss an opportunity to blow stuff up.

[@rogelioregalado2032]

I absolutely agree I was so mad at the ending it made NO SENSE

[@1rk1n]

This and Voyager were my favorite shows as a kid. I always enjoyed letting go of reality and letting Professor X & crew take my imagination for a spin.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

He was captain picard way before he was professor xavier...why you guys calling him professor x? They never called him professor x in any media....his name is Xavier, with a z sound not an x...

[@Dtitilator]

It would've been historic if the enterprise found a Star Destroyer, an ancient relic from a galaxy far far away.

[@vk2ig]

Or a Battlestar ...

[@easyalpha1]

Both a Star Destroyer and A Battlestar had Galaxy wide or inter Galaxy travel within weeks or months. Federation Starships could barely cover a 4th of a Galaxy in centuries with mainstream tech…..so basically the Enterprise would be somewhat limited to either ship.

[@DrownedInExile]

Or a strange bone-like alien ship crash-landed on a lonely little planetoid. Emitting a signal that appears less distress call, and more like a warning.

[@xavierpaul49]

It would make a great spinoff.

[@Megalith79]

So glad I grew up with this series and remember hearing Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's voice-over “And now, for the exciting conclusion” lol They don’t make ‘em like they used to…N yeah I loved the soundtrack for this episode in particular. Those fading trumpets were dead on the money for a “haunting” situation. Excellent episode

[@JoeyIngles]

The look of reverence on Worf’s face is priceless.

[@electricityisaghost4644]

"Admirable...they died at their posts."

[@curtcoeurdelion]

The good old Days of Star Trek when it still had Gravitas and a positive message for Humanity.

[@kaicreech7336]

Strange New Worlds is great example of old-school Trek values

[@villageblunder4787]

Of course it had gravitas, otherwise the actors would have drifted off the set.

[@StinkyGreenBud]

@@kaicreech7336 I tried Strange New Worlds but still feels off.

[@kaicreech7336]

@@StinkyGreenBud well, some things are always going to change. Television scripts are more colloquial now, they insist on lighting the outer space shots realistically instead of like it's in a studio, but ultimately I think it's got it where it counts.

[@DarthVader-1701]

@Troma It feels off because strange new worlds is just Discovery with a TOS aesthetic. Same substandard product in a shinier package.

[@Robert-hz9bj]

I enjoyed that bit where the music swells a little and Picard states "There's nothing left to see here." As a former archaeologist, he would probably love spending weeks combing through every inch of this relic. But suddenly, having the whole thing be made extremely personal as a result of the message, he is suddenly filled with an empathy and connection to a man who, despite the separation of centuries and light-years, is all too familiar to him. He now knows that he treads upon sacred ground, and it is best to step away for now...

[@nicolasadileonardo]

Extraordinary…it looks just like the stargazer bridge.

[@williammitchell4417]

The Stargazer, The Hathaway, Saratoga, etc etc

[@goku546686]

Budget for TV shows weren't much

[@Wrell404]

Enterprise refit, D battle bridge, ETC

[@draconusfrigidus]

The Promellian ship itself is literally a recycled prop from the cult 80's movie 'Night of the Creeps'. They just flipped it upside down.

[@camberweller]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh…..

[@zamiyaFlow]

Real Star Trek writing, a foreboding message and warning to our current leaders.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

the captain f&#@ed up💀💀

[@jefff3886]

There's a blooper reel containing a scene from this episode, when they're about to beam over to the other ship and an exasperated Picard asks everybody, "Good Lord, didn't anyone play with ships in bottles when they were boys?!" Worf says, "Klingons do not play with toys." Data is supposed to say, "I was never a boy," but in the blooper reel he says, "I never played with boys," and the whole set, including Spiner, busts up laughing.

[@MrDibara]

*GODdammit, that one hurt my stomach.* 😖🤣

[@muwatter]

Good lord, doesn’t anyone subscribe? Thank you!

