Star Trek: TNG Review - 6x22 Suspicions | Reverse Angle

[@nonnobis2232]

Fun fact: the actor who played Dr Jo'Bril played the bridge officer who didn't have much time for Dr Crusher when she commanded the bridge in the episode Descent.

[@marshallhuffer4713]

His name is James Horan. I also know his as Wheeljack in Transformers: Prime and Jack Ryder in the Batman: Arkham Series.

[@jstnrgrs]

How do you guys only have 4K subscribers? Your TNG reviews are some of the most entertaining shows on KZbin!

[@shawnfisher7434]

The KZbin algorithm doesn't like them because they only release weekly and their videos go over 10 minutes.

[@donovanulrich348]

And they arnt sell outs If they did a raid shadows or sponsorship ad every episode. They algorithm would highlight them more Be the change, be apart of the growing 4k 😂👌

[@TokyoXtreme]

Once Red Letter Media fans - hungry for a higher, focused concentration of TNG content - find this channel, views are going to skyrocket.

[@jakeschutz6342]

Tricia O'Neil played the Klingon named Kurak in this episode. She was Captain Garrett in Yesterday's Enterprise

[@macmcleod1188]

Loved her as Garrett.

[@halfsourlizard9319]

No shit! I thought she looked familiar.

[@andrewblanchard2398]

she was in the DS9 episode DEFIANT as a CARDASSIAN

[@andrewblanchard2398]

she was in the running to play CAPTAIN JANEWAY

[@Shelsight]

Btw, When I first saw this, I was convinced the alien guy Jbril was Ted Danson.

[@vdubthefoxx6808]

Yooooooo!!! Now I can’t unsee it, lol!!!😂😂😂

[@jabbawonger6572]

I love TNG and look forward to these sarcastic takes every Monday from RA. Great work chaps!

[@ShamrockParticle]

^^this! 😍

[@JVDAWG1]

I've binged watched this review series the past few days, very funny and entertaining, much better than watching the actual show, keep up the good work.

[@Sparkey480]

"I just wanted to fly into a star and end it all" fuckin lul

[@hankclay1376]

Thanks!

[@ogto]

come on guys, you're almost at 4K!!! in like, 5 to 6 years MAX you could even live off this channel! (though i wouldn't be surprised if it blew up sooner rather than later)

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

“I’m not gonna put that in” - LIES! 😂

[@marshallhuffer4713]

In the episode, the specifics of the Ferengi Death Ritual is explained that the body is not to be "violated" before burial. But DS9 explained a different version of the death ritual where the body is chopped up into pieces and the remains are vacuum-desiccated, and then sold to the highest bidder. However, it may be that death ritual of vacuum-desiccated remains does not apply to the Ferengi scientist because, as a disgraced failure, there would be no (financial) interest in his remains. Plus, the desire for an unmarked body would also seem to give reason to support the wishes of not having an autopsy performed as an autopsy would cause the body to depreciate in value.

[@donovanulrich348]

But if his inventions turned profit Then violating the body before the familys approval, is considered as theft and harassment of the inheritors. And a violation of the Trade commission

[@michaelwilson-xw4hz]

Yeah, I always wondered why they didn't put the new shield on a probe.

[@AliceBowie]

With all the scanners they have, why would you even need to cut up a body for an autopsy? Also, why did they have to cut up the ferengi, but not the other guy? When he was pretending to be dead, it'd be funny if Beverly said, "well, let's cut him up into tiny bits."

[@1down4upworkshop61]

I was thinking the same thing ...

[@donovanulrich348]

🤦‍♂️ Wouldn't you think surgery could be done without opening people up? But the answer is, sometimes the original way, was the only way

[@Thathumanoverthere1701]

For some stupid reason I thought I could watch this during lunch at work. Mistake. I laughed and snickered liked a jackass through the whole video. I couldn't help it, and just had to apologize to my co-workers through teary eyes as I unapologetically giggled until the end of the video. They don't have Star Trek in Norway, so NO ONE understands what the hell is so funny. OMG the absolute merriment you guys bring me is priceless. And I was having a really shitty morning until I watched this.

[@mr.a8315]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@johnpotts8308]

It makes sense that Beverly wouldn't tell Nurse Ogawa what she was planning. Telling her what she was planning to do would make it hard to maintain her colleague's plausible deniability and risk taking down her career along with her own.

