Holodeck Einstein

Star Trek · The Next Generation · s04e19 · The Nth Degree
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[@krishelfferich3487]

Personally...I think LaForge is full of beans. (Lol)

[@kadmii]

love how Crusher tells him he may be the most advanced human that's ever lived, and all Barclay can do is stare into nothing and absent-mindedly nod to himself like "yup, sounds about right"

[@zagnorch1336]

He finally maxed out on the Chad-energy.

[@shawbros]

I think this is the exact same comment I have seen on another video of this scene.

[@kadmii]

@@shawbros wasn't me... I think...?

[@shawbros]

@@kadmii It was the "yup, sounds about right" part. It seems to be a common comment.

[@Phatnaru0002]

More like he was trying real hard not to feel full of himself

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Barclay doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.

[@TheZetaKai]

3:28 Barclay nods. "Yup, sounds about right."

[@SeanKula]

"we've assured the administrator that nothing will go wrong."

[@amitakartok]

And Geordi was waiting for him - though sadly not in the test chamber.

[@zagnorch1336]

Yeah, a highly trained professional in social awkwardness. Actually, I kinda wish there was such a profession, 'cuz I'd be an authority.

[@mabiniss2]

It's for the audience's benefit.

[@jasonluong3862]

In this episode, Geordi is jealous, Crusher is befuddled, and Picard is terrified.

[@DrownedInExile]

And Troi is aroused.

[@forgotaboutbre]

@@DrownedInExile As am I

[@iceho6460]

Troi wants the dumb Barclay back. Writer neglects much of Data's part in this episode. He was just an ensign.

[@ABCDyeahyeahyeah]

And Riker is in awe/admiration. Lmao. While Worf is ready to shoot him down.

[@robertdahammer4850]

@@forgotaboutbre LOL

[@emersonmacintosh7673]

"Computer. Location of Lt. Barclay?" "Lt. Barclay is on Holodeck Three." (Geordie goes to the corner in engineering with no exit and rages out before regaining his composure, leaving engineering and retrieving Mr. Barclay)

[@w41duvernay]

Yeah, just having a casual conversation with one of Earth brilliant minds over Quantive Reality. Yeah, I can see why Geordie fipped out. WTF.

[@emersonmacintosh7673]

@@w41duvernay People are supposed to show up for their shifts. Instead, Barclay is satisfying his addiction. Geordie has to report to Riker, who loves shooting the messenger (or at least yelling at them). The important thing is that part of engineering is a dead end. Why do people always go there when they're upset? I assume it's to "scream into a pillow" because the engineers have the worst jobs on the ship.

[@natalie5947]

Later in the episode Barclay goes to the same part of engineering to get back to the holodeck. I guess there was some construction going on in the normal part of the enterprise and they had to use the Jeffries Tubes to climb to holodeck 3.

[@emersonmacintosh7673]

​@@natalie5947 That would also help explain Geordie's annoyance. Between that and the slow elevator, the engineers have it pretty rough. Then you have Barclay hogging all the Holodeck time and they probably portion it out between departments. "Commander, I don't think there's any regulation..." "Well, there outta be."

[@Rensune]

Instead of, you know, Calling him.

[@jakep1979]

1:38 I like how Einstein just stares Jordie down as if to say: "Meeting?! my gawed I am close to solving one of the greatest mysterious of our universe with Lt Broccoli and you are mad he is missing a meeting?!"

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

Imagine you thought up something that made einstein just stand there staring in disbelief. Now that would be something.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Julian_Pepper]

"You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!" mood.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein! well I was simply bored.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zagnorch1336]

Heh... this clip's title sounds kinda like a 24th-century insult. "Well, well, well, whatta we got here, a regular holodeck Einstein!"

[@zagnorch1336]

Speaking of Einstein: Long before joining Starfleet, Barclay headed up a little thing called the Manhattan Project, which developed and detonated Earth's very first nuclear weapon. Of course, at the time he went by a different name: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

[@rodrigobittar7940]

Wait, you mean to tell me Barclay was about to unify quantum mechanics with the general theory of relativity... and Geordi blow that up to go to a meeting to fix some damn telescopes??