[@Dominian1]

Picard is so in love with history and archaeology and then at the end of this one, he just blows up the ancient ship.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

I am surprised the promeleaon battle cruiser still has power after over a 1000 years with out refueling

[@PowerKorrupts]

Not only the body language, but Warf just just exuded the utmost respect for that crew - THIS is what I fell in love of this series!

[@tomasr.]

What a great find, I really like the design of the Promelian battle cruiser.

[@Orca19904]

Little did they know at the time, but the crew of the Enterprise nearly shared the same fate as that ancient warship.

[@raven4k998]

Were picking up a signal and it's a trap💀💀

[@philippebarillecavalier9275]

I don't remember this episode. Which means... There still is a new one for me to watch, after all these years!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

shocking the ships power lasted for 1000's of years when Starfleet vessels run out of fuel far sooner then that usually🤔

[@oucheev]

​​​@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue I guess its like your old Nokia handset compared to smartphones today

[@LanceMartin-gn3fi]

One of my favorite episodes...

[@stephendevore977]

Funny, I felt the same thing in 1968 watching the original Star Trek as others here report watching TNG. Truly great shows.

[@seanmc7128]

Man I have GOT to rewatch TNG. I haven't watched in many years and I forgot just how good it is.

[@williamdaliege1016]

"What an incredible find! A thousand-year-old alien battle-cruiser, with records and technology intact!" Barely three minutes later, never leaving the bridge: "Well, we've seen all there is to see here."

[@spaceflight1019]

I got the impression that Picard kinda lost his enthusiasm after watching his counterpart's final log entry. Apparently quite a bit was known about the Promellians that no efforts were made to access the database or even walk through the ship.

[@michellebrown4903]

After being left derelict for centuries in space , what would the temperature have been? Those Starfleet uniforms look fairly threadbare . Just asking for a friend.

[@spaceflight1019]

@@michellebrown4903 , we're supposed to assume that somehow the vessel's gravity and life support systems were still fully functional. A far more realistic portrayal was seen in "One Small Step" where all of the atmosphere had leaked out and the ship's temperature was that of space.

[@williamdaliege1016]

@@spaceflight1019 - Yeah, I didn't even want to touch on the "desiccated" mummy-like corpses we're supposed to accept because of the "there's no decomposition in space" motif. But when you have a room temperature environment with an atmosphere still intact, I can't imagine the bodies would have still been that intact after a thousand years. Hell, I'm surprised they didn't walk into an entirely evolving, self-sustaining microbial ecology.

[@spaceflight1019]

@@williamdaliege1016 everything else being equal, the Promellian crew could have been exposed to enough hard radiation from the assimilators that the ship was sterilized.

[@alexshank1414]

“This belongs in a museum.” That is one big museum, Picard.

[@spaceflight1019]

I always channel the beginning of "The Last Crusade" and add "So do you!"

[@FishKepr]

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum ran out of room so They built a second museum. A local museum got Boeing’s prototype 747 and 737 and a number of other historical aircraft, but they didn’t have a place to put them so they did the same.

[@spaceflight1019]

@@FishKepr Udvar-Hazy is a wonderful place. The last time I was there was the day Discovery was welcomed into the museum.

[@johna9994]

😆

[@alexshank1414]

@@spaceflight1019 I imagine the “So do You!” being said to Picard by Riker. Then Picard countering “I’m not that old Number 1, I may look it, but not that old yet.”

[@casbot71]

*Captain Picard:* Launch a class 2 probe to investigate the source of the signal. _[From 5 minute episodes]_

[@EnufIsTooMuch]

So much about this episode I enjoyed, but one part always bugged me. In the end they blow up the ship. They had figured out a way out of the trap, the ship could have been recovered. Then, studied by all those Star Fleet specialists in history, ship design, anthropology. The sort of thing that Star Fleet, as an organization dedicated to peaceful exploration, just loves to do. They could have sent for a science ship to return and place remote controlled, compressed gas thrusters to nudge the ship out of the trap. Same as the Enterprise did to escape. Now that I think about it, it would have made a terrific two-part episode! Oh well :)

[@HepCatJack]

It could have been brought back in service and used in the Dominion wars.

