Star Trek: TNG Review - 1x17 When the Bough Breaks | Reverse Angle

[@emperorpronddaltuma3674]

my first thought, - yeah we have orphans, we can send you an entire ship load, Hell there might be a few parents on board who hate their kids, let me contact star fleet and we'll get this show rolling.

[@reverseangle]

That's a really good point.

[@06bigd2000]

Well if you look at the episode. The Aldeans have forgotten almost everything. Due to their computer, The Custodian, doing virtually everything for them future generations felt no need to continue learning. It eventually reached the point to where they had no idea of how their own technology worked and thereby how it was effecting their environment and them. Also they have been cloaked for so long they had little to no interaction with other species so they have forgotten how to consider the feelings others. Then there was the portion of the episode Radue asked why the parents want their kids back so badly. Because they haven’t had kids in so long they failed to understand the bond that parents might have with their children. Plus it reached the point that Aldeans didn’t even see kids as people. Offering compensation to The Enterprise to have them and said the parents can simply have more children. The Aldeans regarded them basically as objects easily replaced. So they have pretty much stupefied themselves so much that the mere idea of asking about orphans didn’t even occur to them.

[@3dartistguy]

Another god awful episode

[@3dartistguy]

At least no crewmen are seen Wearing miniskirts

[@HomiesBrownies]

These videos are really adding an extra boost of enjoyment to my rewatch. I catch myself getting excited at the end of the episodes to come here and see what these two dudes are lunchin out about this time.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

I don't get why nobody thought to offer Federation orphans, you know, kids who actually need a home. Of course it wouldn't have helped with the messed up ozone layer but they didn't discover that until later.

[@illwill1991]

They didn't just want any kids. They say in the episode that they scanned the ship for weeks, choosing exactly which kids they wanted.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@illwill1991 sure but that’s one ship with 1,000 people so, what, 200-300 kids? There’s gotta be more orphans in the Federation than kids aboard the Enterprise, so surely they’d have a lot of potential candidates.

[@stuartomahony5364]

I didn't realize Jerry Hardin appeared in season one just remember him in time's arrow

[@andrewblanchard2398]

" IT'S AN INVASION FROM THE FUTURE "

[@kuromyou7969]

4:28 OMG I was just thinking about Donnie Darko today because Head Over Heels played on the radio.

[@stuartomahony5364]

Hardin played a scumbag college professor in the golden girls he offered Blanche a guaranteed A in her course if she slept with him and she stood up to him and reported him to the dean which showed strength in character and her reputation was pretty much a facade

[@agentfoxscully3649]

The Syndicate needs the children for cloning with the bees

[@haileyshannon7548]

Isn’t that kid a little too young to be taking calculus...oh wait it’s THE FUTURE!

[@ananousous]

Wonder how many parents take the Bashir route, all because their 6yo child struggles a little in organic chemistry

[@andrewblanchard2398]

​@@ananousous you mean have their kids be genetically engineered to be ANNOYING & OBNOXIOUS

[@rachelolvera9435]

That was his little sister , the child that hugged Picard at the end.

[@cbhlde]

Subspecies reference? You guys are spoiling us! ;)

[@ericdavies1879]

You know when i saw this episode i kept asking what earth and it's colonies don't have orphans

[@SusannahWins]

I'm surprised any of those kids wanted to go back. They probably all have ptsd from all those red alerts. I'm digging the intro and song!

[@reverseangle]

Yeah, it would be hard to find a worse place to raise your kids in the future than on the Enterprise. Glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@LordTalax]

I just noticed that Frakes looks in pain pulling that kid up off the floor, he even has to brace himself a bit. It must be true about his back injury and why he mounts chairs like that.

[@SunburntHands]

These are really great! Keep it up!

[@mattbuchanan2580]

I like this so much it hurts! If you guys stop this holy work I may die. Long live Ragu!

[@tomeboaventura9054]

this one is a D . you guys have been drinking

[@rachelolvera9435]

Because Wesley is on duty that’s why he was in uniform

[@oddish4352]

This one would have been infinitely better without the smarmy win-win ending.

[@kotzpenner]

This episode is kinda creepy, like yeah sure, let the little girl go away completely alone with the old guy, and later when Wesley wants to view her on screen like the other kids, they're like "no don't view that" like seriously wtf lmao.

[@stuartomahony5364]

Desperate housewives you forgot

[@charliemaline223]

“YhESSS”

[@SteveMacSticky]

How DARE you have anything bad to say about Brenda Strong? 😍❤️

[@wahoo236]

Agreed. She is so hot!

[@noneya3635]

So they don't take all of the kids, they just take a few of the whyte kids... ah um I mean a few of the kids.

[@Thrakus]

Did they ever get tech from them? They blast them with the wave wrap field drive which you see them testing in a later ep. Did they get that tech from them are as always leave and never follow up on new tech? They should get tech like the arms dealer ai world which is so broken all you got to do is say yes I pay and it's yours for free.

[@ChrissieBear]

Paedophobia is actually the word for it. xD

[@coolcoolercoolest212]

Pedophobia had me rolling

[@dornravlin]

i liked this one and i thought the kids were cute