[@manco828]

Geordi was just envious.

[@TheFlyingZulu]

I feel like in an age where they have faster than light speed travel with starships, any kind of math and/or physics from our age would be quite outdated.

[@LabTech41]

@@TheFlyingZulu Yeah, I don't know much about physics, but given that Warp technology exists and is advanced enough to do all manner of things, that feels like something that would require Unification to really understand. Then again, there was a different episode of TNG where Picard and Riker were talking about this famous "unsolved" math theorem that supposedly hadn't been solved by their time... and yet it WAS solved a number of years after the episode aired, which just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a hypothetical future's rate of advancement by what we think might be possible.

[@bhamptonkc7]

the holodeck should have an alarm clock lol

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

it does he simply did not use it.🤣🤣🤣

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

It would just go into the boilerplate everyone says by default when they load a program; safeties off, censors off, enable cow level, alarm clock off...

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

@@Bobo-ox7fj na they don't use the alarm clock even though in TNG they showed the computer had that program in the data base some where because Data for example used it for an experiment on time passage

[@ronaldtipton6035]

I wish they would have allowed a Reg's character to keep just a little bit of the confidence he gained in this episode. They really didn't, and I feel like it would've helped when he was in the voyager episodes.

[@tomjustis7237]

I have to disagree that he didn't keep some of the confidence he gained, Ron. In the Voyager episode when Star Fleet finally manages to contact Voyager, it was Reg who violated orders, broke into the science lab, set up the communications system and even resisted arrest in order to follow what he believed was the right course. IMHO, that takes one HELL of a lot of confidence in yourself to be willing to risk all for what you believe.

[@willkearney5716]

He keeps his chess prodigy skills

[@agalgonzalez]

@@willkearney5716 In the words of Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster: Big deal! He can play chess but no longer design engineering marvels. That's like taking away someone's ability to see, hear, speak, move, touch, imagine, remember and smell, but allowing them to have a dull sense of taste. Rip-off!

[@feathersigil2048]

@@tomjustis7237 He's also more confident in his first VOY appearance as a hologram. He still has that signature Barclay awkwardness but he's much more socially capable.

[@tomjustis7237]

@@feathersigil2048 Without a doubt!

[@YeoYeo32]

Imagine being Geordi and realizing that Barclay has become so smart that the only person capable of talking engineering and physics with him is Einstein

[@geargrinder87]

But shouldn't 24th century engineers be far beyond Einstein? After all, he claimed FTL travel was impossible and Starfleet does it every day

[@lewiswood1437]

@@geargrinder87 on a raw knowledge base yes as they have decades more of research to draw from. In actual problem solving and/or creativity probably not.

[@RB747domme]

@@geargrinder87 the way to look at it, is to think that Newtonian physics was the same in the 17th century as it is in the 20th or 21st. Einsteinian physics is the same in principle in the twentieth century as it is in the 24th in theory. The principles of physics, at least at its core, don't change no matter what yeah or century you are in. The only thing that might change, is our understanding of it.

[@RB747domme]

@@geargrinder87 that is a bit of a misnomer. The enterprise actually never goes faster than light speed. That's why it's called a warp drive, because it warps space around it. It is space that moves not the ship.

[@PoopLoop202]

@Clint Tapper yup, and scientists earlier last year managed to achieve it. Granted it was on a very, very small scale, but a step forward in the right direction! If they can figure out how to do it on actual objects rather than on an atomic level, we could very well see the first starships in the next 50 - 100 years.

[@jaywilson4520]

Barclay's reaction to being told he may be the most advanced human being who's ever lived... perfection.

[@royfokerpoker1802]

It cracks me up every time lmao

[@kellyrayburn4093]

I liked the part where Crusher said, "I couldn't even guess at your IQ right now." And Reg's reply, "Probably somewhere between 1200 to 1450." No hubris or pride. Just a simple statement of fact based on evidence.

