🖖STAR TREK TNG 3x3-4 The Survivors | Who Watches the Watchers REACTION

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@jenmurrayxo 3 ай бұрын

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@allengray5748 3 ай бұрын

Heck Yeah! On board Captain Jenway! 👽 🍿☮️

@e.d.2096 3 ай бұрын

Like, Like, and then Like again! 👍 may I suggest more original episodes! Thanks Jen, TNG and you always brighten my Sundays!

@christhompson6010 3 ай бұрын

From this season on the writing gets really good. By this season the show had come into its own finally escaping the shadow of the TOS

@nicholascross3557 3 ай бұрын

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase, usually traslated as 'Who will watch the watchmen?' and is generally quoted regarding matters of power, authority, misuse, corruption and accountability. It is of course, also the core theme of Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' and Edgar Wright's 'Hot Fuzz.'

@jrobwoo688 3 ай бұрын

If you really are interested in religious philosophy, then please watch Dogma starring Alan Rickman.

@noneya3635 3 ай бұрын

This is when TNG started telling their own stories and not just rehashing the TOS scripts that Gene had in mind for Star Trek Phase II. And the actors found their footing for their characters.

@jasonhoagland8444 Ай бұрын

Ronald D. Moore taking over as head writer for the show really upped the quality of the writing.

@jabecker21 3 ай бұрын

“Good tea, nice house” is something my friends and I used to say all the time.

@Smokie_666 3 ай бұрын

That's too awesome!

@eskreskao 3 ай бұрын

Has the quality of tea really decreased this much since then?

@jabecker21 3 ай бұрын

@@eskreskao No, we would say it about anything we liked. Just one of our many often-quoted lines from TNG while it was originally airing.

@jamesbeach7405 3 ай бұрын

I've always liked that line

@Unethical.Dodgson 3 ай бұрын

@@jabecker21 I think you're missing the joke he's making in regards to how you said "used to" :)

@JoshuaDMaley 3 ай бұрын

"If you're gonna believe in a god, it might as well be Picard." Your logic is flawless.

@jenmurrayxo 3 ай бұрын

😂😂

@kevinlewallen4778 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good candidate for a Wisdom Nugget to me!

@Ian-xx1xb 3 ай бұрын

Nice one Kevin I agree 💯 🙌@@kevinlewallen4778

@JJ_W 3 ай бұрын

@@kevinlewallen4778 It's been a long time since we've seen the Jen's Wisdom Nuggets. I miss them.

@kevinlewallen4778 3 ай бұрын

@@JJ_W I miss them too. But it sounds like Jen has put them in the rearview mirror. Some of us continue to glean fun Jen statements from the vids and tag them in the comments.

@sonnieandjacob 3 ай бұрын

The immortal being is even sadder when you learn that his real life wife had just died before he did this scene

@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 ай бұрын

Do you mean the actor, Kevin Uxbridge? I believe his wife had died the year before. It certainly added emotion to the scene.

@davidareeves 3 ай бұрын

John Anderson was the actor, this episode first aired on October 9, 1989, and his wife (Patricia Cason) passed on February 18, 1989. Either way, great actor (character actor known for Gunsmoke, MacGyver, and M*A*S*H to name a few) who would definitely had drawn from his loss.

@marialanier6155 3 ай бұрын

Awesome Show ❤❤❤ l

@TheGoodDoctor1701 3 ай бұрын

"Are they all dead? Oh God. She's in a completely different outfit" That, all said in one breath, is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

@Billinois78 3 ай бұрын

Troi anguishing over the music box song in her head is basically me when that Mariah Carey Christmas song comes on.

@Markus117d 3 ай бұрын

😂

@CsykKrit 3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@theevilascotcompany9255 3 ай бұрын

"All I want for Kot'baval, is you..."

@r.d.hargrave8159 3 ай бұрын

That Paul McCartney song is the worse one for me!! 😂🤣

@tskwerl 3 ай бұрын

John Anderson, who played Kevin Uxbridge, was a veteran character actor with hundreds of roles under his belt. His wife died shortly before filming this episode. He said it was his hardest role.

@rosshall6475 3 ай бұрын

The plot for Who Watches the Watchers was soo good that the studio just did the same plot again in Star Trek: Insurrection

@3Rayfire 3 ай бұрын

Just with a different twist and greater peril.

