🖖STAR TREK TNG 1x23-24 | Skin of Evil | We'll Always Have Paris

[@jenmurrayxo]

We're finishing season 2 on Patreon tomorrow! TNG Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5dqskzLNqeSNyMGa1rBWe3h1 ORIGINAL SERIES: kzbin.info/aero/PLQHhQlj8i5drsrCtQd-FDuZZ99vKlPTyZ

[@SteveTAGamer]

You're gonna have a BLAST in season 3. There's a string of amazing episodes coming up for you.

[@kevinslayzak1214]

I'm telling you now Mrs Murray....the Deep Space Nine series sucks.... you've been warned...lol...✌️

[@SSanatobaJR]

@@kevinslayzak1214 You may think it sucks, but others like myself don't agree. I love DS9 almost as much as I love TNG.

[@jabecker21]

@@markplott4820why are you posting spoilers!!!!!

[@kefkaFollower]

I think @kevinslayzak1214 is trying to hoard all Deepspace 9 for himself. Some times it does departs a little from Gene Roddenberry's original vision for ST, but is a great show anyway. As good as "ST: The Next Generation" IMO.

[@CharginChuck]

Let's be honest, we were ALL waiting for this one.

[@danielingersoll7768]

Yup.

[@mr.joshua6818]

Yeah 😢

[@mastervodo6840]

Absolutely!

[@merlinscat]

Yep

[@fusionaddict]

Indeed.

[@GreenCauldron08]

LOL I love your logic "I know Riker can't die in this episode because he's supposed to get a beard later"

[@CodyCameron82]

While Yars death sucks, Denise Crosby asked to written off the series. There's an easter egg in the previous episode when yar waves in the shuttlebay. she was waving goodbye to audience

[@k1productions87]

Because that was the last scene she filmed, I believe

[@Embur12]

How did it suck again? Wharf moves to head of security, and eventually Geordi moves to engineering and a bonus, no more Tasha Yar, absolutely the most annoying character on the show (sorry Will Weaton but you'll always be second best)!

[@martinfehringer6408]

The writers should have give her more character depth @@Embur12

[@donutwindy]

Worf as chief of security makes a lot more sense. Had Denise stayed, Worf would have only been the token Klingon but now he gets to be the token Klingon, AND chief of security. Now that I think about it, it wouldn't really have made much difference. At the time, however, I did want her to stay.

[@cypher515]

@@martinfehringer6408 I think the fact of her death sucks for that reason... but I've heard some rather compelling arguments that there's no such thing as a dignified death. (And after my dad passed away from a glioblastoma so aggressive it grew through the chemo and radiation two years ago? I'm fairly certain I agree.) The Klingon and Hollywood ideal of going out like a champ, to me, is BS. Every death sucks, period. From Yar to Spock with David Marcus and the redshirts in-between.

[@bigneon_glitter]

_"Maybe Troi can talk some sense into this goo."_ The best _TNG_ commentary. Love it.

[@marinedalek]

If that doesn't sum up the whole of TNG, I don't know what does!

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

three ways to have the big baddie challenge the crew: -have it slap Worf out of the frame. -have it avoid Troi's persuasion. -and have it wrestle Data out of a grapple.

[@ammaleslie509]

Picard v. GOO!

[@RetroClassic66]

All us fans were just as shocked at Tasha’s death back in 1988 as you are in this video, Jen. Especially since we had only recently dealt with Spock’s death, only to see him reborn in the following movie. It really shook everyone up and solidified TNG as a strong show independent from the Original Series.

[@thescotter74]

I remember 13-year-old me sobbing at Tasha’s funeral, and then the preview for the next episode which made me think, “oh, it’s about time travel, so they’re going to bring Tasha back!” Probably with Spock’s resurrection in the back of my mind.

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

well... Tasha's death makes the reveal down the line all more powerful. you know which reveal.. the not-mirror Enteprise from the not-mirror timeline? 🤨

[@robertritchie8829]

It's so difficult to bite our tongues knowing all the great things ahead in the whole of star trek that had their seeds planted early in TNG, but it's amazing rewatching them with someone who's experiencing it for the first time 😁 Thanks again for my Sunday highlight!!!