[@westrim]

It's meaningless in standard IQ scoring, though, which is distributed with 100 as the mean (that is, half the population has an IQ above 100, and half below 100), and following a bell curve. An IQ can't be above 200 (or below 0), and even getting beyond 150 has limited value for comparison. So as the smartest man ever, I suppose he'd be in the 190s, but the smartest man ever would be able to figure out how to do all that Barclay wants to do without alienating the crew.

[@seikibrian8641]

"Reg's reply, "Probably somewhere between 1200 to 1450." " That's not what he said. He properly said "Probably somewhere between 1200 *and* 1450." It's *"from* this *to* that," or *"between* this *and* that."

[@kellyrayburn4093]

@@seikibrian8641 Sorry, my bad.

[@theduke7539]

@@seikibrian8641 do you need polish for your jackboots mein Grammer Nazi.

[@spartanx169x]

@@westrim Barclay was on a level above adults akin to a nuclear physicist and a 3 year old. He didn't have time to be concerned with such trivial nonsense such as worrying about hurting their feelings. But also I will add that even in real life there is a thin line between genius and insanity. Barclay at the end was dangerously close to stepping over that line.

[@GonnaDeleteNow]

With that advanced intelligence he should tackle very important issues like more recipes for BEANS!!!

[@jasonpye4649]

😐

[@martinhodge921]

PINTO, PINTO, PINTO!

[@TheZetaKai]

All that intelligence, creativity, insight... and he still is late for meetings with his boss because he's in the holodeck. It just goes to show that raw brainpower isn't everything.

[@shawbros]

@Abraham You just accurately described the meetings/conference calls at my company.

[@zagnorch1336]

I dunno... he seemed to have a pretty solid excuse this time...

[@beingsshepherd]

I'd swap your punctuality for his brains any day.

[@3Rayfire]

Barclay's gonna Barclay.

[@Slowpoke3x]

@@beingsshepherd without punctuality, it's going to be extremely difficult to get people to listen to you does intelligence matter if you can't wield it correctly?

[@JnEricsonx]

I love how even super-smart Barclay admits that the idea of there being 26 dimensions is more than he'd like to deal with. Meanwhile... The Watcher: Oh, 26 is the basic cable package to me!

[@em.1633]

They're making a disconnected reference to string theory. Bosonic string theory uses 26 dimensions and superstring uses 10.

[@marks47]

Dimensions not the same as parallel universes.

[@TKnightcrawler]

@@marks47 Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.

[@develynseether4426]

I love how even 400 years in the future, warp specialists are still not as smart as Einstein.

[@bloodred255]

Marvel and DC comic book characters put in random shit that the author doesn't understand but thinks sounds cool.

[@actioncom2748]

A human shows marked growth in intelligence, imagination, inspiration, and creativity....WE MUST DESTROY IT!

[@softy8088]

Well no. They discussed confining him to quarters but decided they can't imprison a man for being too smart. They only started working against him once he took over the Enterprise.

[@Bruced82]

This wasn't normal progress, and the federation banned most human genetic engineering (or you could end up with beings such as Khan).

[@Anton680x]

I have a problem with that mentality that appears to permeate this episode. That may be intentional however it just makes them all very childishly stupid to me.

[@christopherg2347]

This isn't the first time someone gained hyper-intelligence or other superpowers. It always either kills them or turns them into space dictators that have to be stopped. It a Alien probe can do that to your neural activity, it could _trivially_ rewrite your personality. So your argument boils down to: "How _dare_ they worry for a friends wellbeing?"

[@April-lp7pp]

Elon Musk

[@JustPippaNY]

Geordi expected to see Barclay going back to his Three Musketeers/Sex Goddess Troi fantasy program, but found something much more bizarre.

