Star Trek: TNG Review - 7x6 Phantasms | Reverse Angle

[@allenharper2928]

GAH, you guys, Worf wasn't eating "just a cake", he was eating a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting!

[@oddish4352]

Delicious.

[@JamesMC04]

Shouldn't that be "Gagh" ?

[@allenharper2928]

@@JamesMC04 But... I don't like worms.😥

[@JamesMC04]

@@allenharper2928 Maybe pagh would be more appealing - result: qapla' !

[@KelsonArwhi]

Four seasons of DS9 and for all the "prune juice" jokes, Worf's obsession with mint frosting is never revisited. (sad face)

[@ShamrockParticle]

The episodes can be hit or miss, but your critiques and insights of them never fail to be hilarious. Thank you much!

[@woogha]

"I was hoping they would encounter ghosts" I have great news for you.

[@ShamrockParticle]

🤭😄😅🤣

[@JakeWerkmeister]

[Beverly Crusher has entered the chat]

[@thewewguy8t88]

They are very good at predicting episodes by sarcasm.

[@mikeluit3027]

Ugh, that episode is coming! I think they may want to rethink their grade on this one just so that don't have to invent an F- grade. Lol!

[@woogha]

@@mikeluit3027 we do not insult the sacred historical documents here good sir.

[@pureserenity524]

3:02 Would the cat be fooled by the holodeck creatures?? Have you ever seen a cat attack something on a TV screen, or a red dot made by a laser pointer!!!??

[@Tim85-y2q]

We'll see how much you really want ghosts by the time we get to the end of the season.

[@mikeluit3027]

Lol! Oh, that episode! That episode is something worse than this. Talk about a filler episode.

[@fuzzywzhe]

@@mikeluit3027 Are you talking about the episode Sub-Rosa - Season 7 Episode 14?? That was so terrible, I'd forgotten it existed.

[@Mehwhatevr]

To be fair, cats will chase a laser light, so I don’t think they would care if the holodeck is not real Good job gentlemen, as usual I am enjoying your content more than the show.

[@Tim85-y2q]

The Enterprise D has a pretty giant arboretum. I imagine he could take the cat there for exercise.

[@briandiltsmusic]

Yeah like those cat sitter videos! They literally think the birds flew behind the screen lol

[@Mehwhatevr]

@@briandiltsmusic oh yeah! 😂 that’s an even better example!

[@mikeluit3027]

You know it's a slow episode when your favorite part of the episode is an android telling a Klingon to tell a cat that it's "a good cat". Lol! For whatever reason, that is the most memorable scene in this episode. But then again, who doesn't like Barkley, I mean broccoli. This was a weird episode, but the use of imagery and the somewhat funny scenes were a little more entertaining to me. They could have added a couple more funny scenes. On the whole, as another filler episode (man there are a lot of those in this season) I gave it a D+. I feel your guy's pain with this season. This is where I started to tune out a bit with the series. Add on to one of your comments: Troi used the "etch a sketch" tool feature from the Holodeck software to design the cake. That's why it looks like a 5-year-old drew it. 24th Century software is so 1990's. Good review, I can't blame you for getting a little frustrated/tired of this season.

[@thewewguy8t88]

How do you know that's how troi made the cake lol

[@mikeluit3027]

@@thewewguy8t88 Lol! Comment (artistic) license!

[@fuzzywzhe]

You realize that the actor that played Barkley also played MadDog Murdoch in the A-Team? What a completely different character.

[@RunToEternity]

"Tell him he is a pretty kitty, and tell him that he is a good kitty." Worf: (Glares at data) "I will feed him" This cat had to be put up with being mis-handled for this scene, what a trooper.

[@oddish4352]

I'm sure his handling was carefully supervised.

[@johnpotts8308]

Not to mention being mis-gendered! (He's referred to as male in his early appearances - until "he" gave birth in Genesis)

[@daviddiggens8841]

​@@johnpotts8308well this show was apparently "always progressive" 😬

[@DeMan59]

I so wanted to see Worf clean a litter box. Lol.