@Valkyrie77 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, basically they did... but with a twist.

@captainbryce1 3 ай бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers was better though. An original story that was executed better. “Insurrection” was a lame rehash of this episode combined with the seventh season episode Homeward. Two recycled plots cobbled together with some action sequences, lame jokes, over the top acting from a boring villain, and some weak special effects that do not hold up very well.

@helloweener2007 6 күн бұрын

@@captainbryce1 Still better than "Star Trek: Nemesis".

@Kap00rwith2os 3 ай бұрын

To me these two episodes represent the BEST of Star Trek. It makes you THINK about issues related to culture, philosophy, spirituality, morality and humanity, and places those issues in a science fiction wrapper. The character of Jean-Luc Picard, with his maturity, clarity of thought and steadfast ethics is a character that I want to emulate as a human. This is one of the many reasons why I ❤this show, and why Picard is one of, if not THE best Captains in Starfleet (and I will die on that hill) 🥰

@davidcorriveau8615 3 ай бұрын

'I admire Gall.'

@nonconsensualopinion 3 ай бұрын

I always enjoyed Worf's appreciation of adversaries. As a warrior, he always respected and admired a good challenge. "You must have Klingon blood!"

@bigneon_glitter 3 ай бұрын

A chilling, cerebral slowburn, _"The Survivors"_ is an important ep as it was one of the earlier moments when _TNG_ began to come into it's own as one of the superior dramas on television, at the time.

@fusionaddict 3 ай бұрын

“Who Watches the Watchers” is probably the *ultimate* Prime Directive episode. Easily one of the best episodes of the whole franchise, if not *the* best.

@davidareeves 3 ай бұрын

Agreed there, I always loved this episode.

@meewec2091 3 ай бұрын

it also showcases starfleet's morality, they spent time and effort to try fixing the mistake when they could have easily disappeared the village to fix it.

@mikewashko 3 ай бұрын

It truly shows the character of Picard that he was willing to die to prove to them he was not a god. But as a life long Star Trek fan those people couldn’t have picked a better person to deify.

@georgeheilman4243 3 ай бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers is a wonderful and influential episode, and I love how it addresses the moralities of the Prime Directive.

@MackerelCat 3 ай бұрын

Definitely a fan favourite!

@Windrave 3 ай бұрын

Who Watches the watchers holds a special place for me as it's the first full TNG episode I ever saw when they had re-airings of new episodes on Sundays. It was just when I was getting into Star Trek (my uncle bought me the 5 VHS Movie set which had trailers for Star Trek VI on it) and when I saw this I liked it so much I started watching every week.

@LiveFreeOrDieDH 3 ай бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers was the first "Prime Directive" themed episode that I remember watching, and it left me with a powerful impression. I think I'm less critical of the prime directive than many Trek fans because of this.

@cyberingcatgirls7069 3 ай бұрын

It's in my top ten episodes.

@jamespfp 3 ай бұрын

Yep, a great pick for one of the seminal "Prime Directive" driven episodes, especially considering the "proto-Vulcan" nature of the culture being studied. In other words, they're informed by Logic but they haven't formally rejected emotion and sentiment, making them more like Romulans without saying so. And Juvenal was a Roman, wasn't he...?

@deathtoraiden2080 3 ай бұрын

The wife of the man playing the immortal being died shortly before he filmed that episode. It's probably one of the reasons his acting at the end is so moving.

@KingApeiron 3 ай бұрын

'Who Watches the Watchers' is SUCH an important episode and it's criminally underrated - not included on most "must watch" TNG lists. It's the kind of gem that you only get to see by hunkering down and watching the entire series.

@rivercat962 3 ай бұрын

My wife and I appreciate your commitment. One of my other fav reactors is watching ST:TNG but she’s watching key episodes. Your choice to experience all episodes from all seasons is the only way to truly be immersed in this lore, this cannon, this family. Thank you again.

@CrashWizard 3 ай бұрын

Hopefully at some point the two of them can collab and talk ST for a while. They'll probably get along, they're both Canadian.

