Picard was ready to lose his shit & Wesley was going to get the brunt of it.

Patrick Stewart is a great actor.

"But he did remember the exact initials you carved into a tree one time"

"Helm lay in a course to Earth, Emergency warp; Red Alert, arm torpedoes...Engage! We'll see if he remembers me once his precious garden is a pile of ash.

@Dave Pitre Still a better love story than Twilight

😄👍 This is why I love STTNG comment sections. Witty humor. Makes me feel I belong.

Thank you. I would have been disappointed if someone hadn't taken that one.

That's damn good 🤣

Never learned her name.... wanted to carve her into a tree anyway.

@@DavidAWA With all due respect, your comment makes no sense.

@@vtr0104 The 2270s! 😉

I get it!

Preach. I had to take O-Chem 5 times (over several different courses) before I finally managed a passing grade.

​@@aqacefanhope you're not my doctor.

@@necessaryvolitio No worries, I didn't go into the medical profession. But if I had, you'd be the first patient I'd fire. Hope you don't talk to your actual doctor like that.

Probably had to sacrifice free time to make up for it, like summer school in a sense.

It did actually. It was only after getting stabbed that he became more than mediocre.

Agreed. Q made it very clear to Picard that his leap before you look risk taking nature was the thing that got him to where he was. Perhaps if he HADN'T failed OC, he would be making better urinal tablets on Optmushithole.

@@JasonAguirre So you think that if he would have passed Organic Chemistry instead of diving headlong into the relationship that would have brought him closer to being the kind of person who takes risks and gets into fights with Nausicaans? It's probably the exact opposite (see the comment above mine).

@@KingoftheJuice18 no, I was saying his life did take a nosedive regardless of the relationship...

Shut up, Wesley!

@@jettisoncargo He did not say that as often as people think.

Wesley was in many ways the son Picard never had, as Picard in turn was the closest thing to a father figure Wesley ever had.

Wesley IS picards son. Watch farpoint and see. Its very obvious.

@@tomdumb6937 Captain Picard. The results are in and you are NOT the father. Wesley saw his father in a hologram recording that his Mom gave him in an episode.

*I liked the attention to detail with the right swear word.*

That joke only works if you don't know what organic chem is actually like.

@@Bobsmith-xq2pr I still shudder remembering organic chemistry, and it has been 50 years!

well he was the top student and the best sport team,

Wesley: Relieving while on duty is embarrassing.

I don't get it.

Relieving is a euphemism for evacuating your bowels or bladder. Doing it while on duty would be embarrassing. Ie you shit yourself.

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😄👍 The comment sections on STTNG vids tend to be just excellent. ... Best of StarF-1337.

"'A F'? You mean, 'an F'?" "I think so. I also failed English."

@@angryretailbanker5103 He also ended up failing anatomy as we can see in StarTrek Picard. Poor man; should have gone with Beverly.

@@wiiu7640 And he failed at "getting sci-fi" in Picard too. God, I hate that show...lol

@@angryretailbanker5103 C'mon, cut the french some slack.

Hubba hubba!

I don’t need organic chemistry to Captain the flagship MFers!

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You mean not just hip to current thought patterns to feign relatability with the hoped target audience? The TNG cast exuded excellence, not just in their acting, but also the material, and their characters.

While similar to the Voyager uniform, it's not the same.

The accedemy is probably where they let the "textile science" students try out there new ideas.

Special emphasis on "stud".

he was inlove with Beverly, and she married his best friend JACK, and picard was the one that had to bring his body home, he felt guilty. if a few thinks were different Wesley would have been HIS son.

This was on the trivia of the show on Imdb.com.

What is it about Wesley that fans hate?

Mostly it's that the writers didn't know how to do the character a lot. So they ended up with some dire scripts involving him.

There's a trope about children in science fiction which causes draws the ire of some fans, too. Science fiction which indulges in children too much tend to focus on them as precious and overly gifted and elevate their value over others on the show. It was to the point that a notable science fiction TV show creator, J. Michael Straczynski, had the slogan "No Cute Kids, No Cute Robots. Ever!" on set. While the handling of children in science fiction has become much more nuanced over time, back then it was a trope, and not a welcome one.

Good observation. It does the same as what Tolkien does and the warhammergame franchise: exploring the universe of the story further by adding all sorts of interesting details. This is how you get lost in imagination.

The development of character is a major artistic purpose.

Reminding people that human socialization should be a basic aspect of existence is not a bad demonstration.

World building.

