CAPTAIN TROI! | TNG Disaster Reaction & Review

[@aestheticalrose4553]

Yall were hilarious this episode. I give your reactions an S tier rating.

[@gabelogan5877]

@@aestheticalrose4553 what is there rating system?

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

@@gabelogan5877 Their*

[@SeraphArmaros]

@@gabelogan5877 It's a standard letter-grade system, F is the worst grade, with earlier letters being better (F, (E), D, C, B, A), and S is a grade above A indicating it goes above and beyond normal expectations.

[@EricTheSaylorman]

"You may now give birth" is such a great deadpan line, followed by Worf stating word for word from the instructions manual.

[@TahoeNevada]

Right up there with Seven of Nine proclaiming, "The fun will now commense"

[@majkus]

"Congratulations, you have dilated ten centimeters. You may now give birth." Probably the best Worf one-liner this side of "Good tea. Nice house."

[@professorbugbear]

I love that the writers found out how absolutely hilarious the character of Worf can be by being so deadpan. TNG would have suffered so much without funny Worf.

[@Anthyrion]

@@TahoeNevada "Did you hear? Keiko's gonna have another baby!" "NOW??!"

[@TheElderBlotch]

What I love about this episode is that it wouldn't work nearly as well if it wasn't several seasons in, and once you've got a handle on all the characters. It makes seeing them knocked out of their comfort zones and persevering against their different obstacles all the more fun. It's a testament to how well-written they all are - including Ro and it's only her second appearance! - and rewarding for the fans who've stuck with the show to this point. A-Tier for me.

[@liegeoflunacy]

Worf gets all the great lines "I am NOT a merry man!" and "You may now give birth" are in my top 10 favorite Worf one-liners

[@tehScribbles]

My one rewrite: They cut to Guinan in her quarters reading, she tilts her head slightly considering the situation, "Nah, they got this."

[@kingleech16]

This got me laughing so hard there were tears in my eyes. Well done. 🤣

[@ErikStronks]

That would have been awesome

[@allendean9807]

Tidbit of trivia, those inner access tubes throughout the ship- are called “Jeffries” tubes. Named after Matt Jeffries, the original designer of the ToS Enterprise.

[@radwolf76]

"That is not the correct port, Sir"... that's what she said. She was making that exact facial expression too.

[@MegabyteUnleashed]

Chief's wedding came out of nowhere, makes sense his daughter also comes out of nowhere. It just helps it feel like he's a proper person having an ongoing life between episodes while we aren't watching, he isn't just sitting still until the cameras come back to him.

[@Raja1938]

Was watching "Ensigns of Command" the other day and noticed Chief was playing the cello. Uh...what?

[@CaptainJZH]

⁠@@Raja1938 I think they ended up explaining that later on, that his father forced him to learn to play or something like that But I don't mind it cause it's something you don't expect from him, so it adds to his character

[@perry1972]

When this episode premiered, I remember the synopsis for the episode in the newspaper was “Disaster: Counselor Troi takes command of the Enterprise”.

[@andreim.5324]

What I always appreciated about the predicament of this episode, was that when the ship hit the filament, everybody was out of their normal work place. Troi in command, O'Brien on the Bridge, Picard in the turbolift, Geordy and Beverly in the cargo bay, Wolf in Ten-Forward, Data and Riker crawling through the Jeffries tubes. Everyone was put in a situation where they would never be normally and made to handle it. The idea is a great one, and everyone executed it in a brilliant fashion.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Amazed Ro didn't take control after Troi was waffling.

[@ThomasReeves-s7u]

@@ShamrockParticle I think she kind of seemed to want to, but maybe she had enough sense to realize One: Likely at least some still see her as an ex-convict first so taking charge might be a bit too ambitious. Two: The Chief seemed to indicate Troi was in charge and she didn't want to fight two people.

[@kathyastrom1315]

As someone who grew up seeing the 1970s disaster flicks produced by Irwin Allen (Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake) in their first release, this is one of my favorite TNG eps that is just a fun romp. It does a great job of hitting all the disaster film tropes-unlikely people pairing up to survive, the pregnant woman goes into early labor, solve one problem only for another to arise, then the happy ending with smiles all around.