[@mblackwl]

Well, Jen doesn't know about how Riker dies and comes back as an undead, bearded skeleton.

[@jeffevans9853]

​@mblackwl Yeah, watching Picard v Undead Riker was cool, especially since Riker was commanding the Gorshkov. Watching a ghost ship aircraft carrier in space was awesome. I do think the deus ex transporter bringing Riker back to life was pretty cheesy though.

[@nataliefaust7959]

@@jeffevans9853 ... did you just... reference the very first TNG novel? 🤣

[@robertritchie8829]

@@mblackwl Ah yes, I forgot about that episode, poor Riker never could play the trombone quite the same after that.

[@noneya3635]

Not hard at all, gives you something to look forward to watching along with someone who so clearly is loving the crap outta trek. It’s like watching them for the first time all over again.

[@KNOPFLERSGOD]

Tars death is a shock when you watch this episode for the first time, and her funeral hologram speech is so touching. Hailing frequencies closed sir😢

[@CCJJ160Channels]

“Tasha’s really dead?! I need a snack!” 🤣

[@DoctorStagger]

Skin of Evil is easily one of the highlights of an uncertain first season. As season 2 progresses, you start to see everything settle into place.

[@tremorsfan]

Trivia time: the black goo was made of a mix of metamucil and printer's ink

[@charlesmaurer6214]

I would have used blackberry jelly if I was setting it up, sticky but not toxic. Of course it would have drawn bugs in a few days. Maybe blackberry wine thickened with gelatin or starch, would have the cast in a good mood fast though.

[@stephenstewart2280]

I would put the first season over the terminally boring Season 7... at least Season 1 had really good stories, great drama, and top-notch production values even while the main cast were settling in and writers having to wrestle with Gene Roddenberry's diktats. Season 7 (with the exception of a few episodes) was an effective cure for insomnia. Brannon Braga has stated the writers were "burnt out" by the seventh season and didn't really know what else to do with the main characters... I would counter that losing some of their best writers - Michael Pillar, Jeri Taylor, Ira Steven Behr, etc - to unnecessary spin-offs while the 'mothership' series is still ongoing was a major mistake.

[@SSPerfectChaosRCT]

​@@stephenstewart2280I don't know if I'd call DS9 unnecessary but I do think they had already decided to end TNG with season 7 and yea the burnout was probably pretty real too.

[@gapsule2326]

​@@SSPerfectChaosRCTplus DS9 is the best Star Trek series so it was worth it.

[@stephanelosier6492]

How to let everyone know you're a Star Trek fan and a Canadian without saying a word. Just wear a Make It Snow shirt 😂

[@quwykxz]

Why did I read Cardassian instead of Canadian... 😅

[@ChrisReise]

4:24 The acting during the sick bay scene when Crusher was trying to resuscitate Tasha is absolutely amazing...particularly Denise Crosby's body movements (not shown in the reaction) slowly degrading during the defibrillator attempts. Then Crusher's whisper of "90", and of course Picard's turn to face Crusher when she says "she's gone."

[@Dillpicks95]

It’s Sunday and you know what that means. The Next Jen has returned, always the most exciting day of the week🖖.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Can't wait! :)

[@ShadowTrailMedia]

THE NEXT JEN! That's amazing.

[@kidrasan]

"Hailing frequencies closed sir," is so simple but makes me feel so much. It's a pity Crosby felt she had to leave.

[@kevinlewallen4778]

Hanging with Jen is a guaranteed good time, and the Trek episodes are icing on the cake. Thanks so much for these, Jen!

[@ChrisReise]

12:58 My eyes just welled up as soon as Picard said "One of the saddest duties I've ever had to perform is now ahead of me."

[@Ian-xx1xb]

Sunday's just wouldn't be Sundays now without next Jen 🖖 I look forward to it all week

[@glenngalloway6191]

(Just noticed Jen's sweater) Phenomenal.😆

[@jeffjefferson7384]

I saw this live as a little kid, could not believe what happened. That monster is just as scary as an adult lol.

