Star Trek : TNG - Data Construct a Complex Device with 19th Century Technologies

Star Trek : TNG - Data Construct a Complex Device with 19th Century Technologies...
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[@gregquinn7817]

I love that data immediately becomes independently wealthy. Starts building a super high tech device and finds Guinan. Meanwhile Picard, Riker, Crusher, LaForge and Troi are deadbeats who can't pay rent.

[@danthemankhan]

That's America, the real "utopia".

[@darylfoster7944]

That's AI kicking the ass of humans

[@carminemurray6624]

@@darylfoster7944 Who developed AI in the first place.

[@darylfoster7944]

@@carminemurray6624 irrelevant to my comment

[@murphyjackedoff5970]

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay / So I can sit out here and waste my life away / Drag back home and drown my troubles away. Pre-Chorus: It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to / For people like me and people like you / Wish I could just wake up and it not be true / But it is, oh, it is. Chorus: Livin' in the new world / With an old soul / These rich men north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just wanna have total control / Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do / And they don't think you know, but I know that you do / 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end / 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond. I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere / Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat / And the obese milkin' welfare. Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds / Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down. Repeat Pre-Chorus Repeat Chorus I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay. Read More: The Lyrics to Oliver Anthony's 'Rich Men North of Richmond' | tasteofcountry.com/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-lyrics/? I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay / So I can sit out here and waste my life away / Drag back home and drown my troubles away. Pre-Chorus: It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to / For people like me and people like you / Wish I could just wake up and it not be true / But it is, oh, it is. Chorus: Livin' in the new world / With an old soul / These rich men north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just wanna have total control / Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do / And they don't think you know, but I know that you do / 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end / 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond. I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere / Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat / And the obese milkin' welfare. Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds / Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down. Repeat Pre-Chorus Repeat Chorus I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay.

[@MrRaindog]

"Ow. I believe I have overexerted myself." Gets me every time.

[@michaeledmunds7056]

Yeah, Data wouldn't make it as an actor. 😂

[@misterwhipple2870]

The thing that bothers me is that the anvil weighs more than Data does, so, no matter how strong he is, he cannot pick it up with one hand because it would throw him way out of balance. It may weigh twice as much as him.

[@michaeledmunds7056]

@@misterwhipple2870 Data is an android, he's pretty heavy.

[@misterwhipple2870]

@@michaeledmunds7056 I saw Riker pick him up and carry him once.

[@MrV902]

@@misterwhipple2870 He likely had a load-bearing algorithm that allows him to shift his weight as necessary so as to not become unstable while carrying heavy objects.

[@RpTheHotrod]

I love that subtle glance Data gives to check the kids reaction to his attempt at recovering from showing off his strength with the anvil.

[@raven4k998]

I love how he makes something like that out of old obsolete tech it makes me wonder if those crack pots that claims to make an anti gravity device and then forgets the configuration maybe he lost out for not recording the settings for anti gravity on that device he may have accidently figured out future tech with our outdate antique tech or the setting worked but he burned out the anti grav part

[@KeyboardBuster]

@@raven4k998 I love run on sentences too.

[@varlunmulland3992]

@@raven4k998 I don't read giant blocks of garbage without any punctuation.

[@Scipio488]

This is first time I ever noticed it 😀

[@mattrubin89]

Such an underrated actor.

[@LordBloodraven]

The sad thing is that Jack London's ship of gold did come in. He took part in the Klondike Gold Rush, but the terrible labor conditions led to him and many others contracting scurvy. Jack London was relatively lucky, only losing 4 teeth. These experiences motivated him to become a writer, political activist with pro-labor leanings.

[@Grothgerek]

Kind of ironic and fitting for Star Trek, that the character they used is a "communist".

[@tsm688]

the hell of it was they already knew how scurvy worked.

[@LordBloodraven]

@Grothgerek He lived in a time when any attempt to unionize was met with violence and murder. The Ludlow Massacre dragged the crimes of John D. Rockefeller and his ilk into the light, but for them, it was business as usual. Meanwhile, Jack London made his own wealth with novels like Gone with the Wind and White Fang... yet you call him a communist, like an ignorant punk.