[@wristdisabledwriter2893]

The one that still confuses me how the heck did the alien survive a autopsy

[@donovanulrich348]

See i assumed he had a clone in sick bay after a wile, and that was the reason the tetrions were brought up, and he should have had a larger trace Cuz Beverly took off to that shuttle and the body was still strapped up in sick bay, how the fuck did he get his clothes back on and in the compartment of the shuttle, before Beverly overdid the security with her codes, and her not notice

[@TheTogoRojo]

I forgot this episode as soon as it was over and will only be remembering this hilarious riff of it.

[@halfsourlizard9319]

I love that TNG writers assumed that scientists walk around referring to one another as 'Doctor'. I've *never* heard a researcher approach a group of fellow researchers and address them (directly or indirectly) as 'Doctors'.

[@Shelsight]

Sometimes I think you’re too harsh, albeit damn funny, but this time you were spot on. It was good to have a Beverly episode, but was a faux ‘film-noir’ mess. Anyway, look forward to the next one - although I still wish you’d chosen any other intro & outro music. If it wasn’t so grating, I swear I, and many others, would put multiple episodes on auto play for an hour or two. Your observations are terrific and yr voices strangely calming. The music wld be great in a club, but just kills it sadly. So I’ll carry on watching one by one, forwarding the first and last 12 seconds! Cheers guys.

[@jeremyphillips7827]

"Obviously, if you try something once and it doesn't work, you don't immediately give up. Look at how long we've been doing this KZbin channel." LOL! I have to agree with Robert's grade on this one. For me, it was one of the better TNG episodes.

[@diosoth]

So they can scan some thing in space very accurately when it's millions of miles away, but they have to cut up a body to do an autopsy instead of just scanning it with all their tools from a foot away? The whole Ferengi death thing would be retconned by DS9 anyway.

[@lazm3518]

The shots if Bevwrly walking make this episode

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Wait...if the bad guy was disintegrated, how does Beverly corroborate her story? Even if there was some DNA residue, that could have just been Dr. Crusher stealing the body, and phasering it. With Sub Rosa, one could see how she becomes a renegade, kind of by the time of Picard Season 3. But she never had any professional consequences before.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

This has been hilarious, good job. There's a binging quality here.

[@LordUzaki]

I respect and appreciate that Roberts takes are always so different than expected and that he is always able to describe why he feels that way about a given episode. That being said, I Do Not understand his takes at all, they continueously baffle me. B- to suspicions is insane. An F+ is honestly being generous lol.

[@leeroypatel]

Your review was much more enjoyable than this episode.

[@bazingamycheeks]

I hear that Regulus is pretty great for flying this time of year...or maybe Rigel, that one's pretty good too.

[@charlesvan13]

Any responsible test of this device would have used an unmanned shuttle with instruments to test it.

[@oldstrawhat4193]

Great review. You had me laughing a lot.

[@DeltaAssaultGaming]

Beverly looked so fine in this episode.

[@caramel7149]

9:19 That's when she went on an autopsy spree, and was sent to a penal colony planet to mine for dilithium crystals to pay for her crimes.

[@davidsandy5917]

Flying into a star is old news. We have a spacecraft doing it today.

[@Mehwhatevr]

i remember this episode. i remember it being ugh

[@jojo-gy9pp]

If only I had PIcard's pep talk to play as I was essentally working for over a year during a global pandemic.

[@jeffeffa78]

Best part of Monday! TY. Also how tf did Jobril get from Sick Bay to the shuttle bay? Did something happen to Nurse Ogawa?

[@1down4upworkshop61]

I always wondered how the Klingons became a space faring empire. I can not think that scientists were, and are, highly regarded in such a warrior centric society ...

[@donovanulrich348]

"Sir, these people keep flying away from us" "Capture there flying creature, we must have this power"

[@AliceBowie]

The humans of the Federation are the most arrogant, self-righteous, uncompromising, and entitled species, while simultaneously believing that their the most rational, fair, patient, and generous species. I don't really think they were intentionally written that way; it's a reflection the the personalities of the writers.

[@macmcleod1188]

I rate your episode, funny... two laughs out loud.

[@therealhardrock]

You keep saying Beverly is a bad doctor, but she actually has quite a few accomplishments: 1. She was able to cure the intoxication in The Naked Now 2. She cured the disease that ravaged the Enterprise in Angel One 3. She was able to remove the parasite thing from Admiral Quinn in Conspiracy 4. She removed the Borg implants from Captain Picard in The Best of Both Worlds 5. She kept Willie Potts alive in Brothers 6. She cured Susanna Leijten and Geordi from being turned into those laser light creatures in Identity Crisis 7. She kept the Odan symbiont alive in The Host 8. She helped Dr. Russell replace Worf's spine in Ethics 9. She saved Troi from what Alkar was doing to her in Man of The People 10. She figured out how the Coalescent organism worked in Aquiel 11. In Descent, she uses the metaphasic shielding from this episode to help the Enterprise escape from the Borg ship As you can see, as much as you guys call her a "bad doctor." Dr. Crusher actually has a laundry list of medical accomplishments, you guys just cherry pick her failures, all of which are understandable when dealing with the unknown.

