The Crew Discover a Tyken's Rift

Star Trek The Next Generation Season 04 Episode 17 Night Terrors

[@user-ly3mw4yq7g]

2 extras with speaking parts at the helm in 1 scene. Wish we got more of that, makes the show more believable as a "lived in" universe.

[@tren380]

Nah, we don’t need to hear from the nobodies.

[@thejumper7282]

nope fucker@@tren380

[@kevinm.8682]

The notion that everyone on the bridge is fully qualified at every position is unrealistic. Other than the Captain, First Officer, and maybe Ops Officer, Most of the other officers are only qualified at a few stations.

[@user-ly3mw4yq7g]

@kevinm.8682 sure, but my point is that I think having crew at the helm who don't speak for an entire episode despite have orders given to them makes the show less realistic. How would that fly in real life not responding to a senior officer.

[@develynseether4426]

​@kevinm.8682 fully? Of course not but in the navy majority of bridge crews that have officer status, even junior like Ensign, are trained to handle basic functions of all stations in an emergency, certainly enough to get by.

[@johnwalton8359]

"I was detained" is the excuse I often use whenever I'm late for something.

[@yanceyschwartz]

I use "I was deranged".

[@curtyeomans8446]

That look on Troi’s face when he said that … she sensed no one should go in the bathroom for awhile😂

[@g.k.1669]

The vent fans lost power. @@curtyeomans8446

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

We all know he was with an Orion who-er.

[@Littletime839]

​@@curtyeomans8446I have it on good authority that Klingon poop has spikes and the smell is toxic to humans

[@bradbarter8314]

The young Asian Ensign Lind who takes over was the young Asian boy in the TOS episode "And the Children Shall Lead". A little cross Trek trivia incase people didn't already know this.

[@malcolmr3]

He’s also lieutenant Kim on Voyager.

[@bradbarter8314]

@@malcolmr3 No that's Garrett Wang

[@bradbarter8314]

@@malcolmr3 No that's Garrett Wang

[@awedelen1]

Huh, that's neat.

[@user-ym1pf4lz3h]

Wasn't that guy on revenge of the nerds as well?

[@ckok7792]

For me this was the scariest Star Trek episode. As someone who has a sleep disorder and struggled with severe nightmares often even causing seizures, this episode hit hard yet is one of my favorite ones.

[@tyson31415]

I liked it when TNG played at being scary. "Remember Me", and "Cause and Effect" come to mind.

[@bcarr1122]

@ckok7792 - Best wishes, my friend.

[@no2party]

@@tyson31415 don't forget "Schisms"

[@dece870717]

This one and "Genesis" I thought were for sure made or aired around Halloween time.

[@Webberjo]

This is the one where they learn an alien's also stuck in the rift with them and trying to communicate to them in their sleep. This disrupts their REM sleep, making them wake up still feeling tired and unable to think straight.

[@christopherg2347]

2:49 You next-dimension neighbour is asking if you can "spare some hydrogen".

[@Charmolution]

When your weirdo neighbours have run out of the most abundant element in the universe.

[@christopherg2347]

@@Charmolution That is a good point. Well, it is the most abundant element in _our_ universe. Could have been very rare for them. Or it could be they exhausted their supplies in a previous attempt to escape purely on their end. And they kinda have issues getting a refill right now.

[@Eyerleth]

It's abundant on a universal level, but getting it in large concentrations isn't always easy.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

​@@Charmolutionyou would be surprised how empty most of space actually is.

[@josephmassaro]

Worf: I was detained. La Forge: Yeah, I ate one of Commander Riker's homemade burritos, too. I was detained for over an hour.

[@oneangrymelon]

Stop it! Haha I heard this in Geordi's voice!

[@nitehawk86]

Gonna use this the next time I'm late for a meeting.

[@develynseether4426]

You'd think Geordi would learn after the owan egg incident 😂

[@ademorris82]

@@develynseether4426Geordi was never one to shy away from a challenge…

[@DaedalusArc]

Sounds like you’ve discovered a way to generate a violent energy release without using conventional means.

[@DrownedInExile]

The Tyken's Rift should have been presented as a more serious physical threat. Large loads like warp drive were the first to be drained, but eventually life support and even Commander Data were affected.

[@blastermasterguy]

Also it shouldn't have taken Commander Data 10 whole days to analyze the situation and determine what the hell is going on.

[@develynseether4426]

​@@blastermasterguy Data isn't infallible, he doesn't have the entire knowledge of every single scrap of information. The Enterprise-D memory core was 630,000 kiloquads (For reference it's been determined 1,000 exabyte (1 million terabytes) is a quad and 1,000 quads is a kiloquad which in turn is 1 trillion terabytes so 630,000 kiloquads is about 630,000 trillion Terabytes Data's storage capacity was about 100 Petabytes or 100,000 Terabytes. The show only made it seem like he knew everything and could do everything. (Side note, I'd like to think Data got 'upgraded' over time. An isolinear chip from 2360's could hold the equivalent of 2.15 trillion Terabytes so even that chip had a bigger memory than a human sized computer built 30 years earlier, sounds familiar?)