@hellomark1 3 ай бұрын

@@CrashWizard This would be fantastic but the problem with Canada is they're both still several THOUSAND kilometres from each other.

@IggyStardust1967 3 ай бұрын

@rivercat962 Gosh, I wonder who you're talking about. ;)

@scottrabie 3 ай бұрын

Jenn and Cassie both wearing a red TNG uniform this weekend is awesome.

@timeofgifts 3 ай бұрын

@@CrashWizard Well, they've already collaborated, at least twice, for a certain annual event one might mistake for a flower show.

@brom00 3 ай бұрын

Those actors that played the elderly couple ni 'The Surivivers' are Hollywood veterans and were great. You have seen that actor, John Anderson, before. He was the used car salesman in 'Psycho',

@tedcole9936 3 ай бұрын

Haha, awesome. I never would have made the connection on my own. Thanks!

@Billinois78 3 ай бұрын

He was in a lot of westerns, too. Often the tough, but sad and listless man, mourning a son or wife. So, his role on this episode wasn't too new for him.

@brom00 3 ай бұрын

@@Billinois78 I believe his wife did just before or during the filming of this episode so his performance is truly poignant.

@taylemgames2652 3 ай бұрын

He is also the original MacGyver's grandfather, Harry.

@trip189n 3 ай бұрын

John Anderson also played a hardass fire fighter Captain in one episode of the 70's series Emergency!

@Hedylamaar1969 3 ай бұрын

Despite all the Vulcans who serve on the Enterprise we're going to send down just Troi and Riker in disguise.

@arosha1 3 ай бұрын

Dr. Selar was on vacation I guess.

@matthewdinslage7179 3 ай бұрын

Pay attention going forward and you will see that quilt they gave Picard draped over his chair in multiple episodes.

@BouillaBased 3 ай бұрын

Kevin Uxbridge is one of my favorite characters of all time, not just in Star Trek. And he was played so well as a soul tortured with the guilt of an incomprehensible crime.

@moosiedoom1310 3 ай бұрын

The Watchers episode was shot at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California. This location has been used in over a dozen Star Trek TV episodes and movies.

@Icewid 3 ай бұрын

Pamela Adlon who played Oji in Who Watches the Watchers would win an Emmy award for King of the Hill and have a very successful voice acting career.

@arosha1 3 ай бұрын

Oh wow, she's Bobby Hill!

@miguelvelez7221 3 ай бұрын

What? 😮

@harveylee51 3 ай бұрын

@Icewid I'll have to pay more attention to King of the Hill now , and i have a fascination with voice acting as well . 🎙

@empirejeff 3 ай бұрын

Picard's monolog at the end of the surviors sounds like something Rod Serling would say.

@artboymoy 3 ай бұрын

It does fit in very will with a Classic Trek feel that was a bit like the Twilight Zone in ways.

@miguelvelez7221 3 ай бұрын

@@artboymoySURVIVORS has a VERY strong TOS feel in all the best ways.

@harveylee51 3 ай бұрын

@@artboymoy Those were two of my favorite shows growing up both TOS TREK and Twilight Zone and i like the way you never knew from week to week what the new episode would be about .

@seanmcmurphy4744 3 ай бұрын

@@miguelvelez7221 Yes, there were so many TOS episodes with aliens with godlike powers

@TomasZ08 3 ай бұрын

Only Picard could prove to someone that he shouldn't be worshipped while simultaneously being a god among men.

@Gav-mj6lx 3 ай бұрын

Those rocks, first seen when Kirk fought the Gorn - they get everywhere, don't they? I blame Q myself.

@CsykKrit 3 ай бұрын

"Dude, we're dead!" 😅

@TroyConvers5000 3 ай бұрын

Good tea. Nice house.

@joemasters2270 3 ай бұрын

Hey - the older woman was also JIm Carrey's assistant in the movie Liar Liar

@bemasaberwyn55 Ай бұрын

"Good tea, nice house" Worf is hilarious

@MaxSchmerz1986 3 ай бұрын

The Survivors is another fav of mine. The speech of the alien at end gets me every time. Pure Star Trek🖖

@michaelfinlay6341 3 ай бұрын

John Anderson gave us a fucking masterclass in just a few moments.

@anonymous15432 3 ай бұрын

Loving the increased frequency of the tng episodes!