[@dannyspelman1468]

"We'll always have Paris" is an iconic line from the movie Casablanca and so is the Blue Parrot cafe. That episode is generally described as very weak. It was affected by a writer's strike.

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

Ah, a strike. That explains things. They must have drafted the janitor to write the screenplay. And the office security guard to do the special goo effects.

[@vandal_vr]

Death of Yar was truly a potential loss, but the rise in Worf's arc benefits greatly, and I believe Tasha would be proud of him.

[@WmTRiker]

Now that you've seen this episode (and know that Tasha dies), you can check out this Easter egg from the previous episode, "Symbiosis", which was filmed _after_ "Skin of Evil" (although it aired before): Near the end look for the scene where Picard and Beverly are leaving the cargo bay. Over Crusher's left shoulder you can see Denise Crosby in the background waving good-bye to the fans because that was the last scene she filmed.

[@firedoc5]

The beautiful Michelle Phillips, a member of one of the greatest singing groups, the Mamas & Papas. Her looks changed little since the 1960's, probably with a little help, but still beautiful. You would think they would have learned that time science is dangerous from "Back to the Future". When first seeing Lt. Yar being killed it was just as shocking as you thought it was. Denise Crosby wanted to do other projects. One of those was a small roll in a movie "Skin Deep" with John Ritter, hilarious. And yes, no spoilers, y'all.

[@Panzer4F2]

Skin Deep was a very funny movie. I recall the "glow in the dark" scene in particular.

[@auckalukaum]

Denise Crosby left the show because she felt she wasn't getting enough character development and was mostly in the background saying the same things in every episode. After, she starred in Pet Sematary and a handful of odds and ends, including a guest spot on The Walking Dead. But post Star Trek she is mostly known for directing a Star Trek documentary. Go figure.

[@k1productions87]

After filming that scene, she'd say "See? If you'd have given me more stuff like this to do, I wouldn't be leaving!!!"

[@alanmackie7012]

Let's face it. McLean Stevenson had a better career after MASH than Denise.

[@charlesmaurer6214]

She actually said before that she didn't want the long term role. She enjoyed it but didn't want to be another Nimoy. Something that will playout but I won't say how for spoilers.

[@VME-Brad]

Her stated reason was that she didn't want to get type cast, as had happened with the actors in TOS. Of course she didn't have many roles after Star Trek, so she ... well I won't spoil it.

[@timmooney7528]

@@VME-Brad She was under utilized in that role. I recall in an interview she said they could've replaced her with a pair of legs at the console behind the captain, and no one would notice she wasn't there.

[@chuck7190]

I love that Jen's grieving process involves snacks. LOL! I love how invested you are in the wellbeing of the crew. I was heartbroken when they killed Tasha. It was a great episode that reminded the viewers that the stakes in this show were high and they weren't afraid to kill of a main character. That's why Star Trek TNG is one of the best shows ever created for television.

[@brucechmiel7964]

There is a season one fan theory regarding why the Enterprise D has so many department heads in engineering. Even though the ship has been in deep space operations for about three months at this point, this is still her shakedown voyage. This is why engineering has so many more personnel then would normally be on a galaxy-class starship. As all the fine-tuning is completed, personal will be transferred or reassigned while a permanent crew selected from the Enterprise’s existing staff will be given responsibilities as managers and department heads. Eventually, a permanent chief engineer will be selected from the ship’s current roster.

[@herbertkeithmiller]

Beautiful explanation very well and carefully phrased. 😉

[@scottgibeault1717]

Heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet.

[@Rocket_Man232]

🔔 JEN: "Denise Crosby: I Was Miserable On Star Trek TNG "Mar 19, 2012 - Denise Crosby's reasons for quitting were similar to Nichelle Nichols': “hailing frequencies open” is not acting. " "I didn't want to spend the next six years going 'Aye, aye, captain,' and standing there, in the same uniform, in the same position on the bridge." ---------- "Denise Crosby quitting STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION was a worst career decision! "Her argument that she was given nothing to do as Tasha Yar would make sense after 3 seasons but she was barely into Season 1"

[@KthulhuXxx]

"... but she was barely into Season 1" That was kind of the point, though. 23 episodes in, she had been given very little focus. Quite a bit less than anyone else that was considered a part of the main cast.