[@s727r]

Man I miss coseying up on the couch with little brothers at 5pm and watching the latest episode. Good Times.

[@scoobydoo5439]

Can't believe this episode came out almost 35 years ago,.. and I remember recording it on VHS so I could watch that episode as well as others over and over again. Bloody Hell I was such a nerd no wonder the cool kids didn't want me around 😜.

[@OhManTFE]

"The meek are blessed, for they shall inherit the earth." And we have. :D

[@dcash7018]

Yea my buddy and me would watch and record ea new episode

[@WorldPeace21]

Cool kids are overrated.

[@acb2439]

An abundance of thought provoking messages within these Star Trek episodes not realized at the time. Knowing what we know today, revisiting these episodes, they're not just some silly stories from a Sci-fi fantasy program. The messages contained within have greater meaning.

[@larrygilbert7273]

So, after a thousand years, there was still atmosphere in the ship breathable by humans (gotta love those common genes) and the gravity generators were still working. Gravity generators must be the simples and most robust technology ever created.

[@APTKC2025]

Depends on how the gravity is generated. Presumably it uses magnets to power some kind of local field. As long as the power source of the ship is in tact (and a modern nuclear power plant would easily still be functional 1000 years given the half-life of uranium) maybe they brought online remotely/by drone before beaming over.

[@larrygilbert7273]

@@APTKC2025 Or maybe it's just a TV show and I shouldn't take these things so literally.

[@richardday3136]

@@larrygilbert7273 Nah, it's a super dense molecule placed below the bottom of the ship which generates the gravity, when they aren't near a planet.

[@butteaviation2523]

And not an ice box too.

[@m5a1stuart83]

And it was created with Fortran, LISP and COBOL....

[@Lukeinashland]

One of my favs of TNG. But I agree with some of the other commenters. No way history buff Picard would destroy something so fascinating. I think there should have been more episodes centered on discoveries like this. I'd also like to see some re-visits of weird dangerous discoveries from all the Star Trek series. Like the Doomsday Device from the Original series. That would be a great tale in the Strange New Worlds series.

[@joealtmaier9271]

Perhaps they'd scanned it completely, and knew all there was to know.

[@thENDweDIE]

Out of context... "Let's put a end to their last cry for help..." could be an epic villain quote..!! I love what you done with their voices especially at half speed

[@hambone5718]

At 47 sec onward, Riker looks at Picard as if he's nuts. "Centuries old" dried up skeletons, yet plenty of breathable air, and working electronic recorder...

[@russellmz]

routinely create enough energy to break the speed of light but highly durable media and environmental systems is unbelievable

[@hueyiroquois3839]

Federation tech can't last a week without breaking down.

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

Space is a great preserver. Unless something is interfered with, something floating in the vacuum of deep space would likely be preserved for centuries, if not millennia.

[@hambone5718]

@@literallyanangrymoose7717This persons reply says it all. TayZonday 4 days ago An ancient battle cruiser with artificial gravity and an Earth-like atmosphere sustained for a thousand years! What a miracle!

[@rjb7569]

He looks at Picard in many, many episodes... starring at the back of his skull. Strange stuff.

[@vtbmwbiker]

I detect shades of the music from "Patton" when they first beamed aboard.

[@Sliverbane]

I heard that too!