@stormingelysium1996 3 ай бұрын

I hope at some point you get a chance to see the Farscape series. It has a lot of crazy aliens and issues of morality from different points of view.

@miguelvelez7221 3 ай бұрын

Yes. Another fan of Jon and crew on Miya. Definitely a good choice for Jen.

@3Rayfire 3 ай бұрын

Nurya and Picard is such a cool duo, their conversation and her evolving understanding are incredibly heartwarming and beautiful. I really love that episode. And Picard actually keeps that Mintakan cloth that they gave him.

@marksmall9891 3 ай бұрын

One astonishing aspect to "The Survivors" mystery is that Riker never gets it, and Riker is no dummy.

@Stockslivevan 3 ай бұрын

In the first season there were so many episodes where Picard was totally flummoxed and didn’t really understand what was going on until the last five minutes, and well after audiences figured it out. Seeing Picard later on like in this episode being able to connect the dots and put it to the test was very refreshing for early TNG.

@robertbunting3117 3 ай бұрын

"A retirement planet all to themselves." sounds like heaven

@chadhartsees 3 ай бұрын

I always thought there was subtext here that perhaps this was a lost population who were part of the Vulcan-Romulan exodus a few millennia ago.

@HawkGTboy 2 ай бұрын

I love how you can identify the individual musical instruments in the score. I grew up with this show but that analysis gives it a new dimension for me.

@shinrapresident7010 3 ай бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers is my absolute favorite Star Trek episode of all time! So excited for this!

@kevinlewallen4778 3 ай бұрын

But there weren't any bees in it! :)

@robstephens1111 3 ай бұрын

This is the first time I have heard a reference to Lagrange points on a show, a real point in space between 2 bodies.

@anonymes2884 3 ай бұрын

In any two body system there are _five_ Lagrange points in fact (but true, only one _between_ the bodies, which may be what you meant).

@charlesmaurer6214 3 ай бұрын

Ideal points for a station, holding area and perhaps even useful in teraforming. Milar mirrors ballenced near such points could warm Mars or shield venus by reflecting the Sun. There are points between the sun and behind each planet plus a pair set ahead and behind the planet's orbit. With mirrors the point would need adjusted for the effect of the solar wind on the mirrors. Light shifted to or away from a planet could help make them more Earthlike. While other means would need to be employeed as well, solar adjustment would be a big start.

@cyberingcatgirls7069 3 ай бұрын

@@anonymes2884 There are asteroids in the Lagrange points 60 degrees in front of and behind Jupiter. I learned that while researching for my sci-fi world building years ago. Then The Expanse came out and did almost exactly what I was trying to do. >_< Oh well, great minds, I guess.

@kevinlewallen4778 3 ай бұрын

@@cyberingcatgirls7069 The Trojans, right?

@cyberingcatgirls7069 3 ай бұрын

@@kevinlewallen4778 Yep!

@Garflick347 3 ай бұрын

I really enjoy STNG Sundays

@jenmurrayxo 3 ай бұрын

Me too! 🖖

@tbirdguy1 3 ай бұрын

Both of these episodes belong in the hall of fame of Sci Genre TV writing. Timeless stories of the future and the past, along with meditations on morality, divinity, and the eternal nature of the universe and it's endless possibilities, and potential horrors.

@alexspindler1 2 ай бұрын

"If you're going to believe in a god, it may as well be Picard.". Beyond true!

@ElectricKnight. 3 ай бұрын

The casting and performances in Survivors are just magnificent. I love that story and how it unfolds. This show produces a lot of gems and that is one of them. Both of these episodes, really!

@BezoRazo 3 ай бұрын

_C o m m e r c i a l b r e a k !_

@christopherlundgren1700 3 ай бұрын

These two are both standout episodes, and I had forgotten that they were back to back. What a pairing. WWTW is so good I actually remember where I was when I saw it as a 9 year old. I was at my friend's, and I remember being utterly enthralled by it.

@drail37 3 ай бұрын

The character of Liko in "Who Watches the Watcher" is played by the great Ray Wise who was one of the stars of Twin Peaks (which I'm again going to totally recommend you watch) Edit - Hearing Ray Wise say Palmer over and over again had me laughing real good.