[@davidjones1619]

Clearly she wasn't happy with her role and wanted more to do, but the producers were happy to let her go, they weren't very sympathetic.

[@Rocket_Man232]

@@davidjones1619 Same for Gates McFadden & Terry Ferrel!

[@Michael-id9bw]

Ah, yes. Skin of Evil caused a lot of those expressions. 😮

[@robertsmith3883]

Now Worf is the Chief of Security. He will succeed at his new profession and that way honoring Tasha Yar

[@theonetruesasquatch]

I knew she would be shocked at Yar's death.

[@ChrisReise]

23:49 Rod Loomis, who plays Paul Manheim, also played Sigmund Freud in the comedy "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."

[@MarkEvans-xw5ix]

Glad to hear you love 'time' episodes too. They are always my favorites, anything to do with time travel or time loops im a sucker for. Stargate SG-1 has a time loop episode called 'Window of Opportunity' and its widely regarded as a fan favourite.

[@DrummingWriterTrekfan84]

And I love the "Make it Snow" sweater!🖖❤️ It's brilliant!

[@ChrisReise]

Fun Fact: This episode finished filming before the previous episode (Symbiosis). The last scene filmed with Denise Crosby was from THAT episode. She is in the cargo bay with the two men suffering from the addiction and as the bay doors are closing, you can see Denise looking into the camera and waving goodbye to us.

[@The-Cosmic-Hobo]

When I first saw this episode I did know what was going to happen... (I saw it circa 1991), and had seen cast photos from later years without Yar) My local network aired the episodes incorrectly however, so next week - Yar was back!

[@lethaldose2000]

Hwy Jen, you gave us one of your best lines ever. "Come on Manheim, start talking." Seeing Jen in attack mode is fun to see. -------- Star Trek really brings out all sides of you. ------- Curious Jen, Protective Jen, Fighting Jen, Intelligent Jen, Excited Jen, Analytical Jen, Caring Jen, Nurturing Jen. -------- That's why Sunday with you start of my week just right. Thanks for being you.

[@jenmurrayxo]

🖖

[@gong63]

The first season had a lot of unhappiness behind the scenes, including the actors' agents telling them the show was a dead-end. Denise Crosby didn't see anything being done with her character or any of the women, really (She wasn't completely wrong). On a fun note, in one of the novels they reveal that Picard has a fencing program in the holodeck where his opponent is Sulu.

[@kerry-j4m]

The female characters on TNG were under used on a regular basis,DS9 did a much-BETTER-job with the women on that show.The trailers for the actors had no heat or air-conditioner on the lot of Paramount.Writers of the show were coming and going like a revolving door,thanks to the restrictions made by Roddenberry to write for the show.They threw GENE the peace sign on their way out the door. LOL.

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

That’s the feminist retconned version of why she left. The truth is her agent convinced her that the show would never be a success and that she would be better off going for movie roles. One of the worst decisions in show business.

[@kerry-j4m]

@@GeorgeEugeneBarrett A bird in a hand beats 2 in the bush. LOL. Yes,bad decision,you have steady work and a pay check ( why leave that ?? )during the off season go look for film roles. Just my 2 cents.

[@fuzzzone]

@@GeorgeEugeneBarrett Got any evidence to support that view? Because she talked about her reasoning at the time, not in some kind of ret-con fashion, and Gates McFadden's clashes with the production team over the use of the women in the story lines was also well-known.

[@RoaldRoberts]

This show is fantastic throughout the last season :D

[@lukefallon8276]

Jenice Manheim was played by Michelle Phillips who sang with the 60s band The Mamas & the Papas.

[@The_Foreigner_Belt]

The character of Tasha Yar had such potential. That's why her death was so hard. She could have been a great woman in Star Fleet. A captain of her own starship. An admiral. All of her dreams, and the hopes her crew mates had for her, as well as us fans. Snuffed out. But, that's life. That's the dangers of being in Star Fleet.