[@AstralShine]

Brian Tochi from Police Academy and Revenge of the Nerds! I had no idea he ever appeared in Trek.

[@knerduno5942]

What is a nerd?

[@Aquaman1054]

This might give you a smile, but when I saw Brian Tochi in those movies, my reaction was "Hey, it's Tee Gar from Space Academy!". Tochi also appeared as one of the children in the Star Trek TOS in the episode "And the Children Shall Lead".

[@rustysanchez8416]

He did appear in Star Trek, in the TNG episode “Night Terrors”. He also appeared in the movies Police Academy and Revenge of the Nerds

[@paul16451]

Tochi also appeared as a cadet in a cheesy kids space serial show from the 70s called "Space Academy." Which incidentally also starred James Doohan for a while.

[@derrickdaniels1931]

He was also the voice of leonardo in the 1st tmnt movie

[@DavidYorkshire]

"It was named after Tyken, a starship captain called Ken from Thailand."

[@tjzambonischwartz]

This is entirely too silly.

[@joeschmoe709]

He was a great warrior, and a great friend

[@MrRight-hn5pq]

Thai Ken sounds a bit like Stan from Pakistan

[@sarcasticguy4311]

"It was named after a starship captain named Bobby Boobsmack but absolutely nobody was going to name the anomaly that."

[@paulsarnik8506]

Of course not. Ken's last name was Tyson🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎🖖🏻

[@nickpond9337]

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER STAR TREK , PLEASE , THANK YOU ;

[@angelsandautobots]

In Star Trek Online your science officers can use Tyken's Rift as an offensive ability. Watching this episode again puts into perspective just how bad you're screwing over enemy vessels. 🤣

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

And there it only weakens your shield I think

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

Space anomaly spam is easily the most fun and psychopathic way to play STO.

[@angelsandautobots]

@@GrandSupremeDaddyo 100% agree. 👍

[@VoodooV1]

Ensign just has PTSD from fighting the Chigs, it's understandable.

[@manfredullrich483]

Lt. Damphousse, she only became after TMG.....there she was an ensign only.😂

[@FabiusPolis]

Worf: "I was detained". Nobody reacts or bothers to brief him about whats been said before. Imagine you would jump into that discussion at this point. Another captains cargo..huge explosion to release energy...what? And they mention the photon torpedos, Worf gets still ignored 😀

[@brianjonker510]

Worf is never ignored. He gets denied.

[@leifhietala8074]

Ensign Lin is played by Brian Tochi, "Takashi" from Revenge of the Nerds (and lots and lots of other stuff, Tochi is a prolific voice actor).

[@stubro25javee34]

"Geordie whats going on down there"? "I don't know sir I'm currently in the sonic shower"

[@christopherg2347]

Pretty sure the captain knows the chief engineer on duty at all times.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

Violent energy release - did they have a Taco Bell in 10 Foward ?

[@Innomen]

Space is the perfect setting for horror, the creepy moments of STNG were my favorites by far short of anything Borg. Space and the sea are terrifying in their vast emptiness and potential. This is why I love the Blame! setting so much, it's like space, only filled.

[@DinoJake]

This episode was like a Lovecraftian short story. Alien beings try to communicate with the protagonists, not realizing their attempts at communication was driving them all mad.

[@wtfa2910]

I can only imagine what it's going to be like in the future when we send ships out out into the Universe and they encounter things like this I would suggest we keep All Star Trek episodes in their in there backup computers

[@bootsnthejeep]

If the overall theme of TNG is to be believed, if they don't have a Data, they're gonna be shit outta luck! That was the only part of Dr. Bruce Maddox's proposal to dismantle Data for further study that I liked, the desire to have a Data on every Star Fleet ship.

[@Bonez0r]

​​@@bootsnthejeep If they duplicated Riker in that transporter accident, shouldn't they also be able to create as many Data's as they want with the transporter?

[@bootsnthejeep]

@@Bonez0r Ooooohhh! That's good! Dammit, that's an interesting proposition....

[@caelestigladii]

@@bootsnthejeepDoes shutting down data have detrimental effects? I have “reverse-engineered” electronics components when I was still working in the semicon industry, and during that time it was non-destructive. Especially if you only have one copy 😁.

[@bluemoon1197]

One of my favorite episodes Can you do a clip of the morgue scene?

[@TheCormTube]

That scared the crap out of me when I first saw it

[@cupidstunt22]

Spooky

[@everwake2689]

@@TheCormTube That scene lives in my head.

