An astrophysicist watches 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' for the first time

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3 жыл бұрын

I call myself a Sci-Fi fan and yet I've never watched any Star Trek?! I figured why not film my reaction so we can chat about which parts are more science, and which are more fiction. Go to brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.
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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford. I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
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@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

To all the Trekkies who I mortally offended: “I’ve never watched any of the original Star Trek series...” to me, meant “all the series made before the Chris Pine films”. Showing my Star Trek noob once again, I had no idea The Original Series was the actual name. Oh, and yes Patrick Stewart plays Prof. X not Magneto, but I always get that mixed up in my head where I’m convinced Ian McKellen always plays the good guy ❤️

@uusijani 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer to think that was just epic trolling, cracked me up.

@CallowayVisuals 3 жыл бұрын

I actually thought your faux pas were hilarious and I couldn’t wait to start reading comments.

@joansparky4439 3 жыл бұрын

TNG (what you seem to be watching) gets good after season 3, once the actors really got into their roles. The big thing about TNG for me is the series take on ethical/moral situations.

@john_michael_white 3 жыл бұрын

"The Battle" is a good early season one episode with some decent (a relative word there) physics to comment on.

@TheExpatpom 3 жыл бұрын

You wait until you watch the one where they have to remove a dangerous build up of baryons from the Enterprise. No, I’m not making that up. Just pretend they say rabyons or something when you get it. Enjoyable but sometimes you wish the writers occasionally rang actual scientists and asked if the cool word they heard recently makes sense in context or if they should just make up something else.

@gearcheck101 3 жыл бұрын

You called Patrick Stewart "Magneto" and just incensed two fandoms simultaneously.

@benjaminbierley2074 2 жыл бұрын

Use the force Harry -Gandalf

@Knight121198 2 жыл бұрын

How efficient of her.

@Excanda 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, but also he plays Professor X and Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf) is Magneto.

@rays2729 2 жыл бұрын

She may not know her movie references but she knows her physics! That's the important part. Not butthurt fanboys complaining.

@hadesobsidian5231 2 жыл бұрын

@@rays2729 That's not a movie reference though, that's the name the actors portrayed. Knowledge is knowledge, when you're wrong you're wrong. "That's the important part" Lol what, that she Jimmy Fallon fake laughs while pointing out inconsistencies in a show with Klingons and Phasers from the 80's? That's like Jim Wendler pointing out flaws in a high school PE class.

@dwentlandt1022 3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute, did Dr Becky just call Picard Magneto? No no no, he was professor Xavier. Not magneto.

@jedfuller5322 3 жыл бұрын

Right!

@joeyshofner639 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell that she doesn't get out much.

@hermanschryer2910 3 жыл бұрын

Good catch!

@u32123 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, got to call that one out lol

@rjonboy7608 3 жыл бұрын

Does it really matter? He'll always be Gurney Hallek to me!

@carlosrvra 2 жыл бұрын

“Does watching JUST the Chris Pines films redeem me with Trek fans?” No. In fact, quite the opposite. 😄

@Gunnar001 2 жыл бұрын

The JJ films have nothing to do with Star Trek. If you’re *only* a fan of those dumb schlock movies, you’re not a fan of Star Trek. It’s really that simple.

@eisamiller88 2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Snow You say that like it's a bad thing. And honestly, it wasn't hard to keep track of canon until they threw it out the window with the reboot and Discovery.

@reezlaw 2 жыл бұрын

I thought that immediately but I wasn't sure if I felt like commenting... thank you for taking care of it

@palomarjack4395 2 жыл бұрын

Ya know, these kinds of arguments over a fictional story line are, well, really kind of sad.

@Shan_Dalamani 2 жыл бұрын

@@palomarjack4395 Never been to a Star Trek convention with actual panel discussions that are about things other than the actors? How about a Star Trek discussion forum? People have been arguing about some of this stuff for over 50 years.

@robynharris7179 2 жыл бұрын

“The Naked Now” was actually a extremely inferior remake of a first season episode of the original Star Trek series called “The Naked Time”. In that episode, the Enterprise was in close orbit around a planet that was undergoing gravitational instability and crust collapse due to the core cooling. The acting, writing, and directing of that 1966 episode were all much less embarrassing than this episode.

@Ryvaken 5 ай бұрын

The entire first season was still trying to shake off its dated roots. There were a few points, like Farpoint, where TNG shone brilliantly, but any time I go back to Trek I start with season 2.

@skepticmafia8048 3 жыл бұрын

“I’ll just watch another one....” yeah that’s how we all started...

@yvonneyvonne2513 3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!!! So true!! If only all Jeopardy questions were based on Trek I could retire comfortably in 6-9 months. (OK, I'm a little weak when it comes to the Enterprise prequel.)

@AraceaeFanatics 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing but truth!

@dupersuper1938 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, except the episode after Naked Now is.......

@TheGoauldApophis 3 жыл бұрын

@@dupersuper1938 Code of Honor 😨

3 жыл бұрын

Many a sci fi fans have gone down that rabbit hole with many a series, good sci fi is like a black hole, once you get caught in its gravity well you just keep getting drawn further and further in until you hit the Event Horizon/Finale.

@dipperdandy 3 жыл бұрын

"Stop touching each other at work!" Clearly you are not familiar with Riker.

@antonycharnock2993 3 жыл бұрын

Well it was the late 80's...

@eclipse74569 3 жыл бұрын

I just did a spit take reading this 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@roccov3614 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he was a bit of a touchy, feely character.

@Jaymanslc 3 жыл бұрын

Just wait until she sees the classic Riker chair mount move

@m0j0rising 3 жыл бұрын

Or Kirk from STTOS. 😂

@sinephase 3 жыл бұрын

The models and space shots were amazing for the time, and the detail still holds up over modern CGI because it's using real light and models :)

@RideAcrossTheRiver 5 ай бұрын

The writing holds up too because now we're stuck with CGA.

@TonyGingrich 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see an astrophysicist's reactions and response to the series finale, All Good Things (2-part episode). It is premised on a temporal "anomaly", which seems to age backwards through time. As a child, it really sparked my imagination in the direction of theoretical physics.