[@RJHart1214]

Skin of Evil may be silly with its jerk of a walking oil slick but the killing of Tasha was quite effective. Then there's We'll Always Have Paris💤 which is at least appropriate as Jen's Casablanca reaction is up here this week. 👌 Jen's Next Jeneration reactions are jenuinely interesting and jently fun. ;) Live Long and Prosper, Ms Murray 🖖☺️

[@positivelynegative9149]

22:50 "I do!" 🤣

[@MFSeaMen]

No goodbyes, just good memories.

[@benn454]

The Armus costume was made of foam and latex with a mixture of Metamucil and black printer ink for the goo. The actor wore goggles to protect his eyes, and the scenes of Armus rising and submerging were timed with a stopwatch so that the actor wouldn't suffocate.

[@qbasicmichael]

Jonathan frakes also had to go in that goo.

[@txlyons2937]

_"The goo has come."_ One of Jen's best comments.

[@jhopeur7219]

Tasha's death was so traumatizing to me. It's a long story that I'll spare you from but, for the longest time, I only had a box set of the first season on DVD--the last tape of which, didn't work. I bought it at a yard sale and I watched those four tapes over and over and over. Saw episodes 1-20 enough times I could recite them. And Tasha was my hero. I dressed up as her for Halloween 3-4 years in a row and wrote a paper about her in grade school naming her as my role model...I loved her. When I was 12 or 13 I had a summer job and earned enough to buy the whole Next Gen series on DVD and I planned to binge watch it starting from the beginning with the episodes I'd seen a million times. I was so excited when I finally got to episodes 21, 22...and then in 23 TASHA DIED. Just like that. She was a first season character! I wasn't prepared for Star Trek without her. I still enjoyed it--Data took her place as my favorite--but I really was devastated by the loss. I told Denise Crosby this story when I met her at the 25th Anniversary Convention in Calgary. haha. Anyway, I know it was her choice but it still was so tragic to me.

[@positivelynegative9149]

🥺

[@archangel0891]

Yesterdays Enterprise 😙👌🏼

[@jamesaugust7498]

That sweater! :D Love the channel. So the good news is that Tasha's death affected the crew so much that she is mentioned on many other episodes. We even learn more about here backstory.

[@meowmeow83]

Fellow Canadian Jen! Re-watching these TNG episodes with you takes me back in time pun intended .. ;-) when I was a kid. Love your commentary and I am so happy to be able to watch one of my favourite shows with someone who equally appreciates this gem of a series.

[@JKM395]

We probably all felt the same way you did when we saw Tasha fall. I was 10 when this aired and I was watching it with my mother. I was positive that she was going to be saved and dumbfounded when she wasn't. I think it made the series much more serious to me than it had been previously.

[@roxerforlife3663]

Hell 😭😭 everytime i cry floods of tears... I say part of Tasha's speech if i loose a loved one "death exisits in the mind of those left behind" 😭

[@Suchega_Uber]

I am so happy I stumbled across this channel. I am seeing these episodes for the first time through you and it really makes these watchalongs special. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@Tiffinki]

Jen, as a young man, I saw the episode first-run. I reacted in the same way you did; only the details were different. Tasha's death knocked you for a major loop. It brought a tear to my eye in 1988. Seeing the episode once more through your eyes, it did so again. I can tell that these events left you with serious hard feelings against Armus. I'm right with you on that.

[@Kap00rwith2os]

32:02 "No one died! Hay!" lol Hooray for small victories 😁

[@noneya3635]

I always thought that the aliens that shocked their evil and became beings of light were either the Metrons form Arena or the Organians. I’d like to see Armus revisited by a competent trek writer. One of Data’s finest moments, “I think you should be destroyed!” Damn right! The death of Yar was something we all believed would be reversed right up until they destroyed the shuttle.

[@billparrish4385]

So yeah, Jenice Manheim, Picard's old flame? That'll be Michelle Phillips, of the singing group The Mamas and The Papas!

[@kennethspears22]

Picard was Paris Dreaming.

[@bluebear1985]

I think Michelle Phillips is the last surviving member of the group. John Phillips, Denny Doherty, and Cass Elliott have unfortunately all left us.