[@lilarrin1220]

I was enough of a horror fan to immediately know what trope they were going to use as soon as I saw the scene the first time, and I was very pleased with how they executed it, including the doctor's reaction

[@jeffpadilla9891]

Perfectly good warp core on that other ship.

[@julianaylor4351]

Like waiting for a London bus. 😁

[@oneyeblind72]

this was one of the best and creepiest episodes of the series

[@EtchAGetch]

Always thought it odd that they can create anything in a matter replicator, but couldn't create whatever matter needed to mix with Hydrogen to cause the explosion that the other ship had on hand. And the other ship, clearly advanced enough, couldn't figure out how to acquire Hydrogen. Great episode, regardless.

[@danieljohn7788]

Detention areas. This is one of my favs. Space is dangerous.

[@nsnopper]

Even Spock’s Brain offered some laughs. “Brain and brain! What is Brain?!”

[@Alex-xh9kv]

1. What detained Worf? 2. Why wasn't Data's power systems also drained?

[@rizwansyed4704]

His skull is a duratanium alloy, presumably could have given him some energy dampening or shielding, as he seemed to be more resilient to phaser fire although not completely immune to vast energy overloads. Also think of it as a drain on shields first which were being fed by the warp core which couldn't sustain enough energy to continue to go to warp because all of it was being consumed. Once all energy barriers are expended, then invevitably life support would've failed and then data would've likely been affected.

[@alienrefugee51]

Worf was starting to lose control of his mind. He probably was in his room trying to meditate, or possibly even considering suicide at this early moment. Troy can already sense something is wrong with him. That's why she approaches him later.

[@christopherg2347]

1. There was increasing animosity among the crew, due to REM sleep deprivation. Security likely had to intervene.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Worf was having his honour tested on the toilet, and he did that wife died scream when he saw there wasn’t enough power for the bidet systems.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

0:33 - Heh! It's cadet Tomoko Nougat from Police Academy 3.

[@stonkr]

The accompanying soundtrack tells me everything's fine and dandy. No danger, no Romulan prison holo-simulation, no alien abduction whilst asleep, no alternate universe, no disappearing crew in a collapsing bubble, no sub-space anomaly. Eeeeeverything's normal...

[@Archie2c]

10 days wow.

[@markc7440]

Apart from the opening episode of Voyager when Tom Paris is picked up from New Zealand and there might have been Kiwis around in the scene, can anyone think of any Aussie or Kiwi characters in any of ST? I've drawn a blank.

[@ransom182]

Surely thrusters would still work right? Or decompress the main shuttle bay? Or is there a strong gravitational component to this as well?

[@WHNorthcote]

As they can not move due to energy being used at that point the only way would be to expel oxygen like the space shuttle and slowly pulse the release until clear of the rift.

[@mytube650]

@@WHNorthcotethey could also stick their butts out the window and pass gas.

[@Brasswatchman]

Presumably, yes. Data did call it a "rupture in space," which suggests some kind of warp or deformation in space-time.

[@leopold7562]

Picard: I’ve never seen one before, no one has, but I believe it’s a Tyken’s Rift Crusher: A Tyken’s Rift? Picard: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Whereas a black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe, a Tyken’s Rift just locks it in place. That’s why we’re experiencing these strange phenomena on board Kryten: Hey! They’re stealing our script!

[@paul56419]

Worf had too much gagh for lunch

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Meanwhile, in Star Trek online: "Ima rip Space and reality a new one every 45 seconds"

[@marcd1981]

Well this was a fine how do you do, where is the situation resolved scene?

[@daytona1073]

What happened to the other ship? I hope they didn't just leave it there... ☹️

[@dsdgdsfegfeg]

Is that Ruffee ? From Picard?

[@Mark73]

No. The actress's name is Lanei Chapman.

[@32ModB]

Only a lot more cow's milk in your coffee could achieve a detonation of enough magnitude to blast out of there😊

[@Jiimys187]

The head of security was detained 🤣🤷‍♂️

[@ayanithtalreign]

He was busy dealing with the large numbers of crew freakouts going on.

[@Omnipotent-Q]

Worf was “detained” after a spicy Klingon Gagh curry the night before

[@robertfousch2703]

Perhaps that could be used to produce the violent energy release that they need?

[@excrono]

@@robertfousch2703No, there would be insufficient beans to generate that reaction.

[@LFTRnow]

One moon...circles.

[@guspaz]

Eyes in the dark...

[@sarcasticguy4311]

Yeah, yeah, hydrogen. But do they have it or do they need it?!

[@user-xd2rj1tx4y]

I love my sleepzzz

[@maxamilliansteele6454]

_IT'S PRONOUNCED DAHTA,DATA_

[@nssimpson]

I like that he says data correctly... The English way.

[@maxamilliansteele6454]

@@nssimpson Yes, but, the only reason he does that is because the English guy said it first.