[@Ericwvb2]

Fantastic performance by Dwight Schultz, transforming the insecure socially awkward Lt. Barclay into an ultra confident superhuman. Look at the way he walks out of the holodeck, he's got the Riker swagger. Equally great performance by LeVar Burton playing off of Barclay ... You can tell he's equal parts shocked, happy for Barclay's new gifts and worried that this isn't normal for a person and that there's something very wrong.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

I don't see where Geordi is happy, at least not in this scene.

[@videogames9972]

@@huskyfaninmass1042 yeah, geordi has always hated barcley and never got along with him, interactions have always been not good

[@smokeweebs8700]

Geordi is super jelly cause Barclay got that swagger!

[@Kelnx]

It's Howling Mad Murdock. Of course he can swagger.

[@Elurin]

Nothing against Levar Burton, he's a great actor, but Dwight is really just a master in this episode. But, I think, he has been really fortunate to get some great roles that showcase his talent: Murdock, Barclay's character arc in TNG/Voyager has been excellent, his role as a monk in Babylon 5. Just really, good stuff!

[@onchristieroad]

I'm not sure I could live after what happened to him. He had his mind so opened, it would be like seeing the world, and then put into a box for the rest of your life.

[@cranbers]

didn't make much sense to take that away from the character. In DS9 there were things that happened and they allowed the character to change like with odo becoming a solid and having to live with that etc.

[@aliceslab]

rapid neurogenesis must be terrifying.

[@ApacheTim]

Howling Mad Dog Murdock in the 23rd century! LOL

[@dboymax1]

It's the 24th Century!

[@ApacheTim]

@@dboymax1 I sit corrected! Thank you! LOL

[@dancingmonkey08]

Hanging out with Bishop Brennan from Father Ted :D

[@ApacheTim]

@dboymax1 Twenty-fourth and a half century, according to Duck Dodgers! LOL🤣

[@Cypher121]

You know, I'd hope Einstein's theories wouldn't be "way out of league" for starship engineers that work on warp engines and artificial gravity every day. Would make me feel a lot less safe on board, like if I heard engineers that made a plane I'm boarding don't understand how engines work.

[@tylisirn]

What they're arguing about is unifying relativity with quantum field theory, something we don't really have any idea how might be done even today. The whole 10-vs-26 dimensions bit, those are properties of various proposed Grand Unification Theory candidates (as name checked by Geordi).

[@StYxXx]

I know a lot of aerospace engineers... you probably shouldn't want to board a plane :D

[@WestAirAviation]

Airline pilot here. I have no f'kin idea how the engine works. I just know what to do when it doesn't.

[@StYxXx]

@@WestAirAviation I hope you also know what to do when they work :D

[@DOSRetroGamer]

@@tylisirn But I'd really think, if there is any progress at all in the coming 300 years, it would be solved by then. Especially if we have some sort of warp drive. I'm pretty pessimistic about the 'any progress at all' bit though.

[@VastIceGaming]

Geordi standing there thinking, "If only my visor had fallen off on the shuttlecraft."

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

yeah what if🤣🤣🤣 but it did not so oh well🤣🤣🤣

[@robertweidner2480]

This is how people who’ve taken no STEM classes view those of us who’ve taken all the Calculus and Physics classes.

[@SeanKula]

Yep I knew what he was talking about when he said t' ( t not) because we do that in Boolean truth tables to design computer chips.

[@walternelson2687]

As a Highschool and College drop-out: Haha no.

[@jamesjudge9535]

@@SeanKula I'm afraid I'm going to be that guy, but it would be "t naught" for t_0.

[@mechanomics2649]

Nah, that's how you _think_ they view you. You're not nearly that important.

[@calumcookson740]

Bishop Brennan and Murdoch discussing physics; now I've seen everything.

[@theduke7539]

I do like that even though at the end of the episode he is returned to normal, he still retains much of the enhanced creativity and even some of the enhanced knowledge which he later used at StarFleet HQ to find unique solutions to the Voyager problem, and was more responsible for helping voyager than any non voyager crew member, to the point that upon their return, the voyager crew symbolically adopted him as a member of the crew and invited him to all voyager crew gatherings.