[@stevematda976]

Yep. From the "ruins" scene where Patton visits an ancient battlefield.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

I just got one of those from Eaglemoss. In any case, I always wanted to see more of these civilizations. The Promellian/Menthar war would've been really interesting, since they were technologically advanced for their time (even Vulcans would've been barely warp-capable during that era, and the Borg didn't even exist yet), but their technology was still quite primitive by 24th Century Federation standards. Yet they managed to destroy a planet (presumably without crashing into it at warp). Since they don't talk about the weapons or such of either faction, I like to think that they each had something of a gimmick. The Menthar had the Aceton Assimilators, but the Promellians had something of their own. Neither used antimatter in their power plants, so that would seem to indicate that they didn't have the means to safely store it. But what if the Promellians figured out how to generate it quickly and cheaply? It still wouldn't be viable as a fuel because you still have to store it for the needs of the reactor...there's just no way to generate it on-demand at the proper ratios at all times, and they'd still have to contain it during injection, as well, and perhaps they couldn't. But what if they developed a device that utilized some quirk of quantum mechanics to instantly flip the charge of particles? If you could make it small and simple enough, it would be a pretty devastating bullet to lob at someone. And a lot safer ordinance, as well. As opposed to torpedoes that use antimatter, or just anything that traditionally goes "boom", you wouldn't have to worry about accidentally setting it off by looking at it the wrong way. As an active process, the risk of that would be considerably lowered. Not removed, but definitely lowered. The Promellian advantage would be to lob these things out of otherwise normal guns and have them proximity detonate very close to their targets. They'd be hard to dodge, almost impossible to intercept, and would do some pretty absurd damage. It would also explain how they destroyed a planet. How about this...what if the Hurq were a third race in the region, and weren't really part of the war, but were still caught up in it...but the Menthar and Promellians were too powerful for them to deal with...but when they wiped each other out, the Hurq went on a conquest-spree and that's when everything happened between them and the Klingons. The Hurq were conquerors, but with the Menthar's assimilators, and these hypothetical Promellians antimatter artillery shells, they wouldn't have been very powerful against either. The Hurq were pretty conventional in their tech and tactics, from what's been described. I think it would be cool to find that the Promellian ships are like the A-10 Thunderbolt IIs of Star Trek...absurdly tough and over-engineered to take a beating, even though they don't have shields. Maybe at some point, another galactic conflict breaks out, and the fleets of the Federation and its allies are getting stomped, only to have some new group roll up in a bunch of these things, and start bashing the snot out of whoever the enemy of the week is at the time. Having found a hidden Promellian shipyard, with a bunch of finished and nearly finished ships still in its berths, and then just tidy them up and roll them out for battle. Not advanced...but well-made and with advantageous gimmicks that modern enemies aren't prepared to cope with. Anyway...just some thoughts. Nothing canon.

[@jamesallred460]

I'd watch it!

[@boketto888]

tldr

[@davesmith9858]

Dude, you need a date.

[@drithius4801]

@@davesmith9858 😀

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

@@davesmith9858 Not sure my wife would agree, but ok

[@eamonnbrereton1525]

The days when we got 26 episodes a season, amazing.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

And now our seasons are 10 episodes short. Effectively along as tv shows in the UK that most Americans made fun of

[@MC-yt1uv]

I like when episodes highlight Picard's love for archeology. He is almost childlike when he finds something that fascinates him.

[@allenharper2928]

How do we make the flashlights look more futuristic? Remove the handles and make them uncomfortable to hold!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

make them look like g4 cubes that's how🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marcospataro5441]

This one clip is better than all new trek combined

[@aaronjohn6586]

Great episode and what the dead captain said was so eloquent.

[@jabberwock95]

You can really see Picard's excitement fade when he hears it too. Hearing a reminder of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders and his empathy with a fellow captain really killed his excitement at the historical find. Great writing and acting.

[@friendofvrgl]

This is still one of my absolute favorite Star Trek Episodes. I have rewatched it many times.

[@raenfox]

Always amused me how Picard went like, he expected the bridge from over a thousand years ago to be clumsy or awkward. Why? No reason to expect that. Unless that was a common thing for Promellians. Glad he didn't say "I didn't know that 1000 years ago they already had consoles".

[@williamlloyd3769]

In theory you could have used a robot that uses reaction mass to extend a cable from a distance and attach to wreck. With cable attached, you can winch it out of the asteroid belt for further examination. Given Captain Picard’s interest in the field of archeology, the ending didn’t fit what was a decent story.