@user-gn1cl9ix7p Жыл бұрын

Yes, I loved that finale. Picard had to make such a large conceptual leap to understand what was happening to him.

@InverseTachyonPulse Жыл бұрын

I love the finale, as you can guess from my user name 😁💁🏻‍♂️

@TonyGingrich Жыл бұрын

@@InverseTachyonPulse Haha! Likewise, I love your username. Full impulse, ahead into the anomaly!

@One.Zero.One101 Ай бұрын

I'm sad she didn't watch more episodes. 😭

@GrrrTurtle 22 күн бұрын

don't watch that. an editorial fail makes the solution to the problem not make sense. the filmmakers admit this. It's like telling her to start watching Trek with the episode Code of Honor.

@sendintheclowns7305 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky: Bored so watches Star Trek Me: Bored so watches Dr. Becky watching Star Trek

@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

When does the cycle end?!?!

@richard--s 3 жыл бұрын

Me: So bored, reading the funny comments of a video where Dr. Becky watches a Star Trek movie. Oh, I think, it's not boring any more ;-) But by the way, those movies were "a bit" simple even in the times back then. But well, it was the only entertainment with some space stuff. Although we knew, it had much more to do with fiction than science. But even the fiction was very simple in the first Star Trek series: Each planet had no more than one city, mostly nothing more like a tiny town, often underground, everyone speaks english on every planet and when an unnamed crew member walked off to the left (on the planet's surface), he would not come back. Very simple ;-)

@wellingtonsmith4998 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky This is never ending. (gasp) We're caught in - a TIME LOOP (dun Dun dunn DUUUUUNNNN) 😧

@sendintheclowns7305 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky I think with my dog. He's watching me watching you watch Stars Trek. Wait, where's the cat...

@DartmanX 3 жыл бұрын

Me, bored, reading the comment about watching Dr Becky watch Star Trek.

@iainmac6272 3 жыл бұрын

Dr Becky reacting to TNG: YAY! Season 1 Episode 2: oh. oh no.

@joeyadair9228 3 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly the worst episode to start with. If I wanted to ensure people thought star trek was stupid, I'd make them watch this episode 1st.

@iainmac6272 3 жыл бұрын

@@joeyadair9228 At least it wasn't Code of Honor... Should probably just watch the handful of gems in the first 2 seasons and then start on season 3

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@JustPlayTheGame76 3 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a face palm gif here because this is where you would use it. "Lets whats great about Star Trek TNG." Starts in the worst part. The rest of the video was too obvious. *shrug*

@ianwestc 3 жыл бұрын

@@iainmac6272 "At least it wasn't Code of Honor..." Yeah, that was the next episode after The Naked Now. So if we really did "just one more..." Oi, this show really did not get a good start.

@kingt7126 3 жыл бұрын

She’s funny! She called him “Magneto”. I’m ☠️ 🤣😂🤣😊☺️😂

@emdee7744 2 жыл бұрын

OMG, he's Prof X, not Magneto! Yikes!!

@shravanveerkohli 2 жыл бұрын

Same... I mean she called herself a sci-fi geek... Apparently shar trek isn't the only series she needs to watch...

@musicshack7296 2 жыл бұрын

I was just about to say that 🤣🤣 I still enjoy her vids though.

@reykenpachi0398 2 жыл бұрын

That killed me 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

@reykenpachi0398 2 жыл бұрын

But still cute

@AlanCanon2222 2 жыл бұрын

"Geordi" was named for a disabled Star Trek fan who made the convention circuit and was much beloved by the original cast. The character's "visor" represents the hope that future scientific discoveries will help human beings overcome physical disabilities.

@tayzonday 3 жыл бұрын

TNG Season 1 was terrible. It gets much better around Season 3.

@InADarkTavern 3 жыл бұрын

Chocolate rain

@SilverAura 3 жыл бұрын

So glad my opinion on this actually fits in with what appears to be the vast majority. That doesn't happen often.

@chrisleebowers 3 жыл бұрын

Season one is damn near unwatchable and the writers confess as much. She should watch "Q Who" from season 2 just to introduce the Borg and then skip right ahead to season 3

@Wizardofgosz 3 жыл бұрын

Is it really you?

@Sailorsega 3 жыл бұрын

TNG Season one is great! It just looks bad when it is compared to what came later.

@shittersful 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing can travel faster than light... CERN - Hold my beer

@siwilson1437 3 жыл бұрын

This was episode 3 as the first episode was a double! You've inspired me to binge watch the whole lot again, so thank you.

@aliceophidia 3 жыл бұрын

6:18 *Professor X, you mean, surely? ;) Magneto was Sir Ian McKellen!

@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

Whoops!

@jayneshanopol 3 жыл бұрын

Whoopsie!

@leephcom 3 жыл бұрын

Crumbs... how embarrassing! :D

@DeadInsideDave 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdSVl86H182qdmQ.html&ab_channel=Asad

@EHirsh 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky i had the hope that was a sarcasm :(

@PlugInKali 3 жыл бұрын

Star Trek is at its best when it deals with human/ethical problems. It's basically social commentary with a futuristic backdrop. They've tackled racism, homophobia, dictatorships, imperialism, ... There's also the ethical implications of AI and what makes humans human, for example. But above all it's a show about hope for humanity's future and that we'll eventually be able to overcome our weaknesses and create a prosperous and peaceful society ruled by diplomacy instead of war, where money doesn't exist, replicators can create anything you need, including food, and people have all their basic necessities covered.

@tpog1 3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@thaynealexander 3 жыл бұрын

I'm the opposite. I like the unknown and science problem episodes over human ethical problems. We get enough of that in our own real world.

@Svensk7119 2 жыл бұрын

Nah! The best Star Trek episodes were the battles.

@Rubensgardens.Skogsmuseum Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Star Trek IV. It had big political impact.

@MrJBA79 Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love it. It is delightfully left wing and the overarching statement that Star Trek makes, is that the future has a left-wing bias. Which is absolutely does. That's why I don't like Star Wars.. the Rebels are the Republicans and they're constantly trying to overthrow democracy by sabotaging expensive megaprojects while murdering innocent breadwinners and who have little regard for authority and even less for armed forces... it couldn't have been more on the nose if Han Solo wore a MAGA cap.