[@RandomNonsense1985]

And she looked like she was 30 when she was 40…TBF she looked like she was 15 when she was in her 20s.

[@jagger2001]

I watched TNG when it was new, and i was still young so i don't recall how i felt or reacted to Tasha's death. To find someone who is not familiar enough with Trek lore to know when things like this are coming is so rare, and so interesting to see it from the perspective of someone who is so genuinely invested. Thank you for your patience through season 1 and i hope you'll continue on to other Trek series as well! LLAP 🖖

[@Swordsfor200Alex]

Hello Jen as a few people have noted on here already, Jenice Manheim was played by Michelle Phillips. She was an original member of the 60's legendary band "The Mama's and the Papa's. With classic hits such as "California Dreamin" and "Monday, Monday". She also moved into Hollywood (films and TV) after her musical career ended. She was a featured star of the prime-time soap "Knots Landing", a Dallas spinoff set in California.

[@markjuarez1791]

Splendid reactions, Jen. I just love that in dealing with the death of a character that you needed a snack. Now I want to know what that snack was. Pretzels? Cookies? Candy bar? Or was it a real emergency and you needed a banana split?

[@Limerick98]

Tasha Yar was my first crush. After this episode I wrote an. .. aggressive letter to Gene Roddenberry and never fully recovered. True love.

[@cloudwatcher608]

I can remember when I first watched Tasha’s funeral scene when I was a kid, it may have been the first time I was really touched to the point of tears from a fictional story. Crosby and everyone acted that scene so well, and even though they had such a short time together, it really hits home

[@darkshadow31415]

We totally want "Next Jenn Sunday" merch!

[@sluglife9785]

Hey. The actor playing Dr. Mannheim was Freud in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure!

[@mafmaf82]

Symbiosis was filmed after Skin Of Evil. At the end of that episode, you can see her waving goodbye in the distance in the cargo bay.

[@smadaf]

13:12 Windows XP on the holodeck!

[@DoctorStagger]

The world is, at present, a dark and bleak place. But Jen, your smile, your laugh and your enthusiasm have the potential to stop any war on the planet. 🥰🤭🥰😘 xxxx

[@bleidddrwg9847]

At last... we have free place for a new tactical officer :)

[@mr.joshua6818]

Too soon 😢

[@MarkEvans-xw5ix]

The black goo monster scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. Nothing else in Trek did that. Edit: I forgot about Riker being pulled into the tar, I think that's also what messed me up.

[@Drforrester31]

Yeah, the tar monster would have definitely freaked me out as a kid

[@CaptainQ2607]

She was such a promising character 😢

[@jkhoover]

Guess what happens in this episode... We kept a secret.

[@danielyeshe]

I am amazed you were able to not be spoiled on what happened to Yar. Very good.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

5:23 Mark! Hmm. I think it was this very episode that gave her the time and the incentive to accept an offer from "Playboy Magazine"? 🤔 The picture set included her posing as "Natasha Yar" as well as older pictures of her as herself from her younger ages plus newer ones. It has been decades since I perused that issue. I intended to have her sign it, and it probably never got unpacked. 🤔

[@albertmartinez2539]

The Playboy pictures happened before Star Trek, I believe. At the time she was chosen for a pictorial, Denise had long hair. The day before the pictorial, she cut her hair short, on a whim. When she showed up, the photographer was upset, but they carried forward with the shoot. She's had the short hair ever since.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