[@javier1333]

Either that or you could just blow it up

[@mistersinister2043]

How do you know the enterprise was built to tow a larger ship with a cable?

[@williamlloyd3769]

Assumption is the Federation has a salvage tug type vessel that would setup and do the tow. Enterprise would have to provide overwatch so that tech wasn’t stolen by another power. On active duty, we practiced doing a tow using the destroyer I was serving on with the help of a Military Sealift Command salvage master. An interesting learning experience.

[@dtripodi]

NERDS!

[@donaldnevgonhapniv3084]

Agree.

[@sgtjarhead99]

This was a great episode. Loved how they demonstrated the common honor of the captains across the ages.

[@deanhoward4128]

Brent Spiner,has got to be one of the best actors ever; on several episodes while in the role of Data the Android; he had me convinced that he really was an android!

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

Look up his small roles on the old 80s comedy “night court”. He’s freaking hilarious in them.

[@DoctorJammer]

Well acting without emotion is much easier than portraying emotions. However, I will say Spiner gave the absolute best portrayal of an android in tv and movie history so much respect to him.

[@Anashadk]

I didn´t recognize him first time I saw "Independence day", but as soon as I knew it was him, I could have hit myself.

[@vk2ig]

Both he and Robert Picardo who played the EMH on _Star Trek: Voyager_ played really great roles.

[@RockSplitter]

“Admirable. They died at their posts.”

[@jeffspicoli5399]

They had nothing better to do

[@10GaugeManiac]

They actually died watching KZbin after they lost engines.

[@Bigrignohio]

"Belongs in a museum" . . . blows it up "to be safe" at the end.

[@oldfriend327]

I miss the late 80's and early 90's really bad. Thank you for this.

[@redpillnibbler4423]

Golden age of tv.

[@Arendelft]

I hated the ending to this, where they destroy the battlecruiser. They'd already deactivated the distress signal which was the actual lure to the trap, what they needed to do was drop a buoy/probe warning everyone who came nearby of the danger so, if some poor souls did come by for any reason, they'd at least know to avoid this particular part of the asteroid field, or frag, maybe all of it, this was just one trap that caught a ship a thousand years before, a still functional trap I might add, there are absolutely no guarantees that there aren't more further within the field. There was no need to destroy that battlecruiser after they'd already deactivated the distress call... they could have, in fact, eventually designed some probes with heavy thrusters attached to them to go inside the field, attach to the cruiser and slowly, carefully and safely navigate it out of the trap and bam, they've got the archeological find of at least the decade.

[@SaintLouisEastSaintLouisHiphop]

Star Trek TNG is 30 years old and i still watch every episode such good simple futuristic ideas great writing and captivating stories Luckily back in the Bit Torrent days I downloaded the entire series and Voyager which was a close 2nd I didn't see all the episodes until 2017 while on vacation ........I really hate how squandered Season 2 of Picard was Q deserved a better storyline I wish they would do a new Time Current Main Star Trek 25 years after the end events of Voyager New technology slip stream being the main travel and warp as a back up Time ships New Ships definitely a New Enterprise and explore the Jhang Hey that Riker was on in season 1 of Picard Maybe Pick a new Captain either Laforge or Harry Kim or both and explore the 4 regions

[@MarCuseus]

35 🤦‍♂

[@stephenwadecapps1983]

One thing I always liked about this show was the ambience..., surround sound was always fun.

[@jarniwoop]

I really like the sense of awe and solemnity the dialogue and music give this scene.

[@stevenharris7614]

Once aboard the Enterprise Picard goes on to say "thrilling absolutely thrilling "..love it

[@captainbroady]

One of the weird Star Trek episodes where the crew casually beams aboard an unknown ship without EV suits XD But as far as I know, they didn't have the budget back then for EV suits until DS9 and the TNG movies came about

[@sora6748]

Sensors showed that life support was working still so EV suits were not needed here everything intact power wise except lights.