[@wtfa2910]

Is he more intelligent than a computer that he was just talking to

[@FlameG102]

I always saw this episode as almost a parallel to the old TOS episode "Where no man has gone before" On a mildly smaller scale. Barclay doesn't become Godlike and near omnipotent- but he becomes the smartest human being to ever exist, and increasingly becomes too smart for even the computers to handle. But while the old episode was a tragedy about absolute power corrupting absolutely, in Barclay's case, it's more about accepting who you are, as you are. it doesn't corrupt him- although it does change him in ways that make everyone else uncomfortable

[@nickdolan7710]

Barkley may be the most advanced human being ever to live and meanwhile i watch this channel mostly for the "Lots of Beans" jingle at the end.

[@robarans4866]

look up "Magical Trevor"

[@ringo1029384756]

The episode where Geordi gets more than a little butthurt about someone outdoing him, who isn't an android.

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

@@ringo1029384756 technophiles.. what can you do. 🙄🤷

[@SuperEverton1976]

Most advanced human being who's ever lived ? I still pity the crazy fool.

[@3Rayfire]

Name, Mark Taylor. That's Mr. Taylor, which is Mr. T....yeah comment checks out.

[@Dowlphin]

I might have had extra fun with it and replied: "How would you be capable of judging that?" 😎😁 (Same point about Einstein worship.)

[@j.griffin]

If... “I’ve finally become the person I’ve always wanted to be, do we have to ask why?” Great line... unfortunately, it was disputed. So much for seeking out new life...

[@freelanceryuu]

That’s rough, man. And so sad.

[@philipbunney9445]

‘The most advanced human who has ever lived’ Barcley ‘nice’.

[@CenobiteBeldar]

Imagine being burned out of work and your colleagues have the ability to ask a computer aboard a ship where you are. *What shortage*

[@Dowlphin]

Computer: _Mr. Barclay is currently in his quarters' bathroom._ Geordi: _The bathroom?? We have a meeting. What is he doing there?_ Computer: _Mr. Barclay is currently defecating while working on the sensor array reprogramming._

[@jameslikesit]

3:30 I love his reaction here, he's just like "sounds about right"

[@MarginalSC]

Barclay's nod: "Most advanced? I'm no giant space salamander. If only she knew..."

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

Geordi tried hard to mask his jealously with concern here.

[@MasterofSpiders]

Probably thinking: "If only I'd taken my visor off for a minute..."

[@iankiller1]

It's amazing what confidence and sheer will power can do. Nevermind how other humans try keep you down, try to make you.........normal. Look at Geordis' reaction to Barclays' newfound happiness, his newfound intelligence.

[@Zoomer30_]

Im the same way when I've had too much caffeine.

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

The way Barclay is treated is consistently the worst Starfleet has to offer in the TNG era. "Barclay! Stop being an introverted scardy cat! Grow up! Be an officer! Be confident! Show initiative!" *is turned into a 12th level intellect* "Barclay! Stop being a genius! Less confidence! Less initiative! Now that you're a different we find intimidating we want the old you! In fact, we need to "Fix" you!" Like...fuck, people. Either leave him alone, or study him, but don't bitch at him for not being like you, then bust your ass to return him to OG status out of what REALLY feels like jealousy and envy.

[@mornbar1]

Imagine being the only other (confirmed) enlisted crewman on the Enterprise besides Chief O'Brien and having your career & life shredded because some 24th century bigot gets her knickers twisted over your genetic heritage. Barclay screwed up many more times than Simon Tarses did.

[@jime6688]

This is a fave episode(as are most with Barclay), but I thought they missed out on a good scene here. Barclay becomes what he always wanted and then, it’s taken away from at the end of the episode. That would absolutely devastate most people in the same situation. I would like to have seen him trying to cope with losing such a gift.

[@Dowlphin]

If I was Geordi: _"Reg, if you are as smart as you think you are, it should be blatantly obvious to you that your change ion personality was triggered by the probe, and it might very well be quite relevant to figure out the details. ... And I know just the guy to solve this mystery."_

[@slighter]

That's one sophisticatd broccoli.