[@MichaelJShaffer]

The writers were 100% inspired by the '70s disaster films. I thought they did a great job with this script.

[@VulcanDeathGrip44]

I never thought of it like that, but that’s awesome and makes a lot of sense.

[@andrewgurudata2390]

The pitch meeting for this episode: "It's like The Towering Inferno, but on the Enterprise!" :)

[@Vulcanerd]

Yeah, it won’t rank in the highest of highs, but is a darn good time that I would watch if it came on tv or if I was running my blu-ray or streaming service and this popped up.

[@VonPatzy]

I can’t watch Poseidon Adventure enough times.

[@tkopp10976]

I especially like how at first Picard wants to show the kids Hydroponics and Astrophysics, then at the end "fuck that boring stuff, we're going to the battle bridge"

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Plot twist: Josh and Alex were the two boys in the turbolift.

[@apoc519]

Beverley was able to reach the control panel because she has stronger lungs as set up in the intro

[@ShamrockParticle]

The one part of that scene that made any sense.

[@koalabrownie]

What does that matter when you can't hold your breath in a vacuum? If you're going into a vacuum you're supposed to breathe out first.

[@stillhuntre55]

@@koalabrownie YES.

[@ElleKayGee]

@@koalabrowniethat was discovered much later.

[@MrJerks93]

Song and dance saved the day!

[@MsAlexisPiazza]

"The Laughing Vulcan and his Dog" was a Sybok reference Ronald D. Moore threw in there...

[@EricTheSaylorman]

Should have been "The Laughing Vulcan and the Cat Lady"

[@huskerchuck9212]

"We will need to do a Cesarian section. Get the batlith!" had me dying 🤣🤣🤣 The most memorable moment for me was Keiko nodding yes to Worf with that intense look on her face....LOL

[@miller-joel]

The what?

[@russellharrell2747]

Omg I lost it when the guys said that. It was perfect

[@riccardogemme]

What the hell, Ro? I get going against Troi, disrespecting Picard, ignoring Riker... but disagreeing with THE CHIEF?! You're on thin ice, lady.

[@CDNChaoZ]

Although the O'Brien was ridiculously by the book here. I'd like to think Ro gave him some development that made him less by the book when working on a certain space station.

[@griffinsummoner]

@@CDNChaoZ He's done enough on-the-fly adaptation with the transporters, but I think this is where he started to really open his mind to improvising when tech doesn't work according to specs.

[@wizardling4709]

But Ro could have been right. Yes - it turned out that Troi was right, but only because of sheer dumb luck. If Ro had been wrong, then most of the crew would still have lived. If Troi had been wrong, then everyone would have died.

[@JAF729]

Nice to see a Marina Sirtis centered episode where her powers don't go wonky or she falls in love with a creepy ambassador. In my onionin her best episode to date. One of my favorite episodes.

[@meganega123]

It's really more of an ensemble episode though

[@Sage2000]

Her power indeed fail. She should know a lot more about how people are. But I agree, great episode.

[@MrBark]

If you ever find yourself in a shuttle bay with the atmosphere evacuating into space, you'll want to fully exhale unless you want your lungs exploding.

[@christopherleodaniels7203]

We experienced Keiko being pregnant in a different way as the show aired, since we had to wait months between seasons. No one anticipated series bingeing in the 90’s.

[@noonebesides]

Also, I don't know if the given star dates work with it or not, but I think it is a little interesting to consider if she was already very early in the pregnancy when they got married. It could have been something they weren't telling anyone yet, and would add layers to the on/off wedding dynamic.

[@gregoryfloriolli9031]

The theme of this episode is our cast having to step out of their comfort zone. It starts in a minor way with Picard needing to give the kids a tour and Geordie being reluctant to sing. When the disaster hits, Troi takes command. Riker is forced to solve the engineering problem while Data is disabled. Worf delivers the baby. Picard rescues the kids. Even Beverly and Geordie are primarily faced with physical challenges. The episode does a good job of weaving that central theme throughout the narrative.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Lol Troi only paid attention during her psychology classes in the academy and zoned out and just watched tiktok videos in the back of the class on her Padd during engineering classes. Obrien "it will cause a containment breach" Troi: "Which means?😢" Ro: uh the ship will exploded dummy

[@ShamrockParticle]

Yeah, it's a bit of a downer in that regard. Ditto for "take a deep breath and hold it!" before depressurizing, why Geordi didn't see the overheating long before Beverly touches a panel he had also glanced at, etc.