[@Some_Idiot_on_the_Internet]

@@Grothgerek He was more than a hero, he was union man.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Wasn't he also a bitter drunk?

[@Shiirow]

Kirk : Spock, what is he doing? Spock : I believe he is trying to make a futuristic device using stone knives and bear skins.

[@northhavencreative]

Those who know, know that Data is talking to Jack London in this scene (one of the early influential writers of the genre that would become Science Fiction).

[@danielcarroll3358]

Oyster pirate clued me.

[@toomanyaccounts]

Jack London wrote about Alaska. You are confusing him with Mark Twain

[@danielcarroll3358]

@@toomanyaccounts And he also lived in Oakland California and, among his many adventures, purloined oysters on San Francisco Bay. He was a man of many sides. Interesting politics too.

[@CavemanCBB]

Thank you. I guessed that there was some sort of tie in to something/someone there and I never knew what it was.

[@lingeriedeparis7274]

One or two extra lines explaining who the boy was and his future would have been a real kicker

[@tayzonday]

That phaser is definitely not a 19th century technology ❤️

[@juanc5149]

Lol. You appear in the most random places.

[@Slopmaster]

Just ask the US Navy 😜

[@BlakeRPeters]

Always wonderful to see you pop up! I hope you are well.

[@seriascannain6675]

Neither is Data, nor his com badge however Data utilised 19th century technology to build "whatever it was"!

[@darthkek1953]

It was in England, sir. In ENGLAND!

[@danielclawson2099]

Not only is Data obviously strong, but the way he doesn't have to shift his center of balance indicates his much higher than human mass, and density.

[@darylfoster7944]

Seems odd that something so technologically advanced would be so heavy. Isn't it a function of the leverage of the pullies in its arm?

[@sarcasticguy4311]

OR the prop was made of styrofoam.

[@danielclawson2099]

@@sarcasticguy4311No! Say it ain't so!

[@sarcasticguy4311]

@@danielclawson2099 Haha. There's probably an outtake somewhere where the bellhop twirls it on his finger or they throw it at each other before the cameras start.

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

And the fact that the bellhop couldn't figure out a smarter way to carry an anvil, 'sold' me on the fact that he's a salesman

[@oldsoul3539]

That's at least the second time they had Data lift an anvil, I think the last time it fell on a blacksmith's foot

[@edwardianed]

This is the first time, the blacksmith foot incident was after this.

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

Nah, that was Jayden the Iceman you're thinking of. Easy mistake to make. edit: fixed

[@Yaapo]

@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III Jayden* But yeah

[@Bubbles99718]

​@@edwardianed Centuries after this

[@bjsimon802]

I wish they had a show with Data's adventures to other worlds.

[@raven4k998]

imagine you try it and by accident make a shield generator what would you do then try making a stronger version of it?🤣

[@aluisious]

That show was Star Trek.

[@odysseusrex5908]

I would have liked to have seen an episode where they visited Mudd's planet. I think Data's reaction to those androids would have been interesting. I remember, when I first heard about the character prior to the show's premier, I assumed Data was going to be from there. I was rather surprised when they revived the endlessly overdone lone scientist trope.

[@Chris.starfleet]

That look Data has at the end ... that's real emotion.

[@andrewolson5471]

Data trying to figure out the 19th century slang is pretty funny.

[@seriascannain6675]

It is sometimes funny watching people trying to figure out slang who are not familiar with it especially when they misunderstand or give the wrong impression!

[@BillOweninOttawa]

Also nonsense as that is something that he would have known.

[@pwnmeisterage]

Why would Data understand the slang spoken in one region of Earth half a thousand years ago? He has an amazing capacity to learn but he didn't have enough time to learn much of it in the episode and I doubt he has a comprehensive database of useless/dead languages known only to specialized historians and linguists. How much 15th century slang does Google Translate know?

[@seriascannain6675]

@@pwnmeisterage Not necessarily, there are undoubtedly databases containing slang of 19th century Earth (which theoretically should be available in the 24th century) and Data can learn languages very quickly! I believe the communicator is equipped with a Universal translator or Data may have an inbuilt Universal translator. Data is also a big Sherlock Holmes fan so he may be familiar with some 19th century vocabulary, I realise the difference between how British people and Americans spoke in the 19th century would be quite pronounced!