@albertmartinez2539 ! Ah, okay! Timelines, like that mess with my mind! The pictures that I saw were old and new, but maybe the magazine used some when she wasn't the cover girl, but my memory cells filed them as one event? 🤔 Shannon Doherty was the hostess of a prank show with an SF theme. She supposedly spoiled the illusion of the series being done live by revealing that her whole season's worth of camera time was done during 10 hours of one day! They got mad at her for that, though, I thought it was unfair because both Ricki Lake and Jenny... a blonde whose surname I'm forgetting now made no secret of how many episodes of their respective talk shows were made in one day! 😳 With details like that in mind, I wouldn't try to guess how far in advance a magazine is made ahead of the release date printed on the cover, which for monthly magazines is put out a month early. 😀 Plus, at conventions, no one seems to be able to be consistent during repeats of anecdotes! Someone is always in the restroom or eating and misses when the question was asked the first time, so he or she repeats it! To avoid boredom, the answers get changed a little. Kevin Sorbo tried to keep himself and "Hercules" separate, but eventually, he gave up and answered as himself! By the way! Denise! On stage, she would fidget with her folding chair or sitting position, but behind her were big screens for the people in the "General Admission" bleachers, and to the video camera, she looked sexy doing those moves! In the front row, I was able to see how different it looked! In the back, people on stage are ant-sized, and on screen, they look doll-sized, like "Barbie"! So their impressions of her were different! With poor Jennifer Lien, some moron thought that she was high because she's an actress! I had to correct him on several issues! It helped that I had just talked to her before she was on stage, as I got her autograph. She complained about something, and as an allergy sufferer myself, I recognized what she was suffering from, and as it was her first time in Oklahoma, she was unaware of her allergies to what was affecting her then! Her assistants got her some allergy medication that was making her drowsy by the time she was on stage. I wouldn't have thought that so many dummies would presume she was high! Mostly visitors from out of state that had no allergies and were clueless! But my points are perception! Perception! Perception! Thanks for your clarification! 🖖

[@joemagnus5085]

Almost definitely was Sir Patrick fencing. Its part of his Shakespeare company training

[@RetroClassic66]

31:16 “We’ll always have Paris” is a famous line from CASABLANCA (1942), which I know you’re due to watch for the first time this week (or maybe you have already). It’ll be interesting if you recognize it during the film.

[@pauld6967]

Jen, your reaction to _'Skin of Evil'_ is much the same as my friends and I watching the broadcast as a group. Long before spoilers on the Internet.

[@JBob-qv2fd]

Losing Yar made space for Worf to grow. And that worked out very well.

[@edfrancis66]

From what I read in the 90s, Denise Crosby decided to leave because she felt a lack of character development for Tasha, and she wanted more. A pity, because most of the other main characters were really fleshed out in the next couple of seasons. And IIRC, it was Roddenberry's idea that she die an unceremonious death, no heroic struggles or sacrifice for others -- a meaningless end that might be expected of a security officer. That never sat well with many, and there is a bit of redemption later ... I cannot say more!

[@tvdroid22]

She didn't even get to die in a red shirt!

[@izzonj]

Jenice Manheim is played by Michelle Phillips, of the "Mamas and the Papas"

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

17:01 Mark! Both he and William Shatner are trained "Shakesperian Actors" and, as such, "Fencing" and related courses would be a part of it. But I think "Kirk" has had more sword fights, right? 🤺

[@qbasicmichael]

If you go back to the end of "symbiosis", when picard and crusher leave the transporter, look over picard's shoulder. You can see denise crosby wave goodbye in the background very briefly. Now we can finally tell you about it.

[@Sough]

The indignity at the commercial breakloo

[@theblackwidowchronicles]

Serious jumper you have on Jen....I need one immediately !!

[@ChrisReise]

14:57 Loved your closing remarks for "Skin of Evil" with your thousand questions and your rambling on about no one being safe, Riker's beard etc etc. It was exactly MY reaction when I first saw this episode.

[@lowenzahn3976]

13:19 That Windows XP wallpaper 🪦

[@JJ_W]

"Bliss", as I recall. 🌄

[@JeffreyCantelope]

In episode 24 one of the guest stars was a member of the 60's singing the Mamas and the Papas

[@awmperry]

“We’re messing around with time. I like it!” Welcome to Star Trek TNG. ;-) There’s another time episode later on (among many on this show) that’s one of my favourites. I’ll say no more than that.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