[@bentels5340]

I love the way you think TikTok will still be around then.

[@russellharrell2747]

@@bentels5340tik tok will outlive the human race.

[@russellharrell2747]

⁠@@ShamrockParticleyeah, there’s a great book from the 90s called The Nitpickers Guide to TNG that brought up all of that and more. But it’s a good story so we can all forgive it…maybe.

[@SanjayMerchant]

Honestly, if I could magic wand change one thing in this episode it'd be to change that bit of dialogue. I get that we need someone to say "the ship will explode" so that viewers who aren't the type of obsessive nerds that owned the TNG Technical Manual (ie, viewers who aren't like me and most of my immediate family) will understand the stakes, but it makes Troi look *really* stupid.

[@Schwingedesraben]

What I like about the episode is that they brought almost all of the characters in situations, where their strengths and abilities were not very helpful, and they all had to overcome not only the challenges of their surroundings, but also their own inner challenges: Worf, the great warrior, delivering a baby. Picard, who was awkward with children and used to have crew to command for along time suddenly being on his own with three children. Troi, who never had any commanding experience suddenly being in charge - and so on. It was awesome, because every single one of them had to go through some character growth to manage the new situations.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

The entire birth scene was there for Worf to deliver that one line. “You may now give birth”

[@magafett596]

It’s true the pregnant lady giving birth at the worst time has been done a hundred times. But you’ve never seen a Klingon delivering the baby. 😂

[@matthewcollins4773]

The Cosmic String is a nice callback; Troi knows that one, obviously, so she tries to use it as a reference. 😄It's nice that rather than make her completely clueless they did show her trying to make logical deductions based on prior experience. These questions of rank Vs role, and how the chain of command isn't as simple as it might appear, are fun; inevitable, I suppose, in an organization as complex and multi-faceted as Starfleet.

[@MrJerks93]

Right. The Duty officer is in charge until relieved. With her passing, it falls to rank and whomever can assume command. She's not really a line officer, but Star Trek has a long history of having non-Command division (e.g., Mr. Spock, Scotty, and Data) assume command.

[@vicolin6126]

Having had several bosses in IT that knew NOTHING about IT, I really feel Chief O'Brian this episode. Props to Marina Sirtis for playing the "Ok, I'm in charge, but least qualified person to deal with this situation"-role very well and believable.

[@mandgkawulka6044]

This was always one of my favourite episodes, I’m so glad you liked this one!

[@peterkoester7358]

38:35 The entire reason Keiko was the pregnant woman trapped in 10-Forward was precisely so it would be a character the audience would connect with! If it were some random crew member no one had ever seen before, the audience would not have cared whether she lived or died or what would happen to the baby. It had to be Keiko - unless you wanted Guinan trying to explain why she was suddenly pregnant!

[@bobm2027]

Target Audience has done it again. By giving me a different perspective on the episode I’ve come to appreciate it more than I have up until now.

[@seraphinaaizen6278]

I really like these kinda "starship down" episodes. Where the characters are on the ship, but have to go through sections of it we've never seen, or find ways to deal with the ship not being controllable. Or even just seeing the ship in a state we're not used to, or characters having to take on roles they're not used to. O'Brien is such a pro, though. He's the most experienced, most capable person on the bridge who absolutely SHOULD be in command. But he's just totally by the book, acknowledges who's in charge, gives his recommendations and gets on with his job without an ego. Despite being worried about his wife and no doubt thinking about that every second of the episode. Good guy O'Brien.

[@janus1958]

To be fair with the decompression of the cargo bay, even them having them hold on so tightly is overblown. Unless they were near the airlock, where there was a significant pressure differential on one side compared to the other, they would mostly just experience a rapid decrease in pressure (Not that this in of itself couldn't cause issues).