[@humanchannel9421]

​@@pwnmeisterage he could pick up on their slang instantly without much trouble

[@adamb89]

I love how there's actual grease stains on the newspaper from whatever that pastry thing is.

[@kirishima638]

I loved this episode. The cast look like that had a lot of fun making and it and seeing Data make his way so successfully in 1890s America was a treat. The second part/ending was a bit weak though.

[@nepntzerZer]

thats because they spent all their money on hiring out the 1800's theme park and costumes. it also didn;t help the entire cast was coming down on an epic cocaine fuelled rampage.

[@ericconnor8419]

I hate the way that they could travel anywhere in space and time but always end up in America between 1750 and 1990, and all the actors speak with modern American accents regardless of location and time period. It is as bad as the TARDIS spending 90% of it's time in London or Wales.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Just keep supporting the current thing! You doing exceptionally well.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@ericconnor8419 Yes, I hated that too but it was even worst. All the sports and cultural characteristic of the whole mankind was typically american and american only. When they discovered a new species there was different colored people living together what means there was colonization or slavery in one point of the alien planet's history what is not a good thing, good thing should be the races living separatelly because this means there was no colonization. Also those cultures usualy ruled by white people. I can forgive the accent because it is expensive to do it right and because there is an "universal translator" but the time travel episodes were just bullshit and it was so american the writers unwillingly killed every nation on the earth except the american. I mean it is clear the USA colonized the whole earth after they nuked everybody because there is no way the american culture would dominate the planet in the XXIV. century.

[@kirishima638]

@@Zodroo_Tint ???

[@FreakyLynx]

I really miss this show, had something that’s just missing in shows these days.

[@tcmtech7515]

It wasn't woke. That's what made it work.

[@matthewcampbell7286]

@@tcmtech7515Define woke? If you talking about social commentary TNG just like TOS was absolutely hate by the conservative right. Star trek always held humanism / secular values. It also tried to explore uncomfortable topics. Looking back at TNG from 2023 and thinking its not woke is more an indication of the cultural shift from its original airing.

[@tcmtech7515]

@@matthewcampbell7286 I take it you have no clue how/what the difference between classical liberalism (TNG) and modern leftism (social marxism for reee tar ds) is? No, TNG was not hated by conservatives by any means. It was wildly popular with them.

[@robinfiler8707]

@@tcmtech7515 the federation is actual Marxism though. Just full on Marxism.

[@tcmtech7515]

@@robinfiler8707 Hence why it was fantasy built on ideas that are impossible in reality. 😂

[@NoahSpurrier]

Some youngsters might miss the fact that Data is talking to Jack London in this scene.

[@mrc3584]

Wait, what??

[@animesavedmylife3648]

I was wondering who it was. I thought it might be like Star Trek IV.

[@NoahSpurrier]

@@mrc3584 Of course, I meant Jack London, the author. It isn’t said for sure in this episode, but Data does call him Jack, and Jack mentions his ambitions and past jobs, including oyster pirate, which were all unusual jobs Jack London was known for, and Jack London was a San Francisco resident at this period of time.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@@NoahSpurrier Is this a simulation or did Data really go back in time?

[@AFourEyedGeek]

@@nocturnalrecluse1216 It is a two part time travel episode, he gets a bit too excited and loses his head over the adventure.

[@williamsquires3070]

Data builds a scale model prototype of the Death Star laser. 😂

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

Same power tho.

[@TorstenAdair]

Actually.... ;) It's a phase discriminator, so that Data can locate the glowing vampires.

[@jingbot1071]

That's my favorite star trek ship!

[@greg61377]

Good memories of my dad died in 94. Used to come home everyday 530 to watch old star trek. Then tng, didn't matter where I was or who I was with 530. I was there.

[@Gensys0]

Now that I think about it, Data is probably my first favourite character from any TV show, since I pretty much have watched Star Trek TNG my whole life.

[@brianwinters5434]

This reminds me of Spock in City on the edge of forever.

[@JB-yb4wn]

Spock had more advanced technology to work with.