@taigenraine 2 жыл бұрын

'Warp' is actually being studied in physics, warping space-time to move matter with space instead of through space. It may still be impossible but the math works.

@MrTomFung 3 жыл бұрын

I really wish every episode of season 1 started with "It gets better!".

@Gunth0r 3 жыл бұрын

"So, Magneto..." Oh no, oh no no no. Oh dear god no. I need some tea.

@gymnastoman1 3 жыл бұрын

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. If it’s good enough for Picard, it’s good enough for me.

@jeremyphillips7827 3 жыл бұрын

I know, right? That made me cringe so hard it hurt.

@alouprette 3 жыл бұрын

So. Cringe. Arrrgh! LOL!

@TheKaiTetley 2 жыл бұрын

No dear. That is Professor Sex

@michaelaudreson7761 2 жыл бұрын

I don't even care about the X men but gave up at that point.

@ParkerUAS 3 жыл бұрын

According to Star Trek canonical lore. In Warp Fields (hence Warp Speed) the ship doesn't go faster than light, instead it warps space time around it so as to give the affect of faster than light travel. This was explained on how aging between a character on a planet and someone making all these warp jumps doesn't result in weird age gaps later on.

@siljrath 3 жыл бұрын

@@SF-tb4kb didnt someone claim they'd come up with negative mass in some experiment recently? ... or was it even... negative energy? :o

@captaincaveman177 3 жыл бұрын

Look up the alcubierre warp drive, aparent FTL travel is possible with current physics. They have even been able to reliably warp spacetime in lab conditions

@ParkerUAS 3 жыл бұрын

@@SF-tb4kb , the theoretical harnessing of dark matter would allow space/time warping. The energy to do that would rival small stars.

@pmgmatic1922 3 жыл бұрын

@@SF-tb4kb But then the statement made in the original comment is true, she said current understanding of physics doesn't allow it, well Dr Alcubierre argues otherwise. Also last I heard negative energy isn't even nessesary at this point (something about changing frequencies at which they send energy around the loops of the theoretical ship) , although I am really skeptical about that one

@lanewaddell8144 3 жыл бұрын

Yea I believe the physics does work but you need massive amounts of both positive and negative energy. We aren't even sure negative energy is a think. There are theories about creating locally negative energy through the Casmir effect. I think the US government LEGITIMATELY studied it not long ago.

@James-rm7sr 2 жыл бұрын

Technically, it is possible based on the way warp drive actually works. You push down space in front and raise behind pushing you forward injunction with whatever type of actual engines push out. It basically makes it easier to push the spacecraft around. Star Trek shows that the bubble pulling the ship forward. That is a little different.

@athanatic 16 күн бұрын

Nothing in Trek moves faster than light: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive (the closest to a theoretical warp drive but Warp is a plot device.)

@sampsonike 3 жыл бұрын

You should watch "The inner light" season 5 episoode 25. It has only a little bit of astrophysical scifi going on, but most of all it is an amazing piece of story telling. It is making me tear up just thinking about it.

@hugh.g.rection5906 5 ай бұрын

one of the best episode they did

@iainfreeman5112 3 жыл бұрын

This is interesting. Star Trek is actually the reason why I gained an interest of Astrophysics. To the point I did my Astrophysics degree.

@roguephoenix 3 жыл бұрын

This! This is why I'm having a hard time believing someone who studies stars has not watched this.

@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve heard a lot of people say that! I think I just missed the boat on it being born in the 90s. I don’t remember it ever being on TV and my parents didn’t watch it either. To be honest it was my love of astronomy that got me into sci-if! 😂

@ugowar 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky I think you had to have been born in the 80s to have ST:TNG be on prime-time television while you were growing up. I recall it was really big in the period of 1990-1994, after the 3rd sesion which did make TNG come into its own and set the stage for the subsequent ST series like DS9 and Voyager. Their lore and visual identity all trace back to TNG. Funnily enough, I was a child of the 80s that grew up with TNG and when there was a showing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture on my local TV in 1990 or so, I thought to myself "who are these guys, this is not the 1701-D crew?" :-D

@Worldviewcafe 3 жыл бұрын

ST was the reason I almost got a Astro degree (but later dropped out)

@jonathanj8303 3 жыл бұрын

Contender for "Shortest Scientific Paper Ever"? Title : "Do Exploding Stars Chuck Out Glowing Asteroid Thingies?" No. R.Smethurst

@dernudel1615 3 жыл бұрын

0:30 "I've never watched any of the original Star Trek series." Watches TNG.

@donsample1002 3 жыл бұрын

Der Nudel Well, she did pick a TNG episode that recycled a TOS script.

@decam5329 3 жыл бұрын

I know. Bless. 😆😍

@jcortese3300 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well ...

@Alphathon 3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing "series" here is plural, as she said she _had_ watched the Kelvin films but didn't mention anything else. So "the series which were originally made" not "The Original Series"/TOS.

@dernudel1615 3 жыл бұрын

@@Alphathon I know, just being a pedant.

@tedhenkle 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky, I just stumbled across your channel. I loved the delightful way you critiqued this episode of ST: TNG. I'll be catching up on your more-science/less-fiction videos. Best wishes to you in all your research endeavors.

@MrBoomersfriend 2 жыл бұрын

OK I’m a Trekkie who is hooked because I learned something from you in the first five minutes. Well done!

@arthouston7361 3 жыл бұрын

After two seasons of TNG, everything got settled in and the characters were well established and the writers were sorted out. It got much better then.

@Attlanttizz 3 жыл бұрын

TNG gets real good from season 3. I mean it's all good, but it really picks up in season 3.

@joshuahillerup4290 3 жыл бұрын

There's some pretty good Season 2 episodes, especially Measure of a Man

@MrRomulus23 3 жыл бұрын

thats true, currently rewatching TNG and it blowed my mind how good episodes got starting in season 3. And especially season 1 was really cringeworthy.