[@saturn580]

Best science episode ever! Flying a manned shuttle into a star instead of sending a probe was a very scientific. Agonizing over the Ferenghi autopsy while completely neglecting to autopsy the mysterious alien who also died mysteriously was great. I loved Beverly's incredible detective technique of simply accusing EVERYBODY of being a murderer. Flying a shuttle into a star AGAIN to prove a hunch, only to be attacked by the mysterious alien hiding in a box who gladly explained his evil master plan before dying like an idiot was absolutely inspired. I nearly died laughing when Troi appeared at the end of the episode after being absent for THE ENTIRE MURDER INVESTIGATION. 🤣

[@WideNerdy]

Something just bugged me. If Guinan had never played tennis, how did she get tennis elbow? I'm sure there are other ways to get it, just curious. Alternately, how did Dr Crusher fail to realize she didn't have tennis elbow after scanning her

[@luiscuellar685]

Universal translation

[@macktheinterloper]

Agreed. One of the worst episodes of TNG. Surprisingly, somehow this is still not the worst Beverly episode.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

It does at least set up a cool subplot in Descent 😁 and what are you talking about!? That one where she bangs a ghost is _epic!_

[@jakeschutz6342]

Man Sub Rosa is gonna be so much fun to watch them review lol.....

[@donovanulrich348]

Honestly, the concept alone is A material But yeah its not on the list of "must see" episodes, its just not so bad id put it on a bad list ether The writing left it in Limbo 😂🤷‍♂️ But i like the tech and concept, hate the implementation. If Joe Brille's plan was shown to the audience, instead of told. I think it would have landed better, and change nothin else Cuz without a clone, i wonder how Joe Brille got out of sick bay, got clothes, and got to the shuttle Before Beverly who walked right to the shuttle 😂😂 and without a command code, joe Brille cant open the shuttle door. So he had to wait for her to open it?

[@___-yy8ud]

These videos are hilarious

[@kilmcm45]

She was like...biiiitch....get the fuck out my way!!! My key still works!!!

[@cyrusmorris9599]

So Basically Beverly gave a KZbin apology

[@jeepdude7359]

This test actually does matter. It was used later to escape other ships that didn’t have this technology.

[@Tim85-y2q]

I can't wait until you guys get to next season's Beverly-centric episode.

[@SnabbKassa]

I have a feeling Jo'Bril will be back...

[@Outerwebs]

Why is a physician overseeing an experiment into spacecraft radiation shielding... with no one from engineering even participating? (Aside from the writers habitually inserting Beverly into situations she shouldn't be involved in)

[@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317]

I will say... I feel bad for the Ferengi scientist

[@skranz2732]

This episode would have made sense if it was LaForge inviting them… why is the ship’s doctor the one doing this?

[@TheRealKaiProton]

I never understand how people in star trek dont allow space autopsy, sure here and now, they have to cut the bodies up, but with a space autopsy, its just a little scanner, and they are scanned over and every episode so how is that one a violation of their beliefs

[@gponce1717]

Even in the future, you sill have to cut open a body and just can't scan the body and do a autopsy on a hologram corpse...so you preserve the original body.

[@Doctoranthetardis]

When are you gonna start doing DS9? I love these and I just need more.

[@mikeluit3027]

Yikes, a wide polarity of grades! B-? Your points are spot on with what they tried to do with Beverly's character here. Unfortunately, it felt like they were doing it in a dumb/clumsy way and so it felt like a Polaski episode. Boy, do I hate that character, so I more so agree with Nick's grade, but I'm taking out 1/2 of the plus mark and making it an F-. Yes, an F-. There shouldn't be any reason to dive straight toward a black hole that is also known as a Polaski. They pulled a Polaski here.

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

Holy….what a difference in opinions

[@Clank_Clank_Im_a_tank]

Better then Beverley sleeps with a ghost?

[@sethmaki1333]

Yes, Baryons are EVERYWHERE. Protons and neutrons are baryons. Electrons and muons are leptons.