[@davidreeves4556]

@@JB-yb4wn but no money

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@davidreeves4556 Not that many chess gamblers.

[@AurizenDarkstar]

This was Data's 'stone knives and bearskins' moment. 😅

[@ProfChaos1985]

Jack mentioned making a million dollars from the "motor". That seems really high for 1893.

[@Koshiro2k3]

It would be ~30 million today. So, yes, really high. But not outlandishly so, in Jack's mind at least. You have to consider that this was the age of people like John D. Rockefeller, who quickly amassed fortunes that would be the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars in today's money.

[@ProfChaos1985]

@@Koshiro2k3 I did research a little. There were definitely a few people that had more money than that, but this definitely would have put you in 1%

[@HariSeldon913]

Also bear in mind that Jack dreams BIG. Of course he's going to add that extra zero.

[@schumi9xwdc]

Not really, 1st Million dollar boxing purse was in 1921

[@ProfChaos1985]

@@schumi9xwdc which is after 1893. Inflation happened.

[@christiangibbs8534]

0:30 Casually carries anvil with one hand then realizes his mistake: "...Ow."

[@adamguerrero5293]

"I believe I have given you an erroneous impression" concerning the "American dream" was well ahead of its time

[@Southside1983]

I'm surprised that Data did not, at some point, say that he was using "Stone Knives and Bearskins".

[@captmurdock]

Spock: "[Build a mnemonic memory circuit] in this zinc-plated, vacuum-tubed culture?!" Data: "Hold my phase discriminator."

[@mrparkerdan]

Missed opportunity 😒

[@Bubbles99718]

​@captmurdock "sometimes I ask too much of you..."

[@dhh1979]

Always wondered what happened to his invention when Picard is transported back to the future.

[@toomanyaccounts]

the Temporal Bureau of Starfleet came in to clean up the mess.

[@Author-Chad_Kunego]

Tesla stumbled across it

[@darylfoster7944]

@@Author-Chad_Kunego the original Tesla, or Elon's company?

[@Author-Chad_Kunego]

@@darylfoster7944 Nikola Tesla... That's my story and I'm sticking to it :)

[@kida9195]

It’s interesting to consider that we have technology today that could one day be fashioned together in a unique way as to achieve another technology that would be almost magic. It’s probably the most random pieces of technology too. Something like a LiDAR sensor, a plastic bottle, a pencil, and a car lighter.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

[@normanstevens4924]

@@odysseusrex5908 Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

[@pol191919]

Can't stay in one place for too long... words to live by

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

Terrible advice imo, unless you tend to burn bridges =)

[@mikevanroy9356]

Usually anvils are just dropped on road runners.

[@sirreal1290]

According to Warner Bros, the anvil is "intended" to fall on the road runner, but ends up pulverizing the coyote.

[@derekstaroba]

I concur

[@madscientist8286]

Meep Meep! :O

[@misterwhipple2870]

More coyotes have been squished by anvils than any other Earth species.

[@marcusdenning1649]

My favorite Star Trek series of all time. Loved this particular episode (2)

[@liverpoollad9103]

which ep is this mate?

[@marcusdenning1649]

@@liverpoollad9103 i watched it in 92 I believe was on break in grad school. I was annoyed I had to wait till fall to see how it went

[@dbg32]

@@liverpoollad9103 Time’s Arrow part two.

[@liverpoollad9103]

@@dbg32 thanks mate

[@Alaric11]

I like that Data only responds "perhaps" when asked about the future of cars. Doesn't want to screw with the timeline more than necessary.

[@johnmooney9444]

That was an excellent show, 2 episodes as I recall.

[@UsernameNeutrality]

Data was so real for this. Bell-hop: "Isn't that what makes America great?" Data: "To what are you referring?" Bell-hop: "Well, a man rides into town in his pajama's, wins a grub stake at a poker table, turns it into a horseless carriage and makes a million bucks? That's America." Data: "I believe I have given you an erroneous impression." LOL

[@ziraprod6090]

That he is not an inventor.

[@Adrian2140]

Technically he cheated with his android senses and stole that money so yeah you're right lol.