Oh yes, by segwaying the plot into completely irrelevant subplots and characters that are quite literally of zero consequence. Tom Bombadil was a complete waste of time, but let's keep praising Tolkien as if there isn't quite a long list of problems and issues with the books he wrote...

Even a Picard gets a boner.

It happens though. You can end up acting like your partner in a relationship. Happens a lot when people date stoners or people who drink too much.

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Not where i studied. The initial courses were pretty basic

All depends on the major...

@@bobm9941 But turned vitriolic about halfway throughout the learning curve?

@@ThaFuzzwood I majored in chemistry, so yeah, pretty much

HotaruZoku Kinda like life, eh?

Yeah- first/second season kinda spoiled it because the writers were really not sure, and Roddenberry himself was not sure; After Roddenberry died I think that the writers decided on a more mentor/protege relationship for Picard and Wesley. Having said that, it's kinda clear that Wesley does admire and care for Picard and Picard growns to feel the same for Wesley.

*It had all the dynamics of a Father-Son relationship, of sorts.*

We did. She was the Nausican who stabbed Picard in the back with a 12 inch blade.

Yaaasss

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Some people have a narrow focus on what they do in life. Boothby's focus is clearly gardening and landscaping, not Starfleet.

Knowing what we saw of Boothby, he was probably just sandbagging it. He would have kept close tabs on every notable academy graduate, but just doesn't go hyper over them when asked about it.

My first thought on hearing it was that Boothby was starting to have memory related issues that maybe weren't so bad he couldn't garden, but were bad enough he couldn't put names with faces, especially someone he may not have seen in decades.

Hahaha because of the Guinan thing.

I failed English (my favorite class) because of G.M. See, I cut too many classes. But, think on this, moonlit nights on the Riverside Golf Course under the shade of Oak tree making "Holes In One" Hahahaha

I got Cs in Chemistry and Calculus last year because of A. M.

I got a D because of E.J.

Oi you keep me out of this, you failed that on your own terms.

Organic chemistry sounds so fucking cool, I love chemistry

@@Cobalt985 It sounds cool, but with the amount of mechanisms that you have to memorize, and parts of stereochemical structures that you have to rotate around bonds in order to try get it to fit into some 1 in a million reaction that you go crazy searching for. "Ugh" is the right word! Even in the labs, you still have to write lab reports!

Organian chemistry is probably more stimulating.

@@jamietung8233 It's not too bad when you realize it has nothing to do with general chemistry and more about how to solve puzzles. If you take the solving puzzle approach then it becomes much more workable. Many who strictly come in thinking it will be all quantitative analysis end up being the ones who do poorly, at least at first.

this is so funny for what

As early as season 2 Picard has intimated that he really regretted NOT having a family BUT at the same time he was lady crazy. Picard had no problems getting into intimate relationships; it was allowing those intimate relationships to continue and making space for them in his career that was the problem.

If Picard had formed a relationship with AF, then he might not have been where he was needed and humanity might have been destroyed by the Borg.

gnshapiro this episode which is called “The Game” came almost exactly one season before “Tapestry”. Both episodes are some of the best of TNG in my opinion.

@@MelonDoesStuff Ok, it makes sense then that Picard had not learned the lesson about regretting his so-called past mistakes....

Organic chem is everything when you're in command

@@haddy106 😂

Facts

lol, Wesley Crusher gets an A+ in Xenobiological Gender Studies.

When he's the captain of a starship, he'll be sorry he took creative writing instead of engineering.

What are you talking about? He mentioned two classes.

Education elitism...one sign of a stunted mind.

If I had stayed in college another semester and studied two German classes (and I would have included Japanese), they would all have been electives, but they would have given me a minor in German along with my B. S. in Zoology. No small thing considering I was a member of the German Honor Society: Delta Phi Alpha. I was taking the next Chemistry class after Organic -Physical Chemistry -and a classmate of mine boasted he would get a Chemistry degree and a Medical degree at the same time as a double major. I asked him how was he going to do that; full - time semesters are like full - time jobs and more. He said he'd do it. I did poorly on a number of the tests, but I went to the professor and he was delighted to help me understand what I got wrong. And then every test, the boasting guy came up to me and asked me to explain it to him. I, having little grasp of it myself, told him to ask the teacher, that he'd be glad to help. He didn't seem to like that answer. But still he boasted about his double major, up to the point when he dropped Physical Chemistry. I struggled through math and science. And I succeeded. And these were my favorite classes. I asked for help; he didn't. I passed with a C. He dropped the class. Just because someone takes a course doesn't mean he'll pass it, even English 101.