@rddrum2003 3 ай бұрын

Favorite part of these reactions--"commercial break...!" 😂

@artboymoy 3 ай бұрын

This first series of episodes are such bangers. Troi's new outfit is sexy AF. The uniforms are still evolving. When Kevin revealed his crime I was like, "Holy Shit!" Great episode. And then there's WWTW. Great preamble on your part for what the episode may be about. Such a great episode as well. The season is off the chain! When Beverly talked about the Pulaski method of removing the memories, it was probably just more for the audience and not really a canonical thing where Pulaski was the first to do it. And Beverly said the procedure might now work on Mentakin brain physiology. And obviously it didn't, but there was no way to really test it before hand...

@DaveWraptastic 3 ай бұрын

Who watches the Watchers is probably my favorite episode of the entire series. So thought provoking.

@IAmNotANumb3r 3 ай бұрын

The actress playing the leader of the village is Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Maggie Evans in the Dark Shadows TV show in the 60's.

@gomikmay 3 ай бұрын

Thought that name sounded familiar.🤓

@lazyperfectionist1 3 ай бұрын

24:21 "Yeah. They must seem like absolute _gods."_ The late futurist, Arthur C. Clarke, once observed, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This episode expounds on that.

@lazyperfectionist1 3 ай бұрын

30:16 "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, just seems like magic." Oh. You know the quote. That's awesome.

@3Rayfire 3 ай бұрын

And to quote Captain Pike regarding a corollary to that law, _"The law was debated by scientists and theologians alike and later reinterpreted, to say "any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God"."_

@ChrisReise 3 ай бұрын

2:38 Hey, I just realized that this woman is Anne Haney, the woman who played Jim Carrey's secretary in "Liar Liar". I love her.

@ChrisReise 3 ай бұрын

29:30 Love Patrick Stewart's use of a cæsura (timely pause, strategic silence), here between Jean"-Luc" and "Picard"

@chrisbullard5901 3 ай бұрын

This is where Trek turns the corner, once Michael Piller took control of the writer’s room.

@zombiechief 3 ай бұрын

These videos are absolutely fantastic cant wait for more

@EnsignAhkinum Ай бұрын

Thank you for analyzing the show, and what it was about. They tried to fix the contamination of what happened. And they did it very well.

@robinhood2524 3 ай бұрын

The filming location of Mintaka III was also used in Arena, Star Trek IV as Vulcan and other episodes😊😊😊

@shawbros 3 ай бұрын

Picard, at 14:05 "You'll be taken to the nearest starbase, and be held responsible for the attack on the enterprise, and possibly the deaths of 11,000 people" Picard, at 15:26, after hearing Kevin saying he killed 50 billion husnock: "We have no law to fit your crime" So, Picard would have Kevin taken into custody for 11,000 deaths, but lets him go for 50,000,000,000 deaths.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 ай бұрын

The actor that played the Douwd, Kevin Uxbridge, had lost his wife the year before he did this part which likely added to his realistic emotions in his final conversation with Captain Picard. We all wanted to see a confrontation between "Kevin" and "Q": One immortal being with a passive ideology against one with no qualms about doing whatever the heck he wants. When Picard beams that woman onto the Enterprise and tries to explain to her that he is not a god, it's one of my favorite scenes in all of Star Trek. Certainly in the top ten for me. His logic is flawless, though he still fails to convince her until he is shot by an arrow and bleeds. Great television! [edit: Actually *SHE* was convinced when she saw the Picard could not save their crewman]

@IggyStardust1967 3 ай бұрын

The difference being that Q isn't outright "evil", he's more of a prankster who loves to annoy those he choses to (especially Picard). But I could see Q annoying Kevin to the point where Kevin locks Q in a cage he can't get out of until be swears to behave himself.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 ай бұрын

@@IggyStardust1967 There have been other superbeings throughout the series too that they could bring into some sort of ultimate confrontation. Yeah, I wouldn't categorize Q as evil necessarily. More like a prankster as you say, or just amoral (as opposed to immoral). Almost like a child in a way.