[@schumi9xwdc]

@@Adrian2140 how did he cheat? Counting Cards is not cheating, sorry to inform you

[@Adrian2140]

@@schumi9xwdc counting cards, literal pokerface with no expressions, ability to read people using better and more accurate sensors than the rest at the table. Id never play poker with Data for the same reasons I wouldn't hand wrestle him.

[@pwnmeisterage]

@@schumi9xwdc Casinos would disagree. They're well aware of the rules and methods, "card counting" is not cheating and it's not really possible in casino gaming anyhow. But casinos don't like people who take too many consistent winnings, if your winning activities aren't generating other revenue (from onlookers) then you'll be offered some complimentary alcohol for a while before being politely escorted off premises.

[@reciprocal1046]

I thought data couldn’t lie, “ow I believe I’ve over exerted myself” 😂

[@alanbeaumont4848]

He "implied".

[@tsm688]

Sure he can lie. But there's usually no point in trying XD

[@pwnmeisterage]

Data is capable of lying. Fabricating, exagerrating, elaborating, misleading, deceiving. He does it many times over the series. But Data is ethical. He prefers truth and honesty.

[@jdotoz]

He’s acting

[@jplayzow]

He also has a duty to not completely destroy the timelines of wherever he ends up@@pwnmeisterage

[@biglos9d]

When he said he worked in a cannery, I was like, is that supposed to be Jack London?

[@stanleywiggins5047]

Might have to pull out my DVDS & dust em off, these little clips reminded me I haven't watched the Next generation for over a year 😊

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Data and Jack would make a good team. 😂

[@randywarren7101]

This reminds me of the TOS episode which Kirk and Spock goes back in time through the Guardian Of Forever to 1930's New York. The episode with Joan Collins as Edith Keeler.

[@misterwhipple2870]

Joan Collins aged a lot better that Guinan, that's for sure!

[@matthewjordan9043]

"YOU'VE had a considerable spectrum of occupations" - Data at 1:57

[@Wyrdwad]

I hear "you have," spoken quickly. Definitely doesn't sound like a contraction to me. I always thought the whole "Data can't say contractions" thing was really stupid, though! And the writers inadvertently (or perhaps subconsciously) slipped some into his speech all the time, so I guess they did too. ;)

[@vassa1972]

Loved the next generation star trek

[@nfrl-hs2ly]

I'll take this to my grave, steampunk Trek is the best Trek

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

Data's child-like innocence is always so fun!

[@moabman6803]

These stories are so well written it should be criminal

[@mrparkerdan]

No, what’s criminal is the crap on TV nowadays 😒

[@LarryPanozzo]

It won 2 Emmy Awards for costume design and for hairstyling

[@jonothanthrace1530]

"Oyster pirate" sounds like a pretty great job.

[@odysseusrex5908]

It's remarkable what you can do with stone knives and bear skins.

[@timothygibney159]

Arrow and the borg invasion were my favorite STNG cliffhangers

[@Jguthro]

I thought Data couldn't use contractions, but he said "gonna"

[@drefrazier4266]

Gonna's not a contraction but it's still absurd he should have that limitation. They should've wrote it out of the series early on

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

Data seems to have a thing with picking up anvils.

[@emanemanrus5835]

the youtube caption of this clip is beyond amazing. Data seems to be DJing in a club at the console. 😁🎉

[@Dtitilator]

1:21 *What makes America great* - To paraphrase what he said; he meant an individual can come to this country with just the shirt on his back and make it big as long as he put in the work behind his ideas & dreams.

[@ianharac5153]

They missed a chance to use Spock's "stone knives and bearskins" line from City on the Edge of Forever. It would have been a nice homage.

[@jim2lane]

Time's Arrow - the best two part episode of this amazing show. More engaging and entertaining than The Best of Both Worlds IMHO 😊😊

[@houseofno]

In defense of the Best Of Both Worlds, that episode is credited with saving the show. While the first and second seasons were fairly innovative, the show was previously criticized for being cerebral and dull, lacking in visual excitement and straightforward action that the original Star Trek series enjoyed. Best Of Both Worlds is credited rightly with saving the show, and adjusting its course to ensure the show's success.