[@TopGunZero]

The great part of Geordi and Beverly's segment was that their situation called for both of their expertises, both medical and engineering.

[@jerome1lm]

Doctor Crusher always wears her uniform and is a commander with 3 pips.

[@russellharrell2747]

Commander seems to be the standard rank for chief medical officer on a starship. Bones was a commander too.

[@brettg274]

Technically, she’s the only one who can pull rank on the captain in the proper scenario.

[@chrischreative2245]

I liked in an alternate timeline where Beverley commanded the medical ship with the round section. I forgot the name.

[@noquarterracing3637]

​@@chrischreative2245the series finale

[@evangreen3080]

I think Troi could as well, under the same principle. She did in PIC s3, though for another reason.

[@johnezell1628]

Worf's line about Keiko dilating 10 cm and now can give birth is one of my all time favorites.

[@brettg274]

“I don’t want to see Picard dressed up in a safari costume.” Well… I’ve got some bad news for you, Josh …

[@evangreen3080]

I sometimes think Alex and Josh don’t get how limited budgets/abilities were at the time. Geordi on the outside of the ship would have eaten a lot of budget on this cost-saving bottle episode. Data’s detached head was surprise enough and they wouldn’t have been able to do much else with it without making it the big effects shot of an expensive episode. This one was more low key, “domestic,” and fun-not meant to dazzle and wow.

[@evangreen3080]

Also, as a kid watching Crusher and Geordi gasp for breath was anxiety inducing. We didn’t ever see people exposed to space. And that plasma fire (that what?!) burning green was new as well.

[@captbunnykiller1.0]

It's amazing to see how comfortable the cast is in their roles now, compared to the very early seasons.

[@bradbarter8314]

If you'll recall going all the way back to Encounter at Farpoint the series premiere, Councillor Troi was wearing the blue and black uniform skant (skirt) and it had her rank of two and a half pips of Lieutenant Commander. It was the only time up until now that she wore a standard uniform before first wearing that deep grey denim outfit for the rest of season one and then the unitard outfits since season two with the occasional blue dress on the bridge. Just like her, Doctor Crusher has a command rank as well and her's is full Commander. If you'll recall in Suddenly Human Jono (Jeremiah Rossa) asked Worf after Crusher ordered Jono to be confined until further notice why he took orders from a female. Worf replied, "she is my superior officer." Jono then says in his culture a woman can't command a man. Which Worf added, "you are human and as human, women can be anything a man can." Also is the school song The Laughing Vulcan and his dog based on Sybok? 😂

[@klofat]

And the next time we see her pips is in S6E10 at 17:45, correct me if I´m wrong.

[@busimagen]

Everything above ensign is basically a command rank (meaning you have responsibilities over other officers), but I don't think most of the Star Trek writers understood that.

[@a6am3mn0n]

Ensign Ro's reaction was like an admiral in the navy finding out the secretary of education became the president.

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

That’s a great idea for a tv series! 🤣

[@kyrridas1573]

"whats with these comical barrels in the back?" one of my eyebrows lifts slightly.

[@chrisbullard5901]

Season 5: the Season of Barrels

[@Jim-Mc]

The character work in the episode is fantastic. We already know them by now but each member gets to be themselves fully in this one.

[@mikefrankham9071]

Troi's a Lt Commander officer, but a non-line officer, which means an officer who isn't usually eligible for command. Normally only line officers would take command, even if a non-line officer outranks them, but in a situation where there aren't any line officers left, it then falls to non-line officers like her. We have to assume that for some reason Ro isn't line, although normally her position would be. Might have been disqualified as a result of the court martial.

[@mjbull5156]

Yes, despite that Ro wears command division red uniform.

[@williampilling2168]

@mikefrankham9071 The Lieutenant who was killed by the exploding consol full of rocks had been in command, despite Troi being on the bridge. You are probably right about Ro being out possibly because of the court martial.