@gooseman_x 3 ай бұрын

Two of my favorite TNG episodes

@Ian-xx1xb 3 ай бұрын

So awesome to see over 1200 in the chat today a truly jensational turn out . Ty everyone for making every sunday so special and showing so much love for jen on her star trek voyage 🖖🙌✨

@LuminairPrime 3 ай бұрын

This reaction was... magic ✨30:40

@r2153 3 ай бұрын

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@The_Kiosk 3 ай бұрын

Lol, yesterday i watched popcorn in bed reviewing key season 3 episodes. Cassie wore what looks like the same size uniform as Jen wears, but over her pajamas.😂 never too much TNG.

@miguelvelez7221 3 ай бұрын

They need to do a crossover. Ditto Target Audience.

@camelotvfx 2 ай бұрын

I love the ending on The Survivors. The older gentleman's acting was great at the end, like you said, much higher quality than the typical guest actor, and the whole story had me wondering what was going on because it made no sense up until the end. Then Picard's reaction, that he wasn't fit to judge, along with his Captain's Log narration and the mournful music. You're right, there's an air of melancholy to it that feels much more nuanced and mature than some of the storytelling in the earlier seasons.

@HawkGTboy 2 ай бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers was the episode I used to introduce my kids to TNG. It’s one of my favorites.

@waybec102 3 ай бұрын

To me, this is where the more punchy dialog shared amongst the cast really kicked in. The late Michael Pillar really knew how to give the series a good shake down and so thus, shape the rest of the series to seal the stamp of it being an equal classic to the original. Instigating an open script department, where anyone could send in a script without the need of an agent, also paid dividends. It's a pity, some shows don't have this now.

@Markus117d 3 ай бұрын

Trouble is all shows these days are continuous arc's... The days of self contained episodes are over for now.. I personally prefer a mix of story arcs & standalone stories, As it's impossible to get the variety of different tales an episodic show can pull off in a serialised show..

@garryhopkins5454 3 ай бұрын

@@Markus117d I have always felt that shows that are serial become lazy in their writing. Episodes, as self-contained stories, are harder to write, at least if you want them to be good. I don't mind small story arcs within the overall episodic framework though. A little goes a long way.

@Treffaut Ай бұрын

"There is no law to fit your crime" hits like a brick every time.

@jasonhoagland8444 Ай бұрын

Season 3 just hits with one amazing episode after another. Not many people do Star Trek reactions so I'm loving revisiting TNG with your channel.

@seanmcmurphy4744 Ай бұрын

Yes, IMHO the best season. I think a major reason was that the writers respected the audience's intelligence. As Jen mentions later, they don't explain everything and allow the audience to figure stuff out

@SilentBob731 3 ай бұрын

20:45 Damnit Jen! I'm a Doctor, not a Man In Black!. 😁

@gwenthor 3 ай бұрын

Another great Sunday afternoon with Jen and TNG! The Survivors is an amazing episode! Picard is my favorite captain. Commercial break!

@TroyConvers5000 3 ай бұрын

The subject of Picard breaking General Order 1 (The Prime Directive) is bought up in a later episode.

@pringals 3 ай бұрын

"Who Watches the Watchers" is one of my favorite TNG episodes.

@LoneCloudHopper 2 ай бұрын

I knew when watching these episodes air back in the 1980s/90s that I was being treated to something special and that nothing like this would ever air again. Here in 2024, I can say I am right so far.

@mattstrathis4328 3 ай бұрын

Picard managed to go against everything he was preaching by going down to the planet, taking an arrow to the chest, and then coming back to life! 😂

@BH6242KCh 3 ай бұрын

"Get off my space lawn!!"

@TheLouisvilleJedi 9 күн бұрын

Who Watches the Watchers is definitely in my Top 5 TNG Episodes. I'm looking forward to seeing you watch Family and First Contact (the episode, not the movie)!

@rdumontdebeque 3 ай бұрын

In the TNG universe the concept “watching ” pre-industrial societies was probably controversial. How did StarFleet come to such a decision ? How many duck blinds exist on other planets? A very good episode.

@anonymes2884 3 ай бұрын

Star Trek Sundays with Jen - a cure for what ails you :). Decent pair of eps these, a melancholy take on what might happen if a being like Q ever got _really_ angry and an examination of the Prime Directive (hadn't thought of it before but they really are a bit of a thematic pair - they're both about capricious "gods", just told from different perspectives). Plus, Troi finally gets a wardrobe upgrade :).