[@jim2lane]

@@houseofno - I would never say TBOBW was a sub-par episode(s) - just that IMHO Time's Arrow is superior

[@hackembacker]

Time's Arrow? "Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana." Groucho Marx

[@SO_DIGITAL]

Doc Brown made time circuits using 1955 components.

[@kellerweskier7214]

this was a fun episode

[@OldieWan]

My great grandfather left me his phaser from the 19th century. With a little note that read. I am sure you will be able to make something out of this one day. 😆😆😆😆

[@peeweeson]

1:06 one of them horseless carriages but electric!

[@StarfruitsurfridaHHH]

This show just got way. too. fucking. real.

[@markmed9091]

Random punctuation and a F Bomb . Very impressive.

[@StarfruitsurfridaHHH]

Mark, it's to add emphasis you fucking square.

[@superhayes256]

@@markmed9091 are you five? Lol adults can say any words they want.

[@surengrigorian7888]

@@superhayes256 They can. It does demonstrate their turpitude of character to external observers, however.

[@superhayes256]

@@surengrigorian7888 if you think the word fuck determines or has any impact anyone’s character then yours is the weaker character.

[@counttommymarion7319]

Those are fun to make. It is a very old patton.

[@EmeraldView]

You can see how excited Data gets over an upcoming literary reception. He's such nerd!

[@HallyVee]

Real Tim Roth vibes from that Bell Hop. (the movie is Four Rooms)

[@jasonluong3862]

The music in this episode is great.

[@Ti-nf4fq]

Kind of like Spock in city at the edge of Tomorrow.

[@phoenixman8569]

This was one of those two parter episodes the season ended in the spring and you had to wait until the fall in September to see its conclusion, also not just S.T.N.G but September was the time of the year when all the new shows started, I dont remember exactly what this time of the year was refered to, but it runs along the line of the September fall preview or somthing like that..

[@Deciheximal]

"This is normal. Human lookalikes are common across the ages. Ignore."

[@Bubbles99718]

He's French here. Hope that wraps it up for you. :)

[@Nighthawke70]

You look at Guinan's picture in the newspaper. In that era, they use woodcut. This is a HALFTONE photograph, not yet invented until the 1869, quality images like this one was not until much later.

[@paulsarnik8506]

If Spock was using "stone knives and bearskins" what was Data using?🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎🖖🏻

[@thomasnettles989]

Chewing gum and bailing wire lol

[@DamplyDoo]

This show is so darn good

[@YD-uq5fi]

"What do you think it is......gonna be?" Hey, he used a contraction!!

[@bentencho]

Maybe Data actually already knows who the bellhop is... thus did his best to make sure Jack doesn't deviate from the timeline.

[@pqfboxing358]

To what are you referring?

[@bentencho]

@@pqfboxing358 the bellhop is supposed to be Jack London. If Data went along with the creation and selling of automobiles with Jack, it will really mess up the temporal directive.

[@BigTeo]

love that little second look at john after he sits down

[@cloverfield911]

DATA's MacGyver moment

[@suluturnip]

this is how the conversation went with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

[@pwnmeisterage]

Wozniak the brilliant inventor/builder/engineer and Jobs the greedy entrepreneur/salesman/capitalist?

[@suluturnip]

You’re pretty stupid. You shouldn’t let people see it.

[@cordongrouch9323]

Guinan. Ouch.

[@OldMastyr3]

Guinan. Cvnt.

[@Ragitsu]

@@OldMastyr3 Right-wing chode.

[@sproctor1958]

Deja Vu. ...Bearskins and stone knives...

[@9Tailsfan]

MacGuyver would be impressed! 💯

[@RobertEskuri]

Data is wise to keep a low profile around him because he sounds like a Ferengi.

[@IARRCSim]

0:26 to 0:37 "I believe I have overexerted myself" lol I'll try to use that relaxed tone the next time I pull a muscle.

[@wyvvernstone]

Data totally lied his ass off to the bellhop about the anvil. Lol...

[@SheldonAdama17]

A step up from stone knives and bearskins

[@rascallyrabbit8548]

i'm sure Data has a few bits'n pieces he can contribute and the phaser

[@vassa1972]

Brent spinner was great as data

[@JSTrudel]

1:05 He used a contraction!