[@ChristopherNealBUSHIDO49ERS]

This was such a great episode! Dwight Schultz is fantastic as Reginald Barklay!

[@dustinprewitt]

I always loved that reaction LaForge gives, like finding out your recovering alcoholic friend just got spotted at a bar- worried AND pissed off

[@thebradman4662]

3:29 I LOVE how Crusher tells the normally bumbling, non-confident Barclay that he “may very well be the most advanced human being who has ever lived.” 🤣 One of my favorite TNG episodes!

[@gerv55]

Hard to believe Einstein is played by Jim Norton (Bishop Brennan in Father Ted for any Irish folk here), looks totally unrecognisable in this.

[@nb2008nc]

3:33 Yet he still can't get Troi to sleep with her. How smart is he again?

[@arcticbanana66]

I love all the little Easter eggs on the chalkboard.

[@Bethune_Groundstaff]

Can you name one?

[@Spartanhero613]

@@Bethune_Groundstaff Saw it in another comment (would link, but apparently youtube doesn't like it when you post hyperlinks), but the chalkboard spells "Urusei Yatsura" at 40 seconds into the video.

[@RadVidz1312]

Man ! You made my day !

[@dennisbrown5313]

One looked to be Schrodinger equation (simple version - 3d coor. system) and they were starting to write a variable in tensor notation for something @@Bethune_Groundstaff

[@Hedning1390]

Next time they get a human Q or a crew member becomes a super genius they should take the opportunity to progress science rapidly. Have them record everything they know.

[@joshualeniger]

Gordi nodding his head like he thought he visor was and advantage this entire time

[@teleportedbreadfor3days]

I've always been genuinely curious if there's any merit at all behind Barclay's additions/alterations to Einstein's mathematics (if the authors were actually able to grasp Einstein's theories and stuff)

[@themuseboy]

No, from what I remember back in school what Barclay and Einstein said was gibberish. Watch this video here on KZbin about gravity and Einsteins theorys broken down to a more understandable explanation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joPVYp6XjbB1qbc&t Well at least the theory on relativity.

[@NichoTBE]

Doubtful, my understanding was that this scene was portrayed to be 24th century theoretical physics, and Barkley was just simulating the mind of Einstein to help work on his theory with him.

[@CookinginRussia]

No. It was all gibberish. Some buzz words thrown into a pile of nonsense.

[@stapler942]

Well for one thing, grand unification theories weren't on the table for Einstein, that was well after his time. The strong interaction wasn't known about yet, nor quarks, so nobody was working on GUTs. Likewise for the many extra dimensions of string theories, that was all after Einstein. For another, I don't think the cosmological constant would be relevant when talking about GUTs as they only aim to unify the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. The cosmological constant is part of general relativity, which is its own beast for unifying the theories.

[@Brees1986]

Who is the hot engineering chick?

[@kevynhansyn2902]

Just Another Extra.....who is hot.

[@cleanerben9636]

Most advanced human bean to ever live

[@cobaltblue1975]

Ahhhh, the episode where the smarter Barclay got, the more pissy and insufferable Geordi got. So much Geordi salt.

[@Dowlphin]

Geordi has some of that Barclay stuff in him. He is the tech nerd representation.

[@malicant123]

"You could be the most advanced human being who has ever lived!" Everyone on Reddit: "I know..."

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

Imagine if Wesley had been there for this episode!!!!! He would've been green with envy!!!!!

[@TommygunNG]

Barclay's only mistake is in not setting his cell phone alarm for the meeting. And I like how at the end he doesn't let humility interfere with his objective self-examination. Letting that hamper action is a common failure of people like us.

[@SkippertheBart]

People like us?

[@mechanomics2649]

@@SkippertheBart Apparently people with egos under the impression that they're geniuses lmao

[@SkippertheBart]

@@mechanomics2649 Ah. People like us, then.