[@DeMan59]

@@johnpotts8308 Did you just assume Spot’s gender? How dare you. 😜

[@mrscruffy8045]

Noone yet? Okay, guess i´ll have to then: It´s an android phone.

[@Convoy00X]

But does it come with unlimited Data?

[@HopeAndrea_HFG]

HAHAAAAA great!

[@HopeAndrea_HFG]

@@Convoy00X lol!

[@eddstarr2185]

If every TV series has a life cycle then one bit of evidence is the "plug-n-play" with script ideas. As the years go by, the need for good story ideas is replaced by the need for any storyline that keeps production on schedule. Everyone involved with TNG, including fans, lower their standards because we all know, and like, each other. "Phantasms" got the easy pass because sometimes a TV show is just a TV show.

[@supremegodemperorpalpatine4872]

An Android phone with an unlimited Data plan...

[@mikeluit3027]

Nice pun!

[@Freakazoid12345]

What do you get when iBorg uses a P.A.D. ?

[@jabbawonger6572]

Poor TNG episode, nice Reverse Angle episode. Loving your work as ever.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

The enterprise has a sizeable fucking park to stroll in. Send the cat there.

[@SwayRod836]

Counselor Troi has a dream later on that she's a bear made of chocolate cake and her leg gets caught in a trap. Then she eats her own leg to escape but there's a second trap that gets her other leg.

[@mikeluit3027]

Lol! Why stop there?!? There are many other body parts!

[@SwayRod836]

@@mikeluit3027 Imagine some strange fanfic where Troi just collapses into herself and becomes a black hole devouring all the chocolate in the galaxy.

[@oddish4352]

Would that be a bad dream? Or a good dream? I mean, chocolate and all.

[@mikeluit3027]

@@oddish4352 Like the new Trek series Picard; that depends on what time-point you emerge into.; beginning of the devouring or the end.

[@FreakyLynx]

Wasn’t that a Robot Chicken skit, except it was a gummy bear?

[@thewewguy8t88]

Honestly the crew treats Data going crazy the same way they treat any other crew member going crazy.

[@mikeluit3027]

With a slice of cake!

[@quexalcoatl]

Yaaa! This was one of my favorite episodes, creepy and unsettling. I'm surprised when not everyone likes it but I get it, they missed a lot of easy things they could have done to make it way better. Enjoyed the content, thanks guys!

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I, too, liked the atmosphere in this one, but the script was pretty dumb. Brannon Braga seems to be heavily influenced by stuff like The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.

[@sleep_sounds]

Some of their critiques I would find less fun to watch. Ive always enjoyed this one. It’s just a good light wtf is going on episode… and I love em

[@awesomemccoolname7111]

Starfleet priorities: - Hi, admiral? The flagship of the federation's totally not military star fleet is adrift without warp power or even impulse engines. - Will you be at the ball?

[@newdefsys]

Counselor Troi: Computer, I would like a cake in the shape of Lt. Commander Data Computer: Ba-beep, Your choice is unavailable Counselor Troi: Its a gay cake Computer: You win this time.

[@daviddiggens8841]

😂😂😂

[@briandiltsmusic]

Love this very flawed episode. “Mint frosting” is the highlight for me.

[@saturn580]

I sincerely believed Data was still dreaming because there is no way the entire Enterprise crew would allow the malfunctioning android to wander around the ship hallucinating with an enormous serrated blade in his hand. Joke was on me, I guess! 🤣

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

4:35 This is basically a synopsis of Star Trek: Voyager. I mean it was supposed to be just one character but he ended up being half the show by the end.

[@Raziel236]

I always thought that the end of this episode was disappointing, after the disturbing tone and imagery. "Oh, the high sound they don't like, what could it symbolise?" - "It symbolises they don't like the high sound."

[@oddish4352]

Unfortunately, the crew cannot encounter ghosts in space because everyone now knows that a ghost is just an anaphasic lifeform that wants to get in your pants.