31:15 Mark! Aha! You hit upon a point that was resolved by the show runners of "The Orville"! They came up with a location neutral term! Ships have decks, hence the term "Holodeck"! Quark, though, aboard a space station, would still have similar terminology. But he also had a built-in hotel comprised of "holosuites" so that guests could program their rooms! But both terms are based on location. Yet, laymen, somehow ignorant of that aspect, applied both terms in a reckless way. But thanks to "The Orville" we now have a better term that isn't dependent on the exterior setting. However, as an initialism or acronym, I forget which term. laymen will want to genericize it! So "simulator" is the better generic term without trying to be technical! 😊

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

5:24 Mark! I had to activate the "CC" to confirm what I thought I heard you saying about "goo" and "come"! No puns, innuendo, et al, intended?! Just sweet Jen Murray innocence! ❤

[@jishin75]

Thanks for the reaction, This goodbye by Tasha was very well done (at least her speech to the other crew members and friends.) Curiously, we learn more about Picard and Data here than Tasha! The first season has its flaws, but it was sowing for the future seasons. Here it's where the engines start running.

[@athanatic]

With the addition of obvious replicators and the holodeck, they start talking about teleportation "Pattern Buffers" essentially keeping someone frozen in time on a big hard drive, sorta (depends on writing...) But it enters the plot for certain!

[@JoshuaDMaley]

I've really come to look forward to Sundays. I've seen this series a dozen times but it's so exciting to see it through fresh eyes. Skin of Evil was the first big episode I couldn't wait to get to. There are so many more. Thanks for sharing your journey with us, it's a lot of fun to see you see this and there are so many amazing moments yet to come. Can't wait for it!

[@jenmurrayxo]

I'm loving watching Trek with you guys too! 🖖

[@ListerDavid]

And it was at that moment 4:57 we realised no one on the bridge was safe anymore.

[@nealsterling8151]

It may sound a bit harsh, but to me "Skin of Evil" marks the end of the first season and the start of TNG (Season 2 has it's ups and downs, but it gets better). Btw. Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) is the Stuart Sutcliffe of Star Trek.

[@JJ_W]

Interesting comparison. I suppose Sutcliffe the first Beatle to die?

[@nealsterling8151]

@@JJ_W He didn't die, but he left the band before it got famous. As far as i know Crosby left TNG, because she was unhappy that she had only a few character scenes in the whole season. After she left she got no decent roles anymore, while TNG became hugely popular in the following years.

[@DoerOfThings8]

"We'll always have Paris." Have you seen Casablanca? That's where the line is from. It would make a good reaction for the channel and I think you would enjoy it.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Casablanca is posting tomorrow

[@ammaleslie509]

​@@jenmurrayxoOOO! I'm very excited to hear that!!!

[@MGower4465]

I just wish we had had a chance to understand Yar better. She could very well have been one of the most complex characters on the show. I think she felt similar to Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) in TOS, that her character was an afterthought at best, and Crosby didn't have someone talk her out of hanging it up at the first chance.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

15:03 Mark! Behind-the-scenes stuff, be damned! This is still an emotional episode for me. For one, I wouldn't see "DC" act again until she appeared as a mother in the movie "Deep Impact"! I'm not sure if I've seen her acting since. 🤔 But anyway, it also frustrated me from then on whenever I attended funerals because they aren't as high-tech as this one. (Though slide shows have been added.) I would rather be converted into a holographic AI, but we aren't there yet. We're still primitives. 😢 Yes, I know, it was a big presumption to think that's what they did with her body! 😮

[@jondorsey2043]

As Scotty once said, "If it's importawnt, ye make the time."

[@AXSLA3]

Did you know that when they made the casting for the series, Marina Sirtis was going to play the security chief and Denise Crosby was going to be the counselor. But after they made their castings, Gene Roddenberry decided to switch roles for them.

[@DarlKaman]

"I DO" @22:49 was very good lol. Thanks for all the great reactions, Jen.

[@anonymes2884]

Hah, i've heard of "plot armour" but I think this is my first time encountering "beard armour" :). Yep, Tasha's death is among the most affecting in Trek IMO. All the moreso because, off the usual pattern, she didn't have some big, heroic self-sacrificial exit, she just got killed doing her job, like could happen to anyone. And her parting words are beautifully written (if, before I go, someone I know were to say of me I had "the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet"... well, I think I could go happy).