[@Lincynity1]

​​​@@williampilling2168generally, the person in command passes it on to another officer when they leave. "You have the bridge Number One" etc. That didn't happen when the officer on duty got blown up. It's probably normal for the highest ranking officer to assume command. Avoiding spoilers, Troi seems to go out of her way to not be seen as an officer, but she is one, she's mentioned attending the academy (although what she did there is questionable) and she significantly outranks Ro. She could have given command to Ro, and probably would have if she didn't have such a snotty and callous attitude. Remember Logan in Arsenal of Freedom trying to take command from Geordi because he outranked him and Geordi standing his ground because he was given command by the Captain.

[@NessOnett8]

Before going into this episode I was like "If they don't give it at least an 'A' I have no idea what these two like."

[@Brian-qn7fn]

22:05 "Not the best track record of episodes". Proceeds to name all banger episodes.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

At first, I thought the 'disaster' would be Geordi singing the Major General's song..... :) I love how everyone is in the wrong places around the ship, with the wrong job to do. Worf is in charge of triage. Captain Troi. Bev is doing engineering. Picard is running the creche. Fun episode......

[@jonathandonley3299]

I honestly never looked at it that way until just now. In the past I only thought of it was Troi being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also, kind of hilarious that she was the ONLY primary cast member who wasn't qualified to be in command.

[@stillhuntre55]

I really liked that the episode didn't exaggerate the scene of the air being blown out too drastically. They did a little, but empty space doesn't have sucking power. It's just empty. There's a initial swoosh as the air evacuates, then you have no air. It's even a push that the barrels would be blown out, considering how heavy they were. People being pulled horizontally would just be Hollywood craziness. I do agree, though that it was a vignette that needed more tension.

[@JMUDoc]

*trailer voice "This week, DISASTER on the Enterprise: Picard has to spend time with children! Oh - and the ship crashes into something."

[@Malmstrom87]

Definitely a memorable episode. I love episodes like this, a collection of small adventures if you will.

[@MrJerks93]

The vacuum scene comformed with the scientific advisor at the time, which was to hold your breathe. Nowadays, the common thought is to breathe out to avoid pressure damage. Depressurizing the bay should be very quick considering the size of the bay door. After which they be able to freely walk around as there's be no more pressure differential to blow them out.

[@MsAlexisPiazza]

My favorite TNG character is introduced! The weird radish kid rules!

[@matthewcollins4773]

If only there was a multi-episode story arc in which only radishes could prevent the collapse of the Federation, and the Executive Officer in Charge of Radishes proved his true worth. Alas, 'twas not to be.

[@vohbovohborian28]

No, the vacuum of space would not suck you dry or even make you explode in some way, nor would it be particularly cold, especially in this scenario.

[@Aqweius]

Not to mention Geordi’s comment was wrong. The air would not be “sucked” from the cargo bay into space, it would be blown (an area of higher pressure into one with no pressure). It’s called explosive decompression for a reason. But it’s a common TV/Movie mistake troupe as well. On a similar vein, Dr. Crusher’s medical recommendation to Geordi is grossly inaccurate as well. They would want to exhale all the air from their lungs prior to all the air evacuating as the pressure difference would cause the air in your lungs to rapidly expand causing severe internal damage and would be extremely hazardous if not fatal. A delightful entertaining episode none the less.

[@masere]

Remember "The Naked Now".... Riker - "Someone blew out the emergency hatch. They were all sucked out into space." Data - "Correction sir, that's blown out."

[@tideoftime]

Worf delivering O'Brien's baby is one of the scenes I have been waiting these years for to get to with you guys -- Worf at his Worf-iest... Lol

[@yumyumpodcast]

It's so funny how much Worf doesn't care about all this baby at the start of the episode.

[@racookster]

43:03 - Darin Wagner said "desiccated" (dried out), not "dissected," but he's wrong about it. A properly trained person, which any Starfleet officer should be, can survive up to two minutes in a vacuum. You want to exhale rather than fighting the air rushing from your lungs, and you're going to have broken capillaries and other injuries, but you won't die instantaneously.

[@johnezell1628]

Episode correctly depicts that humans have about ten seconds to perform a conscious action when exposed to a vacuum.

[@racookster]

@@johnezell1628 - 2001: A Space Odyssey got it right too when Dave outsmarted HAL by blowing the door off his space pod.