@hypnomagician 3 ай бұрын

Both these episodes are fantastic TNG favorites of mine. Before the Soap Opera style- these serials are bringing me back.

@herbertkeithmiller 3 ай бұрын

30:07 Ah Jen 😊 you have come a long way in your journey in learning the ways of science fiction. You're use of the Arthur C Clarke's phrase any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, shows you have attained a masters degree of understanding. 🚀 (I've been reading Sci-fi since the early 1970s, so yeah I'm qualified to say that)

@hasongraham8674 3 ай бұрын

Star trek season 3 is my favorite season of television. Very much looking forward to your reactions. Thanks for posting.

@tommc4916 3 ай бұрын

The actress playing Ogi, the daughter, was also the voice of Bobby Hill in "King of the Hill."

@xzonia1 3 ай бұрын

Two great episodes. The first one is so tragic. Who Watches the Watchers is one of my all-time favorite episodes. I could see you really enjoyed it too, Jen! Great commentary at the end there. :) Thanks for the opportunity to revisit these episodes with you.

@silikon2 3 ай бұрын

Picard: Beverly I thought you said you knew Pulaski's technique. Beverly: uh... oops?

@Markus117d 3 ай бұрын

Dr Crusher did say it may not work on Mintakan physiology..

@3DJapan 3 ай бұрын

I always remember Marina Sirtis's acting in the first one.

@user-vf4wi2og8b 3 ай бұрын

Greetings Admiral Murray 🖖🙂 Enjoyed your reactions, as always ❤️. Hope you have a good night, and a perfect week. Live long and prosper.

@Ian-xx1xb 3 ай бұрын

i look forward to next jen sundays all week 🖖permission to come about the jenterprise lady jen Make it so but first lets LIKE the video 👍

@Garflick347 3 ай бұрын

The best programming on any service!

@TeddysTube 3 ай бұрын

@ ep. 3/3 - It just occurred to me that that being could potentially be a quite useful ally against the Borg, for whenever we encounter those guys again. 🤔 .. Oh, and thanks for your great work. I really enjoy your reactions.

@stygggian 3 ай бұрын

This is such a great and important episode.

@BH6242KCh 3 ай бұрын

It's fun watching this while the same episodes are playing on Pluto TV.

@ChrisReise 3 ай бұрын

24:08 This female Mintakan (Nuria) Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Sally Decker in the first episode of "Police Squad"

@ChrisReise 3 ай бұрын

23:25 Do you recognize this terrain as the same place Kirk was fighting the Gorn? It's also where Kirk and the gang discovered Lazarus.

@jasoncaldwell5627 3 ай бұрын

A pair of really good episodes! The first one in particular is a favorite of mine- the mystery of the Survivors was very entertaining and the end was satisfying and melancholy.

@neutrino78x 3 ай бұрын

Jen Murray, I love both these episodes! Did you notice that Who Watches the Watchers was recorded in the same area as the episode where Kirk fights the Gorn? Many things were recorded there. It's called "The Vasquez Rocks", it is near Los Angeles. 🙂 My understanding is that it is a popular place to record westerns and Star Trek, because under union rules, you don't have to set up remote overnight housing because it's close enough to LA. 🙂

@davidmarsden192 3 ай бұрын

Two of my alll-time favourite episodes!

@DavidSoholt 3 ай бұрын

Look at the size of that thing! - that’s what we said! (Sorry, low hanging fruit) ps. “Can they beam his voice down ⁉️.” Bless your little heart‼️ ❤

@TheNeonParadox Ай бұрын

I'm getting caught up on all your Trek stuff after finding your channel. Who Watches the Watchers is one of the best of the best. It's obviously a Brennan Braga episode with the undertones, and it was one of those that really got my brain-gerbil running when I was very young.

@tackysum 3 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this week's reaction very much. Thanks. Two good episodes that feature some of my sentimental favorite guest actors from my childhood, John Anderson and Katherine Leigh Scott. John Anderson did many guest appearances on 60's TV and films in every genre, from westerns to scifi. And Katherine Leigh Scott was Maggie Evans on the soap Dark Shadows.