[@JnEricsonx]

They had them in TOS.

[@captainbroady]

@@sora6748 not really, it's a really old ship so you'd expect there could be viruses or even a faulty life support system

[@spaceflight1019]

@@captainbroady true, like the Earth vessel in "One Small Step".

[@russellharrell2747]

Hand waving EVA suits was super easily, barely an inconvenience in TAS. The away teams used force field belts that could maintain personal life support and even protect against radiation and vacuum. This could have been upgraded to be projected by the comm badges in TNG with a momentary static flash over the actors to indicate the activation of the otherwise invisible force fields. But instead we got the hand waves of the transporter screening out pathogens except when it doesn’t, and convenient earth normal gravity, atmosphere and temperature in all locations.

[@thomaswoods615]

Good to see that the Promelian's made good use of MDF, all those years ago!

[@inwyrdn3691]

Few things more honorable, in any situation, than to be able to say "The fault is mine."

[@Swindle1984]

"At Mr O'brian's leisure, we're ready to return." "I'm on my coffee break."

[@stephenjohnston7630]

One of the recurring ticks in ST - and J-LP in particular- is the frequent amazement that ancient alien civilisations weren't somehow backward by virtue of having occurred in 'the distant past'. Why would an alien bridge be cuttered and inefficient just because it dates to Earth's 14th C? For the Promelians, this same period could have been their equivalent of the 35th C. As a xenoarchaeological enthusiast, Picard at least should recognise the fallacy. Another example of the humanocentric biases of the Federation, General Kang had their number!

[@tumbles8350]

I'm always disappointed when cisco tells dukat "I'll keep the dog off your lawn" and he doesn't respond with "you will keep the what off my what???"

[@JP-sx7fq]

The fact that the flaws of human nature were included in the scripts and seen in the human characters, is a part of what made the show. No human being is capable of being more than a human being. We understand a fair bit about our nature as a species and what makes us tick. Rodenberry's vision works because flaws add depth and believability. His wild imaginings of all of these races and worlds becomes convincing because he did not shy away from acknowledging the less appetizing aspects of who we are. Each of the different races of people in that universe are really just some aspect of ourselves taken to the Nth degree. Ferengi existed initially because we are repulsed by our own greed and they were a villain race. They were portrayed two dimensionally to establish the stereotype in the minds of viewers. Later, we're introduced to characters like Quark and his family. And while they are still greedy and this causes a lot of problems, we see another side to them. We see that they are capable of compassion and nobility, and we see that, ultimately, we are all the same. I could easily make examples using more traditional races like klingons and vulcans too. One is our rage and courage, our honor and our bloodlust. The other is our logical mind and intelligence, but also our apathy and our inability to love our whole selves. Each race exists as a form of shorthand for stereotypes. Then we have fun breaking them and watching character like Quark, Warf, and Spock grow beyond their limits. It gives us hope that we can do the same. It is one of the main reasons why people love these shows. So when you speak about the bigotry of low expectations we see in these characters, I think of how we ourselves look down on and dismiss our elders as primitive and backwards. I am reminded of every time I felt sad watching a beautiful old building being torn down and a new, soulless box rise to take its place and blight the landscape in the name of progress.

[@Armataan]

What's even funnier is... in earth's 14th century, our bridges weren't cluttered and inefficient. So even if you take as granted that all warfare began when earth discovered smelting bronze... it STILL doesn't make sense.

[@DaveMiller2]

It's just a lazy writing way of trying to make the Promelians seem admirable and impressive. Writers often sacrifice logic for ease of writing.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@DaveMiller2 I want to have them meet aliens that use a complete different bridge layout for the simple fact that their body plan is vastly different. And let the crew be confused why the aliens are having their ship so weirdly structures only for someone to say "hey, it works best for them, they would find our bridge equally odd"

[@keithallver2450]

0:46 Lang cycle fusion engines...Is Picard referring to their version of impulse drive or were the Promellians a pre-warp species?