[@ricconway8719]

Great video you guys. Have no fear. More "Captain Troi" ahead!

[@headrockbeats]

Beverly and Geordi would not have been dessicated instantly. Also, of course they start to move before the doors close: They were only waiting for all the air to escape and the wind to die down, so they could let go of the ladder. When that happened, Geordi hit the button to put up the force field; the doors _could stay fully open at that point,_ and it would make no difference. If anything, the implausible part about that scene is that Geordi - an engineering genius - couldn't program the console to repressurize the deck, instead of having to press a button on another console.

[@ErikStronks]

Remember that all the computers were down, and they had to manually override everything they did. (Or use Data's cranial unit as a CPU)

[@headrockbeats]

@@ErikStronks Those are two very different scenarios. What Data and Riker needed to accomplish was to collate information and control multiple different systems, for which you would definitely need the Main Computer. Geordi, by contrast, was faced with two functioning consoles, each demonstrably capable of carrying out at least one specific task at the press of a button. As the most qualified engineer aboard (and possibly in the fleet), there would be hundreds of different ways he could get one console's buttons to activate the other console's buttons, instead of risking it all on being able to make it across the room in a vacuum. Even a _mechanical_ solution would be preferable. In fact, the very idea that Geordi could get locked in a room on the Enterprise (at least, without someone equally skilled intentionally keeping him in there) is ridiculous; but drama is drama, so I won't push it _that_ far.

[@williamjackson6705]

A great ensemble episode. Something they will perfect with Deep Space Nine. You guys are going to love that show. The episode's director, Gabrielle Beaumont, died a few years ago. She had quite a resume. Picard only thinks he doesn't like children but would have he would have made a great father.

[@williampilling2168]

Ensign Ro was so good, they tried to giver her her own spin-off series!

[@gluuuuue]

One of my favorite eps. 1) I love a good survival story, and we see not just everyone rising to the occasion but the ethos of “working together” under the assumption everyone else is doing the same, but 2) most all of the main cast are challenged with problems outside their comfort zones or domains of expertise. (And you kinda see the slight correlation between rank and responsibility, readiness, and lack of griping.)

[@karlgrimm3027]

Today Picard faces his greatest challenge, children.

[@brandonbennett2815]

Romulans- hard Borg - extreme hard Children - impossible

[@randallwong7196]

The episode answers an unasked question with 'yes'. The question is "Are there children's songs about laughing Vulcans?"

[@ThatJunkman]

I like how they had Wolf in the intro not giving a crap about a woman having a baby as Riker is all excited. Good sit up

[@RedmoonIndustries]

The part that I always liked about this episode is that Picard starts with a couple of non-critical rooms in the ship. Then after everything they went through, not only does he want to continue the tour of the ship, but he is going to start with the battle bridge. The only thing that SHOULD have been in the episode is Troi "sensing" people in the drive section of the ship. Heck, she's in the unique position to actually lie!! " I can sense several people in the drive section, we have to believe that they are going to notice those monitors." Edit: The baby could not have been male... Keiko would have been like, "I'm going to name him Worf" Good ol' Worf O'Brien

[@Raja1938]

My thinking is that the general cacophony of thoughts among the crew would've made it all but impossible for Troi to isolate where people are onboard.

[@chrisbullard5901]

This should’ve been the episode that someone took Picard aside and done the “Kindergarten Cop” bit of: “I don’t know what kind of Starfleet Captain you are, but you’re a very, very good father.”

[@mb2000]

I find it very hard to believe that someone who’s served in Starfleet for years aboard a starship as a senior officer, even the counsellor, wouldn’t know what a warp core breach means. I do like how Ro doesn’t know Troi even has a rank as she always wears the aerobics instructor leotards. 5:41 “Where?” If only Geordi had a thing on his face that could show him temperature differences….

[@mjbull5156]

Have you not been paying attention sitting on bridge for the past four years?

[@mk-tp8yy]

@mb2000 I feel the opposite. It's quite unrealistic that all the officers seem to understand everything everytime. Maybe except of Picard who sometimes seems not to get the technobabble, thx to Stewart making a questionmark facial expression. In real life unless studied engineering noone in office will understand the engineering talk, even when all of you work at an engineering company.