[@alexrompen805]

This was a great episode... nice to see Mr. Broccoli finally get some spotlight

[@brofenix]

LOL that frown and nod at the end by Reg is hilarious >

[@pattomuso]

Don't let it go to your head, Reg!

[@RMJ1984]

Hologram or not, the fact that Einstein can actually understand and keep up with Reginald with his 1200-1450 IQ is quite impressive.

[@sunsinger970]

The computer..

[@doingtime20]

If you think about it we are not so far away from a conversation with virtual Einstein, the computer acting as him is basically a more advanced GPT, and as a "holodeck" replacement we have VR, which is also pretty decent now. I know GPT sucks at math right now, but it's just a matter of time before they add stuff for GPT to understand math well.

[@russell5078084]

I want a dose of whatever he got.

[@haroldensle6656]

You really can't get the full effect without seeing the previous episode with commander broccoli. He did a great job in all the episodes he was in.

[@Bajirkus]

I always love the subtle, but noticeable, detail that SciFi media (with the exception of some books) basically can't avoid: the characters have a weirdly in depth knowledge of the 20th century. With Picard, at least he's a history buff, and his knowledge seems to span more of human history. But most characters would be like someone today having a really thorough knowledge of figures from the early-mid 17th century. And while there are historians and history buffs who do know a lot about that period, they likely also know plenty about the 20th and 21st centuries (or 19th, if they're rather old). But most Star Trek characters don't drop many references to people from 2050 to 2350. Obviously, the reason they don't is that human history is the product of billions of people all living for at least 20 years, and usually more than 60. In contrast, a TV show is the product of maybe 20-50 writers (over the course of the series) working a few months each, tops (in terms of total hours actively writing and working together). Plus, even if they did, the audience would be far more equipped to identify figures from our own history, rather than the fictional universe's. Still, it's a funny little knowledge gap. Imagine if people when the show came out barely talked about Michael Jackson or Carl Sagan, but lots of them reference Pachelbel or Hooke.

[@potsdam28]

I always liked when they tossed in some token fictional historical characters. like if they’re having a discussion about dictators: Naturally they mention Hitler but they might also bring up someone like Khan Singh

[@Brvnkaerv]

"And loving it."

[@luispablogonzalezv4522]

The most advanced human being. Well, what can you expect from Murdock? B.A. isn't gonna be happy though...

[@ThatBillmanGuy]

You're gonna need a ton of milk to even get him on the Enterprise, though...

[@circamagoo]

That “yes I know” nod at the end. 👌

[@55Quirll]

I'd love to have my brain reprogrammed by that probe 😁😁😁

[@jeffreyrizzo785]

The freaking space Ghost beans song?! The freaking hilarious!!!!!!! I haven't heard that in like 25 years 😂😂😂

[@radscorpion8]

I remember in other Trek videos, youtube commenters actually thought Geordi was just jealous of Barclay here. Its such a profoundly irrational position that it still bothers me to this day

[@WestAirAviation]

Absolutely. If anything I get the opposite impression from Geordi; That he felt bad for the man and how these changes might affect him and his career.

[@leonkernan]

"You could very well be the most advanced human being who's ever lived" Geordie: Don't tell him that, he'll never turn up to a meeting again.

[@Nezuji]

"Uru + Se + I = Ya + Ts + Ur + A" I think I'd heard about this before, but this was the first time I'd actually seen it. We could've guessed that Barclay might like 80s anime, but Einstein? Who knew? ;)

[@WYCD]

0:40 Urusei Yatsura

[@Dowlphin]

Maybe that Einstein chalkboard setting is a boss screen! 😆

[@Spartanhero613]

oh shit, wow

[@enrac]

I wish I was as smart as super-smart Reg.

[@Armorlord04]

Heck, I wish I was as smart as regular Barkley.

[@Parasmunt]

Now we need someone to come along who knows high level physics and math and tell us what was on that blackboard, is it gibberish?

[@jakobbraun5180]

😂 that slow nod at the end

[@andrewscott7728]

Einstein shouldn't be able to help Barclay anymore than Issac Newton should be able to help modern physicists. He'd just spend all his time catching the guy up.