@derNephelin 3 жыл бұрын

has probably still the best ending of all TV series period.

@VolkerHett 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, when Berman replaced most of the staff 😊

@iamjimgroth 3 жыл бұрын

@@derNephelin I don't think I've ever had such sadness about the end of a TV show.

@bryceanwhimsey Жыл бұрын

I just watched you react to Contact, and my enjoyment of that video led me to find more of your work. Now I've just heard you say that you're reacting to "The Naked Now" for your first entry into proper Star Trek. Trekkies will understand why my first thought was of Picard smashing his phaser into his display cabinet in First Contact.

@petergonzalez2632 Жыл бұрын

I'd recommend one of the best episodes of STNG "Yesterday's Enterprise" from S3. It has wormholes and the effects of time travel on history. Great episode.

@Vaultboy-ke2jj 3 жыл бұрын

Becky, would be really cool to see your scientific opinion on The Expanse.

@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

Haven’t watched it yet so I’ll add to the list thanks 👍

@Vaultboy-ke2jj 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky it’s a much more realistic depiction of space, so it might be right up your street!

@jounik 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky Heartily recommended. Apart from some hilarious headpalm moments like the Jovian moons approach it's actually rather consistent internally.

@AmarthwenNarmacil 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, definitely watch the expanse. It is so good!

@dewiz9596 3 жыл бұрын

I watched the first season. . . After that there were just so many plot holes concerning gravity and momentum. I guess it has to do with budget constraints in set design.. .

@murasaki848 3 жыл бұрын

Dr Becky: The Girl Who Deliberately Kicked the Trekkie Hornet's Nest. :D

@henryhbk 2 жыл бұрын

The faster than light "travel" of warp travel gets around the whole speed of light thing by not actually "accelerating" per se instead by warping space itself (yeah that's not easy either) you can "move" by simply moving space under you to get to your destination without having to actually move faster than light. In a later episode they discover that a high enough warp factors it is damaging the fabric of space-time.

@TheNathanEverest 2 жыл бұрын

Gasp you called piccard magneto 🤣 loved watching this though two of my favorite things science and star trek thanks for making this reaction 😊

@aalhard 3 жыл бұрын

You can't tear apart the science in star wars because there isn't any.

@hjk3927 3 жыл бұрын

And that's one more reason why Star Wars really isn't Science Fiction. It's more like Space Fantasy.

@lectornox 3 жыл бұрын

@@hjk3927 plus it's in an a long established universe Star Trek is science fiction because in the reality it's based in which is our future hasn't happened yet but Star wars is in the past

@ThanatoselNyx 3 жыл бұрын

@@lectornox sci fi doesn't have to be in the future.

@getonthelist5620 3 жыл бұрын

That is a common misconception. What's often overlooked is that the events in the Star Wars take place closer to their galactic core. The gravity is significantly more intense there, and that changes things like the laws of physics and standard deviations.

@letsgosurfing1786 3 жыл бұрын

@@lectornox and far far away

@kbjerke 3 жыл бұрын

I'm relieved that you only said "Betelgeuse" twice, and not three times... ;-)

@jameswest4819 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm not sure how Picard would have sounded singing about bananas.

@kbjerke 3 жыл бұрын

@@jameswest4819 Well, IMHO, if Dick Cavett could handle it, I'm confident that Sir Patrick Stewart could do it justice! LOL

@thebets457 3 жыл бұрын

Oh look! You've been to Saturn. Hey, I've been to Saturn! Whoa. Sandworms. You hate 'em right? I hate 'em myself! 🤣🤣

@rjonboy7608 3 жыл бұрын

I think I would have liked to see that. 😁

@rogermoore00 3 жыл бұрын

Betelgeuse star would make it even intresting

@xxxxSylphxxxx 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the video! Thanks! (shame about the Magneto blunder, but hey, I can see where it came from!) I wonder whether you do much reading sci-fi shorts? I've found that types like astrophysicists tend to enjoy those more... Also, astrophysics *fascinates* me, and I'd love to see more videos along this format (sci fi show episodes watched and commented by you.) - I'll be watching your 'contact' video next!

@greg_1492 2 жыл бұрын

as a star trek fan all my life this reaction was awesome. I really laughed with you on this one!

@InverseTachyonPulse Жыл бұрын

Yes, same here 🙋🏻‍♂️

@DaddyTroll 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Becky: (First time watching TNG) OOH, LOOK - PARALLAX! ME: (having seen every episode of ToS and TNG multiple times) Huh, never noticed that.

@MariaMartinez-researcher 3 жыл бұрын

First time I heard "parsec" was in TOS. I thought it was a made-up term. 😃

@mpeg2tom 3 жыл бұрын

Alpha Centauri parallax angle from Earth 1 AU is like 0.742′′ so you’d need to move some serious distance to visually see parallax...

@nousernamejoshua1556 3 жыл бұрын

@@mpeg2tom Good idea that light bounces, we can get glimpses of confirmed angles without needing to get that "far out" Although, I think we are! Phases be like, when we have to depend on pet or animal stories for distinction or when Political President elect Biden voices a CoVid19 add like abused animal commercial ( obvious there is a lot more to it than a few lines about tragedy ) reducing inflammation us key, but yeah, rarely do we see anything other than the spokesman because political suicide to be completely forward and responsible rather than degenerate. Actors have no place in leadership, no matter how much I q. Is supporting them. Sorry for the sour note, it blew away. Funny how things slip your mind...then suddenly you remember, you just can't negotiate with systemic distortion termed description discrimination, bigot or racist. But I know how serious and sensitive this is. A build up of inflamation.

@starwarsrebel2006 3 жыл бұрын

@@MariaMartinez-researcher The first time I heard "parsec" was in the first Star Wars movie from 1977 when Han Solo told Obi-Wan Kenobi about the Millennium Falcon. He said, "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."