[@hebrewyisraeliteyahawadahite]

*Beverly Crusher is just like the Bajoran female Ro Laren, because she's a rogue, therefore crush her.*

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

It feels like the writers just watched The Maltese Falcon or something and thought that Gates McFadden was a good fit for the Bogart role. As unfair of a casting as that is, the writers behind Bogart were at least as much better than the ones for this episode as is the acting gap between he and McFadden. This episode had an unusual number of guest stars and makeup/prosthetics work, something TNG is generally economical about. It's a bit puzzling because one of the guests was Whoopi Goldberg, who obviously competes for screen time and further stresses the budget. This episode seems poorly managed in multiple aspects.

[@shawnfisher7434]

I'm convinced that Robert does not like TNG, and that's fine, he had never seen it before. That's the only way to explain why he likes episodes like this but thinks Tapestry is 'too drawn out'. It's a unique perspective, to be sure, to not like Q or Picard centric episodes but look forward to Beverly or Troi centric episodes... I'm with Nick on this one (again), this episode was very bad. I would give it a D- because I don't think it's in the truly awful tier, it just felt like it was mailed in by the writers. It's clear that they don't know how to write Beverly's character in a way that doesn't make her look incompetent as a doctor. As for this season, I would put this in the D tier with Man of the People, but a letter grade ahead of Aquiel, which was, for me, easily the worst episode of S6.

[@donovanulrich348]

Oh come on I have to agree over all, but the concept of the Episode was A Material, and the writers were trying to fulfill a contractual Beverly episode at the same time And that screwed the concept 😂😂 But i give the episode a C C- And if Beverly wasent in it, I think it could be a B+ or A Have Data invite the Ferengi, and Data try to validate the tech cuz hes a machine And Brille point out we would want a Humanoid pilot, and Data eventually find that suspicious with all the other evidence mounting up Wile evetyone else tries to carry on with usual ship operations And Data has a Sherlock mission

[@ondrejnovotny3273]

It is entertaining to watch when you two disagree like this:) I still remember how I used to agree with Robert on season 1 and 2 ratings and was thinking that Nick's grades are crazy but it turned around season 3 and since then I'm more in agreement with Nick and questioning Robert's ratings, this episode being no different:)

[@cygnustsp]

They literally tried to make Beverly Kirk

[@milestonowheres]

Why do we send anyone into space? Robots work longer and harder than humans but yet we as Humans want hero’s ... the want for real heroes is the power that can send men to the moon

[@samarat1]

Never give up on your KZbin channel

[@jerryk.1889]

Why was she not wearing her jacket in so many scenes? It was very distracting.

[@flowertrue]

Although normally this episode would be the worst episode in a character's story, Beverly has another episode coming up that is SO cringe and SO stupid that it makes this look like Game of Thrones. I swear the writers hated Beverly.

[@AliceBowie]

The actress left the show after the first season, due to sone issue she had with the head writer , but then Patrick Stewart made a lot of noise and they brought her back for season 3, and fired Dr. Pulaski. So, yeah, I think they had a problem with her.

[@callumgibson9167]

Robert... Come on. A "B-" really? Nick, very good. Carry on.

[@Blake4014]

lmao great stuff, glad Im not the only one that thinks many of TNG episodes are just dumb asf and badly thought out. Still nostalgic fun for me tho.

[@Greatermaxim]

I had no suspicions this episode would be graded poor.

[@zerolegacy7821]

Honestly, this episode was the most ridiculous episode to me. None of it makes sense and Beverly should TOTALLY be in jail.

[@Scottrick]

Remember Me was a lot better than this one.

[@halfsourlizard9319]

So, Bev got re-instated ... whyyyyyy? It's totally cool to violate direct orders and say 'f medical ethics' and interfere with other cultures when your unsubstantiated theory happens to be partially correct? Also, no consequences for Ogawa ('Hey, friend whose medical licence was suspended, come check out this sensitive patient data with me!')!!?!?

[@carlcromwell8713]

Finally, you disagree!🎉

[@MrSharper802]

Watched this episode again. It's so poorly written. Two people are dead and nobody seems to care. Since when do shuttles have warp engines that would explode? And lastly they ship was on the way to somewhere. How she get it to stop near a star so she could steal a shuttle. Oh yeah, one more thing. Worf says there is an unshceduled shuttle departure, and Reicher says there are no flight plans entered. No shit that is what unscheduled means.

[@stolaire]

WTF? Amogus episode?

[@nin6246]

I found this a nice, cozy episode. I think a B- is a legitimate rating.

[@countsdooku]

Can we just all admit that Beverly is a Space Karen?

[@TheGava4]

Have these sarcastic guys ever thought an episode is a masterpiece. TNG is loved around the world for decades. These two giggling is getting annoying now….I need medication now…