[@808ERIC808ERIC]

Data would be an excellent entrepreneur

[@banditt18]

hot question. ok during the pocker sceene when data sold his communicator would that not have a impact on the future since it is technology from the future or did i miss something in any explanation on why it was allowed to be left in the past?

[@whompronnie]

He probably won it back as he won everything else at the table. I know Marc Alaimo 'bought' it from him, but I don't doubt Data would have bought it back at a greatly inflated sum. Also, it's easily traced, so a temporal cleanup team from the 29th century probably came and got it if it were left behind

[@banditt18]

@@whompronnie now that's a valid point right there i forgot about the time ship

[@tsm688]

a communicator is useless without the ship. Nobody would recognize it as anything but a pin.

[@SchlossRitter]

I always assumed he bought it back with part of his winnings. My bigger concern is how the timeline was affected by one of the gamblers that was supposed to win instead getting bankrupted. That would affect his future decisions and the people around him.

[@tsm688]

@@SchlossRitter Since it ended up being a time loop, they weren't actually changing the past, just fulfilling it. Finding data's head proved it was supposed to happen, up to and including those gambling wins/losses

[@gottago671]

Couldn't you argue that gonna is a contraction?

[@jondonnelly4831]

What episode is this from, i wanna watch it again been like a decade

[@pauljefferies2091]

Data thought bubble "Hey....that's that dumb lady from the View!"

[@justforyou8790]

i think data could have become a regular worker and be rich with that aswell. he picked up that boulder with relative easy, makes earning money such a breeze when you are better at everything the everyone around you

[@davidstout6051]

Steampunk meets Star Trek

[@YD-uq5fi]

Jack London is an excellent Ferengi.

[@family-accountemail9111]

There is an anvil in an abandoned property near me I can't move it a millimetre!

[@robertengland8769]

I'd go with Data's gut anytime. Gotta like that android.

[@caramel7149]

Data in his own Isekai.

[@randyhorne1067]

Mr Spock had to do the same in the original series

[@GeomancerHT]

I learned all from an old show called MacGyver.

[@MultiMrsmurf]

“What’s it gonna be? What do you think it’s *gonna* be? Does that count as data using a contraction????

[@DomWeasel]

He's repeating what he just heard. It's not the same as his own speech. Just because I can mimic a French accent doesn't mean I can speak French.

[@InAMinMaths]

He says it is of course being Data

[@jackuzi8252]

I'm not a hardcore trekkie nor a linguist, but I think there'd be a difference between constructing his own sentences, and mirroring back sounds he just heard from someone else.

[@whompronnie]

@@jackuzi8252 In fact, he probably used a few contractions when he was reading back that woman's son's diary in the son's voice. (The episode where they track down the crystalline entity)

[@MultiMrsmurf]

@@jackuzi8252 but what’s the difference between mimicry, and learning? I don’t see what’s stopping him from “mirroring” that particular speech when needed. Just thought it was interesting :)

[@DemonEyes622]

Just leaves that stuff behind in the 19th century.

[@thetruth7633]

This is MacGyver 19th century style

[@victorsalisbury3554]

Yes data

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

in the title you’re treating data like it’s a plural noun but it’s his name so you should have an S at the end of the word construct

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

It's not unreasonable for someone to pick up that little chunk of iron. I beleive I could. But, how are you going to explain yourself to Whoopi? She hasn't even met you yet.

[@lilarrin1220]

Must be hitting the gym a lot if you can lift ~110lbs with such a wide grip since that's what an anvil ~8-9in tall, 3-4in wide weighs

[@AaronSmith-kr5yf]

Maybe if you are the fucking Mountain with hands the size of grizzly bear paws. No "normal" human is able to do that.

[@nfrl-hs2ly]

I haven't seen this episode in a decade or two, but I believe the explanation was that guidance people have a very loose relationship with linear time.

[@JamesTFaile]

@@nfrl-hs2ly You really should watch it. It's Guinan from this period in time. She didn't time travel.

[@nfrl-hs2ly]

@@JamesTFaile yes, and I didn't mean a loose relationship to time in the meaning of time travel, but rather in terms of perception.