[@nssimpson]

@@maxamilliansteele6454 it just sounds right though... 🤣

[@maxamilliansteele6454]

@@nssimpson Indeed, I just wish he differentiated

[@Cayladran]

This horor-centric episode was such a gem!

[@berczigabor]

Isn't the guy at the helm the same who was in Police Academy?

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Why was Worf late?

[@mytube650]

Alexander

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Worf was detained… read: I was in the bathroom. 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

[@pacershark452]

Ensign " I Wanna Do The Nasty!" Lin?! You've come a long way from In living color!

[@jaymike3302]

A Tyken's Rift ??!!

[@davedismantled]

The Sargasso Sea of the cosmos?

[@casanova419]

Nerds on the Helm.

[@billc8886]

Compressed air or solar sails😅😅😅

[@Innomen]

Though I must say, this notion of being trapped is stupid. They have torpedoes. Ride the wave.

[@killmimes]

I would watch your content, but you have no CLOSED CAPTIONS. and it's free to add.

[@LBCB94025]

*_Soo what Was happening??_* 🧐🤔🤨🤷🏼 #wth

[@KevinNguyen-qf4dn]

Evry one their own kie

[@KevinNguyen-qf4dn]

😅

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

Well, the crew of the ship that originally encountered the rift WERE NOT HUMAN. Geee, I wonder why things might not affect them the same???

[@OmegaII]

It isn't just humans on the Enterprise.

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

@@OmegaII Yes, but she was making her statement about the humans.

[@eliangonzales]

Why the hell was Brian Tochi never back as a character on this show???

[@allenwilliams4371]

This isn't STD. Keep comments serious.

[@nicotoscani1707]

thats what happens when u give a job to a 3rd wurlder

[@MyName-nx5il]

Launch a shuttle in an elliptical orbit to produce gravitational effect in a direction away from the anonomly maybe...

[@paulrussell9632]

How would they do that? Any attempt to use propulsion resulted in the energy being drained. Wouldn't the same thing happen to a shuttle?

[@qontoh2s872]

If every power source is being drained instantly how is Data still active? He should be a hat rack, not solving deep space mystery.

[@christopherg2347]

The same way life support and gravity are still online.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Only effects large power sources.

[@davecrupel2817]

Only effects non-main-plot devices.

[@KevinNguyen-qf4dn]

Tran lox all only yours local understanding

[@zadkiel242]

Why is the doctor and Troi present in the room?.What are they going to do?

[@OmegaII]

Senior staff meetings, so the senior staff meets.

[@leftcoaster67]

@@OmegaIIAnd some crew members were being effected. Pretty good reason to have the doctor present.

[@zadkiel242]

@@OmegaII Did you ever serve in the military?

[@fredWaxBeans11111]

Wesley Crusher should just pull himself out of time, and save the day. 🙄

[@BryonLape]

"A violent energy release"...tell a woman to be reasonable.

[@corylang]

A vile, repulsive attempt at humor, especially during March, a month dedicated to women. Disgusting. Tell another one.

[@nvkulk]

Eddie Van Halen would be a better rift

[@Xingmey]

Deactivate inertis dampeners, activate thrusters, let go of some rcs gases and be done with it in about 2 to 3 days, done

[@danielbyrne5402]

They replaced the driver with an asian which back in the day would have been considered stereotypical, good thing 'woke' wasnt about back then

[@vac59]

Where was all the DEI complaints in the future 😅

[@xx8782]

pffff.. women drivers :P x x

[@ctbt1832]

I don’t like what commander Rinker did

[@MasterofSpiders]

What? Relieving the Ensign? That looks like his job to me.

[@christopherg2347]

Sending clearly incapacitated crew to the infirmary should be in his job description.

[@sarcasticguy4311]

@@wild_world5401 Sounds like this "Rinker" is an imposter! And what about Wharf, Datur and Peecard?

[@calanon534]

@@sarcasticguy4311 Don't forget "Georgy" and "Beverage" and "Deena."

[@sarcasticguy4311]

@@calanon534 HAHA! Don't forget O'Blarney and his wife Catcall.

[@mbhog8490]

worst episode ever. lol. boring, slow. one moon circles...over and over. horrible.

[@Dr.W.Krueger]

There are far worse TNG episodes.

[@Blutteufel]

You've clearly never seen 'Masks'...

[@OmegaII]

Not that bad. good concept, kinda ok execution.

[@drtonyfoochie4895]

Looks like even Starfleet does the whole DEI thing and puts in diversity hires. A red shirt ensign that can't fly the ship. How the hell did she make it thought SF?

[@rogerballs2014]

rescue in two weeks.........? OK, they just wait. end of episode

[@dogsrlcatsdl4524]

Yep, just like I thought... I watched like thirty seconds of this an hour ago, now my algorithm is pumping these out like shit through a goose...damn you Y.T.