[@mb2000]

@ I get that, and I certainly wouldn’t expect Troi to know all the ins and outs of how the ship works. But I’d think in general you’d get to be familiar with at least the basics, especially stuff that could lead to the ship exploding. Troi was there when the Ansata planted a bomb on the warp core in “The High Ground” and when the warp core of the Yamato destabilised in “Contagion” so I’d think anything going wrong with the warp core would be fairly obvious how serious it was without being told.

[@richardkonkle5079]

Given the circumstances, Keiko O'Brien should name her daughter "WORFINA".

[@ProtusMose]

C-section via Bat'leth is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

[@airmaildolphin7013]

Data is a head above the rest. Oh, and this was the episode that gave Deanna her nickname: Deanna "What's a Warp Core breach?" Troi.

[@shanepye7078]

With the air pressure being normal, opening the hanger bay door wouldn’t just blow them into space. It would feel like a large gust of wind.. but the cargo bay would have to be under A LOT of pressure to lift an adult off their feet. And since the gravity is still on in the room, they wouldn’t have to hold on to anything.

[@scrapperlock9437]

This is a fun episode. I liked how Picard figured out how to deal with the children. And I was thrilled to see Ensign Ro back.

[@miller-joel]

Picard's greatest challenge so far.

[@danbower4704]

16:20 Josh staring at his phone during the most EPIC Troy scene of the entire series 😞

[@karlsmith2570]

5:16 "Is That Riker?, Who's That?" That silhouette was Worf

[@JamesDSchw]

This was the first episode of Trek I ever saw, and I think the only first-run of TNG. What makes it one of my favorites is that it's one of the few times that Trek focuses on the actual dangers of space travel itself.

[@victorjohnson7512]

In the Navy (or space fleet) the officers are divided into command officers and staff officers. A staff officer (doctor, counselor, specialist) would never be in command of a ship. Even if they were higher ranking.

[@r.j.sullivan2104]

In defense of Keiko’s pregnancy, we hadn’t seen her since the previous season so by the time the pregnancy was revealed in series “real time” it wasn’t that hard to accept.

[@StephenCole1916]

While not explicitly spelled out (as far as I remember), Dr Crusher as the Chief Medical Officer on board the Enterprise held the rank of Commander, she periodically acts as OOD (Officer of the Deck) on the night shift but remains outside the normal command hierarchy at other times.

[@russellharrell2747]

She still holds the power to send the captain to bed when he needs a nap.

[@andrewshannon4950]

Really, this is the first episode I think of as having a "Good Troi plot", and she splits it with everyone else.

[@ross8884]

I'm JUST old enough to remember quite a few "disaster" movies in the late 70s, very similar premise, always interesting with all the different groups and their challenges.

[@hemmojito]

I just wanna say I love the Beverly and Geordy stuff 'cause both of them are actually pretty nice and polite characters and while in the other groups there's this thread of leadership going through you can't point out any of the two to be "the leader" per se. They are probably not paired together often and I like that they did portrait this ... not awkwardness but politeness within the confines of a larger group you know what I'm saying?... Like in a large friend group there's always one where - outside of this group - you wouldn't really hang with that guy youknow. They didn't overplay it. They didn't underplay it, which I figure is not that easy to hit that chemistry. Two wonderful actors. Plus as a kid Geordy was my favorite and ... well everybody was in love with Beverly come on!...

[@tpekkala]

That's a cool uniform, Data. I hope someone will use it in a boozy Star Trek trivia challenge some 30 years after the episode airs.

[@TheGh0st81]

Mike from Red letter media 😂

[@paul_andrews]

10:55 my pet peeve in anything like this - opening the doors means everything gets _blown_ into space.

[@SanjayMerchant]

Didn't Data correct Riker on that exact thing in season 1? I think in The Naked Now?

[@paul_andrews]

@@SanjayMerchant indeed! RIKER: Somebody blew the hatch. They were all sucked out into space. DATA: Correction, sir, that's blown out. RIKER: Thank you, Data. DATA: A common mistake, sir.