[@potsdam28]

It just took the form of Einstein because he felt better talking to him. Or that’s how I took it.

[@hdjksa52]

"You just spent the night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!!!!!" I mean it...... it always feels good when you can contend with the best.

[@argvminusone]

Grand unification theories. That's an unsolved problem in real-life physics.

[@hdjksa52]

@@argvminusone Thanks for the correction.

[@Unpluggedx89]

3:33 When you sit around thinking about beans

[@jkzero]

wait a moment... in this scene we have Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz) talking with Einstein more than 30 years before Nolan's version!

[@NeoRazgriz]

If I was that smart, the first thing I’d do is try and research and replicate the process that made it happen (determine/make it permanent)

[@Dirtfire]

The Zytherians made it happen and they're way more advanced than humans. Their superadvanced probe altered his brain for a specific purpose

[@wompastompa3692]

All that and he still only has ~65% the mental faculties of human Q.

[@kevindavis5966]

Geordi gotta change his name to Jelly La Forge.

[@theduke7539]

Interestingly, current scientific basis is that there are 10 dimensions, but they are actually grapling with the concept of there may be 12. Dimension being a plane of existence. Length, width, height, time, and space being the 5 we are capable of perceiving.

[@Dowlphin]

As a genius, I find this ovbiously silly, and we should look at the meta of a field of inquiry discussing about numbers of big things that allegedly are but they cannot even fathom in nature. Also, tight brain hemi interaction was a smart way to describe his transformation. That does affect intelligence a lot. Real intelligence. And even though they knew it even back then, even today, or maybe particularly today, so many still haven't understood that *there is no smart without heart.*

[@hamsterminator]

If i had an engineering team with those assets id be there at 0700 sharp...

[@jordanmicahcook]

One of my very favorite episodes!

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

“you could very well be the most advanced human being who ever lived.” I think broc is still on the holodeck.

[@andrewwest4254]

I love the "beans" sign-off.❤

[@tokyochannel2020]

The nice lady officer stopped by his quarters on the way to engineering? lol

[@hotchow8766]

Every helicopter-mother to their child : "You could be the most advanced human being that has ever lived..."

[@Gloriath1]

Well, time to drop a big rock on him, as is tradition.

[@Theomite]

2 things you won't be able to unsee: 1. Einstein's bookcase disappears before Barclay tells the computer to end program. 2. The holodeck doors close too hard and bounce back ajar slightly; they don't close entirely.

[@MarkArandjus]

"You could very well be the most advanced human being who ahs ever lived." Barklay's face: tite.

[@gloversasby1898]

I feel like in the year star trek takes place in they would have the tech to turn everybody into geniuses through implants anyway.

[@argvminusone]

I was thinking that too. The human brain is made for energy efficiency, in order to better survive a famine. That's not really an issue on a starship with food replicators. So, if there's some way to make a brain go faster, I would think they'd want to do so. Then again, we already have stimulants that can do basically that, and using them that way does very bad things to your sanity…

[@ajmittendorf]

Q had (or "will have") an IQ of 2005 (Q Who). Reg's paltry 1450 doesn't cut the Q grade.

[@bjsimon802]

Actually Q as human was the most advanced, one episode he had an IQ of 2000.

[@dboymax1]

Q even with power loss is above human...

[@Dowlphin]

It is not smart at all to believe Q's claims about his own IQ. Even more so since, as I understand, the IQ scale is capped at 200. (Although maybe it is a different system in Trek future.)

[@DrJuice1]

"You could very well be the most advanced human being who's ever lived." Yeah, except he's Barclay.

[@zachman938]

the holodeck can simulate one of the greatest minds in history at the drop of the hat and they don't use it ever again?

[@Dowlphin]

They are talking to the computer all the time to help solve problems. ... The computer that is able to create a simulation of Einstein.

[@Dirtfire]

The Einstein character did come back for a Poker game with Data in one or two episodes