[@biteme1167]

My take was that they were prewarp and the fusion engines were like Impulse engines (which are fusion powered).

[@DarkLordDiablos]

I'd say the name comes from the person who developed a similar style of propulsion that the Promellians used Discovered via a similar method here just less intact.

[@seanobrien1644]

This was one of the dumbest decisions Picard ever made. What threat. The Enterprise was the only other ship caught by the Booby trap in a 1000 years. No need to destroy the ship. Leave a warning marker and let Star fleet recover it later.

[@lesilestivany7839]

Unfortunately the writer's of the show had to do thing's on the cheap side.

[@charlie-obrien]

Had to destroy the evidence of their own gullibility. Like in all military blunders, first rule is CYA!

[@hokutoulrik7345]

Part of Roddenberry's rules about the episodes being self contained. Why do you think there were so few two parters during Bergman's tenure as the show runner?

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

Or just send a low yield photon torpedo to take the trap out, since it’s a kinetic force explosion & not an energy weapon.

[@mariuszmiroslaw2290]

This is the place where the entire crew died. The old maritime tradition requires the destruction of such a vessel. U.S.S. Lantree anyone?

[@simonriddick]

TNG forever! :) I've seen all these so many times and it feels like home when I re watch them.

[@dr.charlesedwardflorendobr3952]

Ancient ship out in space for centuries and it still had breathable air in it when it was discovered. Amazing

[@szaman1701]

Those were good old treck days, when you get sold by the episode in the first 5 minutes. No necessary drama, no pew pew lasers, just good mystery, or a problem that needed observation and clear thinking.

[@philipbergmann519]

Nothing will top Cause and Effect for pulling you in to a story at the get go.

[@szaman1701]

@@philipbergmann519 Oh yea, that was an opening to remember and a moment WTF? at the begining ^_^

[@lorddamocles2222]

'We've seen all there is to see here' Worf literally hasn't recorded their tactical displays like you JUST told him to.

[@studinthemaking]

Still can’t believe Picard blow this up without a 2nd thought. At the end of the episode. After they left the minefield.

[@studinthemaking]

He could not stay there until another federation vessel got there. To study and secure it.

[@Revan2908]

Between the music and the awe Picard and Worf show, they really knew how to make this thing seem almost like something straight out of ancient myth.

[@hawk6dm7]

Been setting there in space for 1000 years or more and it still has breathable air in it. Extraordinary.

[@TheJackl317]

Great episode but I never understood why they blew it up surely they could have deployed warning buoys and found a way to Deactivate the trap and got there ship out

[@stewiesaidthat]

They needed an explosion to end the show with.

[@CmdCodd]

I never did understand why they destroy the ship when they left? If they figured out how to get out of the trap... they could have just as easily relayed that to the ship coming too add it too the museum??? (That part did tick me off)

[@Caviar_Liberta]

When Picard says the ship should be in a museum cut to someone 900 years in the future calling the Discovery a museum. 😂

[@knightshousegames]

It;s crazy to think about seeing a recording from 1000 years prior. Like the oldest recordings humanity has as a species right now, at least in audio/video form are a little over 100-150 years old, and hearing those is already amazing Imagine being able to see the video of the meeting between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin coming to terms for ending the third crusade, thats the kind of time frame we are imagining here.

[@BizlaC]

"That ship belongs in a museum" spoken like a true Englishman :)

[@nancyharman4795]

Or Indiana Jones... 😁

[@bruceforster5993]

This is one of my favorite Episodes of TNG!

[@fotinipilichou1687]

I was always question the trek's procedure that captain gets in unsecure places first to explore. Shouldn't the marines go in first secure and explore the area and then if the captain still wanted to get in doing that with safety?

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

I believe the Captain's prerogative overrides that reasonable idea.