[@Lexi_Zone]

Love this episode! Everyone gets a chance to shine--and those who have had lots of times to shine in the past even get to shine in new and interesting ways. I love how far Picard has come with dealing with children, and the reminder that Troi is a lieutenant commander. When was the last time we saw Troi in uniform, the pilot? That's probably the only time her pins were visible.

[@jathygamer8746]

"You'll be my Executive Officer in charge of radishes." "That's bull----! I'm defecting to the Romulans!" 📺 🖖🏻 💓

[@xxlCortez]

It's basically a "getting out of the comfort zone" episode.

[@peterkoester7358]

4:50 Think back to the pilot episode of TNG. Troi wore a variation of a Starfleet uniform with rank insignia on the collar. For some reason when the show went into production Gene Roddenberry decided she should wear something other than a uniform in character as Troi, but it was never really explained why.

[@Markus117d]

I think it's kinda obvious, imagine your a crew person or very junior officer, how would you feel confiding your innermost thoughts & feelings and talking about your problems to a senior officer in uniform? Rather than a more comfortable off duty informal setting?

[@peterkoester7358]

@@Markus117d not sure how true that would be considering every other ship's counselor wears a uniform and - of course - the Jellico Rule. 🤐

[@Markus117d]

@peterkoester7358 Ahh, but how many other councillors do we see during the same time frame, becides Troi could have asked & granted permission to be more informally dressed.. Not saying it's the reason, but it certainly makes some sense. Well at least to me it does, lol..

[@monkeytime9851]

This is one of the my favourite episodes that I always thin of when I think of TNG.

[@Zikar]

A really fun episode, a good character piece that looks at how everyone behaves far outside of their comfort zones. Worf delivering a baby will never not be funny.

[@sneeson]

If we go by Klingon rules, Marissa and Riker must now fight to the death for the First Officer position. They should do that.

[@JAYWALKER1000]

Still laughing at the idea of Worf using a bat'leth for a C section. Worf: She fought valiantly but the child's head was too big and would not emerge - even when I roared at her.

[@jww84]

This was one of my favorite episodes of Season 5. So glad you guys enjoyed it as well. A Tier for me.

[@silikon2]

I know we're not supposed to ponder "artificial gravity" too much in Trek (and indeed in most sci-fi opera)... but exactly where is that lift falling to? The "bottom" of the ship? 😂

[@jonathandonley3299]

I guess it depends on where the turbolift was at the time. If it was in the primary hull, the bottom would be deck 16. If is was in the engineering section, then that would have been a much longer fall. Still, a 10 to 12 story fall would have been extremely hazardous, if not deadly.

[@Musicita]

I always wonder that when I see this episode and my only explanation is that for some reason the gravity plating affects the entire shaft and isn’t built into the turbo lift itself.

[@silikon2]

@@Musicita I would have thought there's no gravity in the tubes at all because they would be pointlessly fighting it. It would have been a good spot for a dab of technobabble, like "the lift's accelerator thinger is jammed at full power". That even strikes me as pretty reasonable technobabble.

[@evannuh-koo-la4054]

This is my favorite episode of TNG! Also, this was the last Star Trek episode to air before Gene Roddenberry died.

[@kalamari8243]

32 episodes of TNG and one Movie until the Pilot Episode of Deep Space 9!

[@pauld6967]

More fun episodes ahead guys. Nice that you are employing LCARS as framing for yourselves. Once again, we see that the Chief is on point when it comes to military protocol.

[@jesseatkins9826]

Worf doing a C-section had me LMFAO😂😂😂😂😂

[@VonPatzy]

I can see this not hitting S for first view (Josh) - but I have to say that I chronically rewatch STNG as background comfort and this is one of my favorite episodes to stumble on as I live my life in the middle distance. Just fun from stern to aft.

[@JimFeig]

Once the air is gone there is nothing pushing them out anymore. And no your guts do no suddenly come out.

[@wisconsinfirenerd]

At last Picard faces his ultimate challenge, three children in an elevator.

[@harryqueen8397]

This is mainly for the trekkers who know, but allow me to assure you gentlemen that the "pregnant lady trope" pays off much (much) later... That was fun thanks.