@markwilson7013 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think they were trying to show parallax, I think it was just 2 badly cut together star fields in the editing transition 😂

@frufruJ 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this series in my forming years 8-12, and Picard was my role model. In a time when TV was filled with beefy strong men, he was an intellectual who solved conflicts with reason, appreciated art, quoted Shakespeare... I totally shipped him with Dr Crusher :D

@dje6719 2 жыл бұрын

Kill all the Lawyers Shakespeare

@KevinSpooner 2 жыл бұрын

In canon, Picard was married to Crusher, for a time, anyway. But I DO wonder when they're gonna just admit that Jean-Luc was Wesley's real father and not the dead, yet horribly cuckolded Jack Crusher.

@genreartwithjb5095 2 жыл бұрын

Picard is an illustration of what a great leader looks like

@seancaptain3043 2 жыл бұрын

We all ship picard with dr crusher

@palomarjack4395 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of "forming", I think you mean "formative". Oh well, that's what happens when someone spends way, way too much time indulging in sci-fi. Go out and read some other literature for a while.

@yasminni485 5 ай бұрын

I know I'm waaaay late to this video, I just discovered your channel. I literally had to stop as soon as you said "I've never watched any of the Original Star Trek series" and then start watching The Next Generation, to check the comment section. Please tell me you have watched some of the old Star Trek movies. My favourite is "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986). It's hilarious.

@fidelogos7098 2 жыл бұрын

Star Trek is the reason I'm a biologist. After watching it, I knew I wanted to be a scientist, but not sure which flavor. When I got to college, the first science class I took was biology and fell in love with it. No looking back, but I still wish I had two or three lives to live so I could be a volcanologist or an astrophysicist or an astrobiologist. Still a kid at heart. Don't make fun of Star Trek!

@markclark787 3 жыл бұрын

You need to do the same with "The Expanse"

@WaystedMined 3 жыл бұрын

100% agree, watching a reaction to The Expanse would be great.

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

@@WaystedMined And there is season 5 coming soon! I would rate The Expanse right at the top of my favourite Sci-Fi series.

@predattak 3 жыл бұрын

@@Outland9000 What do you mean coming soon? It's already episode 3 from season 5. Earth gets hit by an asteroid.

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

@@predattak My comment was posted a week ago... *_Before_* season 5 dropped.

@predattak 3 жыл бұрын

@@Outland9000 Yep.. it seems so :)) i never realized they dropped 3 episodes at once. I thought they went for 1/week. My bad.

@rainydaylady6596 3 жыл бұрын

As a Star Trek TOS, next gen, deep space nine, etc. fan I can tell you that those newer movies don't embrace the Roddenberry ideal. 😁🖖💕

@g0balot 3 жыл бұрын

But they do perfectly capture the essence of the original Star Trek.

@Valdagast 3 жыл бұрын

DS9 wasn't what Roddenberry wanted either. He was good at coming up with a universe but in the 80s he was a spent force.

@GamesFromSpace 3 жыл бұрын

It's just not the same without magic space socialism and space gods every three light years.

@VolkerHett 3 жыл бұрын

@@GamesFromSpace and let's not forget the ships doctors son! He's essential for getting everybody out of a bad situation within 45 minutes.

@cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869 3 жыл бұрын

Roddenberry wanted to present a future where everybody worked together rather than infighting. That's the essence we lost in all the shows when he died.

@kenhelmers2603 3 жыл бұрын

I am not a big fan of most "Reacts to" videos, However I get a big kick out of yours. Thanks for sharing them - gives me a big grin.

@wripley1 2 жыл бұрын

So, I just found this channel today, and it is my new favorite thing.

@visionaryventures12 3 жыл бұрын

5:54 The Enterprise isn’t moving Newtonally anywhere. It’s contracting and expanding spacetime around itself.

@hughmoore786 3 жыл бұрын

. . . kinda like a fly between two sheets of paper ? ! ?

@brianrogers7360 3 жыл бұрын

TECHNICALLY, the camera was moving, not the ship.

@hughmoore786 3 жыл бұрын

@@brianrogers7360 . . . in the bowels of the ship ! ! !

@mintydog06 2 жыл бұрын

If it isn't moving then why does it need a deflector dish? And how can they match speed for transport and to put a tractor on probes?

@torg2126 2 жыл бұрын

@@mintydog06 Warp bubbles must be permeable, or a the crew would be completely blind, and the fuel scoops wouldn't work.

@I.amthatrealJuan 3 жыл бұрын

Dr Becky: This is not sci-fi bashing in any way. 1 minute later: *GOES FULL NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON*

@NeverTalkToCops1 3 жыл бұрын

Snake in De Grass.

@kindlin 3 жыл бұрын

@@NeverTalkToCops1 lol!

@protorhinocerator142 3 жыл бұрын

Pluto is a planet yo. NDT's reasoning for de-planetizing Pluto failed. One of the main reasons was that Pluto didn't clear its own orbit. Neptune overlaps and therefore Pluto doesn't have a cleared orbit, and is not a planet. Kinda makes sense, right? Except that if Neptune's orbit overlaps Pluto's orbit that means Pluto's orbit overlaps Neptune's. If Pluto is disqualified that means Neptune must be disqualified for the same reason. Neptune never cleared its own orbit. And there's no doubt Neptune is a real planet. Pluto Is A Planet

@kindlin 3 жыл бұрын

@@protorhinocerator142 The actualy phrasing is _dominant in its immediate neighbourhood._ This definition works for Neptune because it is by the largest body in that orbital region and dominates all the other body's motion. PLuto is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune.

@kindlin 3 жыл бұрын

I guess if we found 2 similarly sized planets in 1 orbital region, they might both have to be planets, but this has not yet had to be established.

@hughmoore786 2 жыл бұрын

Iron goes from red to yellow to white as it get hotter . . . Electric Arcs (voltage) will sometimes adopt this principle as they migrate . . .

@Briansgate 2 жыл бұрын

Dr Becky, chilling on the couch watching Star Trek. Wife goals.

@tntkff9901 3 жыл бұрын

"Look at Betelgeuse, for example. Betelgeuse is a....." My mind: "Say it one more time, I DARE YOU!"

@fredlandry6170 3 жыл бұрын

Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse.

@dirkhoekstra727 3 жыл бұрын

@@fredlandry6170 It's showtime!!