[@wintersun398]

Agreed. Reminds me of Prometheus. Keep biosuits on - you never know what spores are floating around. Those corpses could have a dormant alien waiting for body heat to activate .. 👽

[@gageangstrom7875]

I watched TNG as a small child and it's funny to go back and watch now. You send the grunts, not senior officers. Data I can understand, because he's an android, but your Security Chief AND Captain? Come on... But what ever. What a fantastic show.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Even Galaxy Quest asks that question "It's an alien planet. Is there air? You don't know."

[@mikekennedy4572]

Yes, that would be real life. Could you imagine doing that today on, say, a derelict warship, sending the captain and senior officers to explore instead of sending enlisted personnel led by a junior officer? Just would not happen to put the senior officers in a risky boarding party.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

2:56 I'd be scared in case things started exploding, restoring power to a 1,000 year old ship!!! :(

[@spaceflight1019]

Capacitors are gonna blow up, no doubt.

[@benjaminlarson7518]

One of my favorite things in Star Trek (and Star Wars) is the "history of the future" in the sense of something which is "futuristic" to the audience but which is old to the characters.

[@davyboy9397]

Something about the video of the Captain's last words always creeped me out. The way Albert Hall (actor who plays the dead Captain) portrays him is brilliant, but makes me feel scared to be on that ship. You really feel like you are hearing an ancient being talk. Also the ancent ship design looks like something outta Star Wars

[@lumberluc]

A relic, and a warning of what Scorched Space will do to a race.

[@AVBruggen]

2:30 "You'd expect a bridge layout of this era to be clumsy." For some unexplained reason, writers believed that there is some sort of universal timescale in which all civilizations develop. For all we know, an alien civilization that died out even hundreds of thousands years ago, when modern humans didn't even exist, could have been far more advanced than humanity of TNG. Aside from issues pointed out by others, like wearing no EVA suits on an unknown derelict ship or mummified corpses in the presence of breathable oxygen atmosphere, a very cool idea but poor execution.

[@tr4480]

Yeah a little exposition by the characters could have gone a long way.

[@samuelclements7147]

Hollywood wrote it and just like today they want to destroy the history of an ancient culture!!!!!

[@pan2aja]

The writer(s) probably don't have 401k or company healthcare to be bothered by such triviality

[@greggv8]

It was Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith's ideas in his novels that influenced the design of the Combat Information Center and centralizing command and control onto one ship in a fleet. He came up with concepts in the 1930's that made sense and were adopted by the US Navy. That eventually influenced the organization of the Carrier Battle Group with CIC on an aircraft carrier surrounded by other types of ships for force projection or protecting the carrier. There's no reason to expect the bridge layout of any spacegoing warship to be "clumsy" for the species operating it. By the time they'd get to that level of technology it would be very likely they already had sorted out what works best for them in land and sea based combat and control.

[@dekulruno]

You find mummified corpses in breathable oxygen atmosphere on Earth... as long as the moisture is low enough.

[@cropcircler]

One of my favorite episodes (though points off for any episode featuring Guinan). The captain's last message sent chills down my spine.

[@robertwieczorek5838]

Love that operational life support system on a 1000 year old ship

[@Aethgeir]

I love the whole idea of space-archaeology, making this one of my favorite episodes of TNG.

[@gregorydahl]

Imagine being on an exploration mission and finding a castle or ship from 1000 years ago and ordering it blown up .

[@mis4nthr0p3]

You mean like ISIS and the Taliban?

[@mcdouche2]

I love that a random 30 year old TNG clip gets more views than anything from the future.

[@danielwillliams9669]

Great episode. One of my favorites!

[@MrDeancoote]

Which season / episode is this ?

[@peterl.104]

@@MrDeancoote Booby Trap. Foreshadowing at 0:05.

[@tarrker]

Did I plan to spend my afternoon watching Star Trek? No but, that's definitely what I'm doing now. :)

[@Omega0850]

"We have seen all there is to see." After three minutes in a starship of a civilization that has gone extinct before Humans invented the steam engine... and you call yourself an archeologist, Picard?!