[@robneumann7736]

Merry Christmas gents. Thanks for the videos! Looks like you’ll finally get these done in 2023😂

[@jasonvaughn4886]

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas (considering the weather situation), and a Happy New Year ! This season is by far the worst of TNG (some really good episodes further down the road, but only 3-4), it's as though the writers had given up completely by this point. In all honesty, I much prefer season 1 when they were experimenting with new storylines and plots, rather than watching a "Worf episode", or a "Troi episode" etc. At least we can all laugh at how terrible this season is !😛😛😛😛

[@macmcleod1188]

Phantasm is an awesome Sci fi time travel horror movie. They made 4 in the end. It was unique. Enjoyed your Banter today.

[@reverseangle]

They actually made a fifth movie as well.

[@macmcleod1188]

@@reverseangle wow. I thought I owned all of them. I'll have to look around.

[@Eyetrauma]

I never really considered it before, but isn’t it weird that they’d be tinkering with a new warp core outside of a star base? Like it’s an integral part of the ship and it’s extremely dangerous if it goes south.

[@supremegodemperorpalpatine4872]

Don't come around here no more, Don't come around here no more. Whatever you're looking for, Hey! Don't come around here no more.

[@macmcleod1188]

I've given up (Stop) I've given up (Stop ah, ah, ah, ooh, ooh) I've given up (Stop) On waiting any longer I've given up on this love getting stronger

[@mtgoxsucks435]

Happy holidays everyone! Come to my place for some cellular peptide cake… with mint frosting of course 😋

[@CreationTribe]

haha, "Computer, make a shitty Data cake!" hahaha ... oh sh#t, that had me in stitches :D

[@KelsonArwhi]

This episode remains one of my all-time favorites as it made me laugh my ass off when I watched it. Can't believe yall just passed over commenting on Worf's strange obsession with *MINT FROSTING*

[@aquariandawn4750]

We were just happy he took an episode of from talking about prune juice

[@DownButNotOutYet]

I'll bet knowing how wacky the cast and crew were on set that the cake thing was just a way for everyone to have cake that day paid for in the episode budget.

[@robbiemcdonnell8482]

Merry Christmas guys

[@charlesvan13]

So Geordi keeps getting rejected by white women, but then when a black girl has a crush on him, he turns her down.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Kunta Kinte gets some cool sunglasses and nice threads and now thinks he's above all that.

[@charlesroyal5125]

Where the white women at

[@3dartistguy]

reminds me of the Data episode where he had werid dreams about a crow in the holodeck...

[@jimibaboza]

Ahh the "android with extra data" meme episode.

[@LordTalax]

Laforge should have went after that. He was so indifferent with a hot girl chasing after him was pretty poor writing.

[@oscarkoop2548]

Are you guys going to review Voyager?

[@lonjohnson5161]

I had a friend bake a cake based on the Troi cake. Mint frosting sounds great; it isn't.

[@qdllc]

Someone did this for a Trek convention where Marina Sirtis was appearing. She was supposed to bring items to auction for charity, but she forgot. She wound up auctioning off items from her carry on luggage, and the cake was sold by the slice with starting price based on the part of the anatomy involved.

[@martinseward5045]

Not enough reflection on the fact that it is a silver Spade there is a bird spayed I guess the orb difference escapes Us in America directly

[@carldagroundskeeper]

This was the most unintentionally hilarious episode of trek I've ever seen, like when Data turns around in engineering to discover he's listening to the knife thing xD Also I've always known that it's basically what was happening but it's still funny to hear someone actually say, "..where Beverly is sucking Riker's brains out with a straw."

[@DeMan59]

When I was younger watching Beverly suck on that straw did things . . .

[@JoeKawano]

He stole the whole Enterprise (Brothers), he captures the senior command staff and tries to kill Geordi (Descent, II), and he (now) even stabs Counsellor Troi! When will they ever get it through their heads that Data is a security risk?? 😮😂

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

I made a video where I suggest that Spot died in this episode and he got a kitty before end of the episode.