@chileanguyfleegman1908 2 жыл бұрын

She can't say it three times, her name is not Lydia.

@neutrino78x 2 жыл бұрын

I double dog dare you. Say what one more time. ;-)

@minusfive 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm more of a Star Wars fan…" I… My heart is broken. It'll take a while to recover.

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

I thought all true nerds knew Star Trek is where it's at?

@ninjabluefyre3815 3 жыл бұрын

You can like both of them you petty Ferengi-Gungans.

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

@@ninjabluefyre3815 LOL

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

Star Wars is fantasy, like Harry Potter, not sci-fi.

@FFVison 3 жыл бұрын

For the record, Dr. Becky, you can't hear lasers pew pewing in space like you can during the Star Wars movies

@Mike_Dark Жыл бұрын

Patrick Stewart Magneto that's like calling Allan Rickman Harry Potter

@liamevans9815 Жыл бұрын

"I have never seen any of the original Star Trek series." You still haven't, this is Next Generation. 🤣

@Dingodogo220 3 жыл бұрын

Dr Becky, you should do an episode on the Dyson sphere The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 4

@Ofbricks 3 жыл бұрын

YAAAAS! The episode is called Relics. Great episode also.

@d89taurus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes do one on the Dyson where.... Please please please.... Thank you for making these. We love you for it

@davidrgilson 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!

@johnclawed 3 жыл бұрын

When they said "Dyson Sphere" I though, "Finally! Some science fiction in this alleged science fiction series!" instead of Troi's mother or some such. But then they proceedeed to ignore the thing for most of the episode until they got trapped inside it. Any SF author could have thought of a dozen things to do with a DS but that's all those TNG people could come up with. Well, that and making Scotty look like a fool.

@goliathprime 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I was about to suggest this one too

@akizeta 3 жыл бұрын

"Magneto"!? May God have mercy on your soul, because the Marvel fans won't.

@toxictony4230 3 жыл бұрын

I did cringe at that one.

@rjonboy7608 3 жыл бұрын

He'll always be Gurney Hallek to me! 🤪

@robertelessar 3 жыл бұрын

@@rjonboy7608 Mood's a thing for cattle and love play, not fighting!

@jonathanross149 3 жыл бұрын

@@rjonboy7608 No...he is Leondegrance from Excalibur : "I saw what I saw! The boy drew the sword. If a boy has been chosen, a boy shall be King!"

@rjonboy7608 3 жыл бұрын

😆

@tibbiemcintyre2975 3 жыл бұрын

i love your cat pillow. i just found your videos and you're very entertaining to watch! love it!

@kkehoe5 2 жыл бұрын

In the Star Trek universe, the ship creates a warp bubble. The bubble compresses the space in front of it, and expands the space behind it. So you see the ship is not moving faster than light, the space is being compressed and expanded faster than light. This is how they get around the speed limit.

@whatshisname2497 3 жыл бұрын

I'll always love TNG, it positively changed my perspective on life.

@SilverAura 3 жыл бұрын

Especially because the show was just very... relaxing to sit back and enjoy. Don't get me wrong, Discovery and Picard are great in their own rights but they're more fun to watch, not necessarily a show you sit back after work and end the night watching.

@JohnnieWalkerGreen 3 жыл бұрын

Shaka, When the Walls Fell!

@nilsdock 3 жыл бұрын

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean

@wwoods66 3 жыл бұрын

Becky, her eyes unveiled!

@JohnnieWalkerGreen 3 жыл бұрын

@@wwoods66 Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel. Becky and StarTrek at KZfaq!

@caliberspecificreload 3 жыл бұрын

His arms wide😁 I'm SUCH a nerd 😂

@elbowache 3 жыл бұрын

*Clapping like child*

@Kamenriderneo 7 ай бұрын

5:48 In Star Trek, they explain that they travel faster than light by compressing the space in front of the ship and expending it behind within a "warp bubble".

@akesha4138 2 жыл бұрын

OK I am completely enchanted, love her nerdy personality and enough brains to fill a library. My kind of woman.

@buidseach 3 жыл бұрын

Oh and The Enterprise doesn't travel faster than light, it travels by warping space time and rides it like a wave :)

@michaelpettersson4919 3 жыл бұрын

Kind of redicules sometimes when the warpdrive breaks down and they continue with the impulse drive. Once the warpdrive are operational again it will overtake what distance the impulse gave them in no time.

@danielross7983 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpettersson4919 No ship captain likes to be stopped...

@akostarkanyi825 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and this is a highly speculative possibility / theory of physics about which we don't know yet whether it is relly possible. But that is why it is a sci fi.

@scotth6814 2 жыл бұрын

@@akostarkanyi825 Otherwise they would all be senior citizens before they reached the next star.

@limiv5272 2 жыл бұрын

@@scotth6814 More like their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be senior citizens

@Tuning3434 3 жыл бұрын

I will excuse you if you enjoyed the JJs because of Pine, but.... also, TNG season 1 and 2 are a bit rough. There are a few gems in there, but it only really hits is stride in S3 and onward.

@DrBecky 3 жыл бұрын

So I’ve been told

@TReKiE 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrBecky Also of note, TNG had multiple science consultants, such as Naren Shankar (Season 6, DS9, Seaquest DSV) and André Bormanis (Season 7, DS9, VOY, Orville, Star Trek Science Logs, Star Trek Star Charts).

@crash406 3 жыл бұрын

@@TReKiE, I was going to add that things got more accurate, from the science side of things, when Michael & Denise Okuda got involved.

@jjfergie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your channel! Having a ball watching your vids. And one thing I have learned over the past few days, I would LOVE to sit down and have a beer or 2 with you to discuss this stuff. But I think I'll pass on watching TV or going to the movies... :)

@markmongan Жыл бұрын

I don't care what, you Dr. Becky need to write the next Trek! This video was so fun!

@laurendoe168 3 жыл бұрын

There is a reason it is called Star Trek: The NEXT Generation.... it's not the original Star Trek.

@michaelpettersson4919 3 жыл бұрын

True but Gene Roddenberry was there to create it. His influence was reigned in a bit after season 2 I belive explaining why early Next Generation episodes are so similar to the Origjnal Series.

@earlystrings1 3 жыл бұрын

Captain Picard: Full stop! Helmsman: Relative to which inertial frame of reference, captain? 😂

@hughmoore786 3 жыл бұрын

🚧 Scottie: I got my foot to the fleur cap-in . . . it's all she'll do ! ! ! Captain Kirk: Bones . . . go down the engine room see if you can help Scottie with damage control ! ! ! 🚧

@fhajji 3 жыл бұрын

@@hughmoore786 Scotty: McGyver, go out and reconnect the nacelles with chewing gum and an aspirin. :)

@tehs3raph1m 3 жыл бұрын

Captain Picard: helmsman I swear to god... You know what? Fuck it get that child up here, he won't talk back.

@hughmoore786 3 жыл бұрын

Capt. Picard: The frame of reference that anchors the bars to your cell in the brig if you have anything you wish to add to this conversation ! ! !

@mxplixic 3 жыл бұрын

@@hughmoore786 "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a damage control guy!" :)

@PJB2002 Жыл бұрын

Dr Becky glad you experienced an episode of Star Trek! I'm of the age group who watched all the William Shatner episodes which I thought were magic, and the love for the characters has stayed with me. William Shatner of course went into the space with the Bezoz space craft last year, so he's quite amazing for his age.

@michaelsoutherland3023 10 ай бұрын

Imagine having a flat display sit on a desk that could be used to talk with and see the person. That really was futuristic when I was a kid.

@jasonh4534 3 жыл бұрын

The Star Trek episodes that delve into social commentary, are some of the best.

@paulmillcamp 3 жыл бұрын

When you said "little glowy poopy asteroid" I had a bout of laughter 😂👏 such fun!

@MuckCityProductions Жыл бұрын

5:36 the expansion of space itself can go faster than the speed of light. Warp travel is taking advantage of that .... I think.

@juniusluriuscatalus6606 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else staring Dr. Becky's eyes waiting her reaction? Very entertaining video, thanks!

@erincorcoran5936 3 жыл бұрын

I love star trek. It inspired my love for space when I was just a little kid. I've no mind for math, so I could never be an astrophysicist myself but I love hearing experts explain the science. I hope you react to more episodes!

@theamericandemocracyausers513 3 жыл бұрын

"Oh look, she's going to watch TNG... this should be good. Which episode?" "The space-drunk tie-in with TOS." Me (an intellectual): Oh shit... buckle up. Dr. Becky: STOP TOUCHING EACH OTHER IN THE WORKPLACE! Me: THERE IT IS.

@BassandoForte 2 жыл бұрын

Sorely an intellectual America is an oxymoron... 🤣 #MAGA even meant Made (Republican) Americans Goons Again for example... 🤣

@arrjee3176 2 жыл бұрын

@@BassandoForte 1. Sorely you meant 'surely'. 2. Keep your derisive socio-political comments to yourself.

@BassandoForte 2 жыл бұрын

@@arrjee3176 - Why..?? Because Tsar Arjee says so..?? 🤣🤣 🇨🇳 #MAGA 🇨🇳 Made (Republican) Americans Gulag Appreciaters.. 🤣🇨🇳🇺🇸🇨🇳🤣 Go storm more Capitol's against democracy just like those Russian Communist Revolutionists... 🤣

@BassandoForte 2 жыл бұрын

@@arrjee3176 - Derisive..?? Maybe grow a skin easily offended ❄... 🤣🤣 💁‍♂️ #MAGA 💁‍♂️ Murrica's Angry Girly Army... 🤣💁‍♂️🇺🇸💁‍♂️🤣

@Shan_Dalamani 2 жыл бұрын

It's hilarious that she wants people to stop touching each other in the workplace, yet she likes FakeTrek, when you have FakeUhura whining about her relationship with FakeSpock _while they're on duty_ and actually telling FakeKirk to shut up while she proceeds to whine some more at FakeSpock when they're in the middle of a mission.

@bad-people6510 2 жыл бұрын

If you knew anything about Star Trek you'd know they didn't do the more spectacular effect, not because they need more danger, but because that... would have been expensive.

@tadmurphy7436 2 жыл бұрын

okay that was fun and informative please do more

@danc8278 3 жыл бұрын

The problem I noticed was that they could not only hear the star explode, but there wasn't even a delay.

@antonycharnock2993 3 жыл бұрын

Could it be the Enterprises sensors converting high energy solar radiation in to an audible sound?

@Ishkur23 3 жыл бұрын

Also: Star Trek ships don't travel faster than light. They don't really travel at all. What they do is "warp" through space (hence the name) by entering a pocket dimension called subspace. So rather than they moving through space, they are pulling space through them. This is also how they escape time dilation. How do they achieve this? It's science fiction physics.

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

Warp drive bends (warps) the fabric of space similarly to what you said, but does not achieve faster than light travel by jumping into and out of subspace. Subspace is used for faster than light communications (subspace radio) and is a sci-fi sounding word used in miscellaneous plot developments.

@danskkr 3 жыл бұрын

Also, might be wrong, not an astrophysicist, but isn't it that the math says you cannot cross from below the speed of light to above it, not that you cannot travel faster than light?

@gliberty42 3 жыл бұрын

Also, in Voyager they have an episode - Vis a Vis - season 4 - when they mention a "coaxial warp drive" & it folds space, making me wonder how their normal warp drive works in the Trek universe... I mean, the description above is an answer, but warp drive often means bending or folding space to cross without going through the speed of light - one can go faster but not cross the barrier - but I'd love to hear a physicist explain the difference. Between two fictional warp drives...

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

@@danskkr Yes, that sounds exactly correct to me.

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

@@gliberty42 As I understand it, regular warp drive warps space, and (from memory) in that Voyager episode, it’s just a special kind of warp drive that folds (warps) space to such an extent to achieve the magical-Trek-limit warp 10 speed.

@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 2 жыл бұрын

1:47 Maybe it’s because it’s such a weird event that a supergiant will become a white dwarf?

@kwccoin3115 5 ай бұрын

There is an episode about a pipe which you must watch. Nothing compares to that episode.