[@bri55118]

That would explain why spot went from a male cat to a female cat in genesis.

[@TheStarTrekApologist]

@@bri55118 That's the idea. I also started the video with a complation of Spot.

[@timmiller1954]

When are you doing 7x07???

[@shawnfisher7434]

Nick, you want to watch the Orville. They do exactly that in the 3rd season with the robotic Isaac character. There is a character, Charlie Burke, who constantly questions why they have a robot from an enemy race on the Orville. As for this episode: D- Incoherent, S7 slop. Not the worst of the season though. I can't wait for the Sub Rosa review.

[@andrewblanchard2398]

why would they replace a WARP CORE that has done things that no other WARP CORE has done before

[@Kvothe1988]

Aw shit I've caught up!

[@TheInfamousBob314]

Everybody knows they integrated KID PIX with the replicator a half century before this episode takes place.

[@docbones213]

Among the silliest.

[@was100ify]

Alright, so this has been bugging me and maybe you guys can set the record straight. You both keep referring to data as a robot. But technically isn't he an android?

[@whitemouse2460]

Android is a human shaped robot. That is, a set of all androids is a subset of a set of all robots, therefore every android is a robot, however not every robot is an android. More so...(5 more minutes of Data over-explaining things)

[@was100ify]

Gene Wilder, such a treasure.

[@damdarch]

Data is an ANDROID, not a robot.

[@aquariandawn4750]

I'm just relieved he isn't an Apple

[@Thurston86]

The Troi cake looks delicious. The Data cake, not so much. But the best cake in Trek was the one Janeway gave Tuvok in secret. Everyone knows secret cake is the best cake.

[@JamesMC04]

45 minutes of Spot would be perfect.

[@ShrekWallBee]

Data is a Android not a Robot there is a distint diffrence between a Robot and a Android

[@catnewskawai9367]

they stole the cake idea from Tom Petty's video for "Don't Come Around Here No More."

[@allenharper2928]

Awesome song, awesome video. And I often wondered that lol

[@gjc21ful]

Voyager does kind of cover your issue with holograms not just being used for every job, They try to create another version of their holographic doctor but it just recites medical text books. Which makes you think hologram Freud must be really basic so why the hell is Data using him???????????/

[@AliceBowie]

This was one of my favorite episodes of all time. It definitely is the one I think about when I think of TNG. It's almost like an episode of "the Prisoner". It would have been better if they just David Lynched the whole thing, and it just got weirder and they never explained anything. Twin Peaks/TNG cross over

[@fuzzywzhe]

In reality, the holodeck would make just about everything except engineering, transporters, and power generation obsolete. Quarters for the crew could be entirely simulated. In fact, why would you send down any person to a planet? Send a robot that looks like whatever that lifeform is, which does immediate translation tied into the computer. What is the point of an away mission? The holodeck pretty much breaks everything. Why would you directly experience ANYTHING?

[@viscountalpha]

they were grasping at STRAWS by the time they reached this script *rimshot*

[@MrRaindog]

The first two episodes I thought you had something, but the five since is just you guys taking ideas or opinions too far and being unfunny. There's little analysis, mostly mockery. Boring and unfunny. Unsubscribed.

[@jimslancio]

There's a Worf catchphrase that occurs several times throughout the series. At the sinner table, officers are eating unappealing food. Worf "Delicious.":

[@Verbalaesthet]

Eating human cakes reminded me of Satanism.

[@mr.a8315]

❤️

[@LetBBB6345789]

In all fairness, the final comments on the this episode apply equally well to most (tng era) ST episodes. Inconsequential, error ridden, tech-babble episodes with poor character choices and meaningless subplots :-p

[@ondrejnovotny3273]

90% of the criticism is pure nitpicking, this is quite a good episode, one of the best in Season 7... Dislike.

[@Ching1888]

L Y N C H I A N

[@woofy2000]

Typical miners.