@pomedo 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that 2001:Space Odyssey is very accurate when it comes to physics. I would love to see your reaction to it

@khankrum1 3 жыл бұрын

Try 2010 as well.

@AlanCanon2222 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, and it is to the extent it really can be, but there are limits, which are interesting to learn about. Apparently the lighting on the models is wrong for deep space, as there would be no scattered light to backlight an object: anything would be in full bright sunlight or in complete deep shadow. The two instances of spin gravity (Space Station V and the centrifuge aboard Discovery One) are indeed based on a sound physical idea, but I've read that in general you want a much larger ring than Discovery's centrifuge, because of difference in rotation speed between the astronaut's head and legs would be significant, and other issues. It's interesting to see what a movie gets wrong, that tries harder than any other movie ever had, to be accurate and appear realistic. In the case of the centrifuge, the acceleration is given by a truly simple formula, it goes directly as the square of the angular speed and inversely as the radius of the wheel, so just with normal math skills you can play with different values and calculate the spin gravity easily for a given rotation rate and radius (let the rotation rate be once every minute, the radius 100 meters, or whatever you like). The book says that the station's spin gravity was maintained at a compromise between the moon and Mars' surface gravitational force.

@GuitarsnSnooker 3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@gafrancisco 3 жыл бұрын

She done have the brains to do it ...

@AlanCanon2222 3 жыл бұрын

@@gafrancisco She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics. She's seen it.

@herbertthoma6670 3 жыл бұрын

No SciFi series gets orbital mechanics right, with one exception: The Expanse.

@richardbrooks8150 3 жыл бұрын

Orbital mechanics isn't really important when you have a near infinite amount of energy to use. It's been a while since I really read their definitions, but I believe the normal sub-light speed they travel at is 1/4 the speed of light, with the ability to go much faster in an emergency (but they try to avoid to stay away from time dilation problems)

@oldfrog17 3 жыл бұрын

The continuous thrust was unrealistic since ships do not have unlimited fuel. A better show of physics is Battlestar Galactica where the ships don't turn like they are in the atmosphere. Babylon 5 also did pretty well.

@markweston216 3 жыл бұрын

Have you watched babylon 5?

@somedude6161 3 жыл бұрын

@@oldfrog17 FYI B5 has been remastered and will be showing on HBO Max. B5 RULES!

@danavangard9142 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a metaphysics dood, I admit. I ask a lot of unanswered questions, until I get better informed in a worthwhile way like the way you propose in your videos, among other sources. Lottsa thanks for your critical video analyses, Doc Becky.

@Metoobie Жыл бұрын

LMAO!!!... I might make you saying, "Glowy lumpy asteroid poops" my ringtone. You're positively wonderful!

@walther007 3 жыл бұрын

You should watch the series. Once you get through season 3, you'll be hooked.

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

Season 3 episode 16 - The Offspring - is my favourite episode 😢

@technicallytess 3 жыл бұрын

@@davadoff that is one I never rewatch! Idk why I don't enjoy it as much as the others

@davadoff 3 жыл бұрын

@@technicallytess, never watch because it’s bad or because it’s too emotional/good?

@OdariArt 3 жыл бұрын

Star Trek: The Original Series started in 1966. That's what you should start watching.

@JackDesert 3 жыл бұрын

I think she meant the shows in general, having started with just the movies. Like the original shows, not the JJ reboot

@aalhard 3 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine her nitpicking the TV science of 1966?!

@OdariArt 3 жыл бұрын

@@aalhard Yes. Lol!

@Outland9000 3 жыл бұрын

hmmm... Maybe. I always preferred TNG myself.

@ThirdOfJune4444 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you *VERY* much for this review/reaction video! I absolutely loved it! I am a hardcore TNG fan for over 30 years and I think it's safe to say that I can speak for all TNG fans when I apologize for the next episode you may have watched entitled "Code Of Honor" which was rated as one of the worst TNG episodes ever.

@ChaplainDaveSparks 2 жыл бұрын

_"The controls are not responding."_ _"Override!"_ Because we know that at least the _"override control"_ will always work?

@Nyrin78 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@jpe1 3 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised you didn’t scream “explosions don’t go *boom* in a vacuum” at 10:33 I did when I watched that episode (when it first aired, a long time ago in a college dorm room far far away...)

@artifax1407 3 жыл бұрын

I still do - every time it happens in a sci-fi film or TV episode. You'd think I'd have learned by now...

@Unpluggedx89 3 жыл бұрын

"Little glowy asteroid poops" 🤣

@alakani 3 жыл бұрын

I had that one time; just needed a little more neutrinos in my diet

@michaelhanson1400 2 жыл бұрын

Just came across your channel and love it! Haven't been through much of your content yet but I am a Star Trek fan and had to watch this. You asked for another one to watch and I think I have one for you. It seems like you are big in to black holes and Star Trek Voyager Season 1 Episode 2 deals with a "Quantum Singularity". Would love to see your take on this one because I think it might just drive you nuts with what happens.

@mydogbrian4814 2 жыл бұрын

*- Star Trek Voyager* sucked!

@delibflow1868 2 жыл бұрын

Love to see your reaction to episode 6 of the first season: Where No One Has Gone Before. I think the concept in that episode was really interesting and a real scientist’s opinion on it would be great

@fussyboy2000 3 жыл бұрын

This needs a whole channel of its own.

@tefkas1357 3 жыл бұрын

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@mando8469 3 жыл бұрын

Stargate SG-1 has some great science in it. Would love to see you react to that

@chrismarrero5798 5 ай бұрын

So the concept that Star Trek uses for how ships travel at warp speed is explained a few times over the course of this series, as well as some other forms of travel. There is one of the books for Star Trek that actually discusses it in depth how they don't actually go faster than the speed of light. In fact the Federation emblem is actually a representation of the graphing of how their speed works. Might be worth checking out and reacting to if you haven't already.

@imnotgivingawaymyname9954 3 жыл бұрын

i enjoyed your reaction Dr... quite informative and down to earth reviews... as Spock would say "fascinating" ..... the force is with you Dr Becky...live long and prosper..... peace