No, thank YOU for posting it in the first place. Very few Star Trek scenes have ever influenced my life the way this one has. Having it on-demand on KZfaq here has been very helpful. I have to make a hard decision soon on whether I come forward with proof of wrongdoing during this crisis, fearing retaliation and the loss of my job, or if I listen to myself and stand up for the truth and for what is right. I've come back to this video of yours a lot lately. It's convincing me to do the right thing even if it's inconvenient or has potential negative consequences for me personally, when it's public safety that is at stake here (not getting any more specific than that). The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, another good ST quote I would do well to remember. Anyway, thanks.

This quarantine thing really brings us all together huh?

How's get funked sound loser

@@DanTheManMS I would stand my ground and thell the truth. He's the ONE mun I would trust with ANYTHING...ANYTHING in the world

@thestudy4880 Remember that human societies, cultures, theologies, and ideologies are a bell curve with two bad ends, (sometimes presented as a horseshoe, where the extremes of all sides fall into the same behaviors.) I have spent my life as a quiet bookish science nerd -- Star Trek fan implies that -- in rural conservative deeply "religious" American small towns. The opposite, in every way, of progressive. My neighbors loathe nonheterosexuals, nonwhites, nonconservatives, nonPentecostals... And they don't even really know any people in any of those groups personally. They learn that contempt and hate remotely, from multiply-rewritten palimpsest Stone Age scrolls, Pepe-frog-laden web threads, and broadcast news opinioneers. Not from personal experience, since they have no personal experience. Sure, we have a few gays, a few science-educated doctors, a few liberal professionals, but they stay closeted, quiet, in fear of what comes if the people discover them. And yet the devout conservative religiosity they trumpet is a façade, a con. Meth and fentanyl labs abound, pills and weed are sold in Pentecostal church parking lots after morning service, adultery is as rampant here as anywhere, and unpunished domestic violence, theft, and burglary abound. And yet, to hear them talk, rural white rightwing Pentecostals are as wonderful as it gets, antibiotics and chemotherapy are a liberal pharmacy con, and all a person really needs is Faith and essential oil. If they die, they didn't have enough Faith. Insanity and human folly abound in every culture and theological or political framework. Including progressivism, who sometimes assert closing all jails and ending police forces will end crime as we know it. My county doesn't have a jail and the five deputies never actually enforce any laws, so I can attest that not having law enforcement and jails won"t end predatorial behavior. Star Trek was a fond escape during youth, when I felt so alone in studying and testing scientific theories, quantitative data, inferences, and reasoning. I had to keep it a secret, though, or an adultering pill-popping spouse-beating Pentecostal deacon would scream at me for being evil. Human folly exists on all sides. I suppose, perhaps, so is some human decency. I liked Star Trek for showing an idealist but balanced path: they had science and technology, vastly reduced exploitation of human vulnerability and child hunger, but also security teams, weapons, and shields. They had the best of both worlds.

I’m sorry regular dad. I’m sorry you’re not from space. There’s less cnts in space.

He’s was Space Dad to us all.

Alternate reality Wesley: I'm a gay robot! You're not my space dad!!! Picard: I said dismissed!!

Cringe .The only Space Dad is Optimus Prime .

Patrick Stewart's performance as Jean-Luc is suitably dignified and hard-hitting.

"I'm going to make this simple for you, Mister Crusher--either you come forward and tell Admiral Brand what really took place, or I will!"

ouch....

@@rhenvao2844 OUCH.....

This is becoming a speech.

@@pinballwiz45b You're the captain, sir. You're entitled.

Watching this speech makes me want to fess up and I didn't even do anything!

Is your first duty to the truth?

The whole truth and nothing but the truth

You are so weak, I recommend you watch Star trek deep space nine. The characters can rebuke picard as easy as a blink of an eye, especially Garak, a MASTER.

@@MegaBorgqueen B5 (Season 2 to 4) was a a better DS9. It had 2 war arcs that were continuous instead of DS9's episodical format which interrupted the storyline with filler episodes. Ron Moore though, fixed that problem when he did Galactica with a continous format and no filler episodes.

Greatness of the episode is how both are right From a certain point of view

"snitch" is a dishonest person's word.

@@davecrupel2817 snitch is someone who rats someone out

@@ronniejdio9411 Boy isn't that basic. A 911 caller about a guy wearing a trenchcoat holding an AK driving to a mall is a snitch. Someone telling their parents about their siblings doing drugs is a snitch. Fuck it. I'm siding with the snitch. Better that than to let bad people do bad things without opposition.

@@davecrupel2817 the 2nd one is different a snitch. The first one is a fantasy fallacy that's never happened

I don't think he was the most vulnerable. That would have to be Archer. Archer was the first Earth captain to really push the boundaries of human exploration, and he wasn't really prepared. He couldn't be, yet he felt he had so much he had to prove. So out he went with a a total lack of experience and a ship that was usually outmatched. The other captains at least had years of Starfleet training and had served in a professional officer corp before getting the captains chair. They were as prepared as any human could be.

@@Elthenar Picard's vulnerability is his emotional side, not his experience with command. He is a man who finds it... difficult, at best, to keep his crew - his bridge staff even - at less than arm's length. That's why him finally showing up to Poker Night at the end of All Good Things is important.

@@namillus9754 Perhaps but I still stand by my point. No captain was as in over their head than Archer. Janeway's situation was arguably worse but she had probably 2 decades of service under her belt by the time she took command of Voyager. She also had a crew that largely trained as well as anyone. Archer was the first one out there, he had nothing to fall back on and had to figure it all out on the fly.

@@Elthenar - That's why Archer is arguably the best captain of them all and by far the most important. Without Archer, the Vulcans and Andorians wouldn't have been at peace with each other and the Federation wouldn't have been formed. Easily the most important person in the Star Trek universe. I just wished Enterprise had another Season so they could have dealt with the Earth Romulan war in detail. It was a tragedy that Enterprise was cancelled after only 4 seasons. As for who's the best actor. that's easy - Patrick Stewart. He's easily the best actor to have ever starred in Trek.

@@Jimbo8012 I just wish that Enterprise had a more coherent writing staff. It was better than people think but it did have it's flaws. whole temporal cold war was pants-on-head stupid. There had more than enough ground to work with just establish the build up to the foundation of the Federation.

Orville has them =)

And Justice

This show should be watched by children for sure. It teaches all kinds of lessons and has hundred episodes or so. Plenty. I didn't have a dad and got most of my information on how to "be" from Picard. I have seen every episode twice or so and each one has a lesson.

it was all fine until Wesley lied to him directly.

The story has a bias. The experiment couldn't be done with unmanned ships?

@@manuell3505 It wasn't an experiment, it was a training exercise, so the point for them to be human operated.

Some modern shows rely too much on special effects instead of good writing, If you like good writing watch the V 2009 reboot, it has many intricate storylines!

@@seriascannain6675 The "V"?

"V"?

@@seriascannain6675 true, but part of the problem with modern writing is pushing agendas (not that writing never did, but now it's so hamfisted and blatant) instead of trying to tell a good story. It's like the difference between a fantastic character in a story who happens to be gay and a fantastically gay character in a story who happens to be extremely poorly written.

@@SubduedRadical The loss of nuance and substance.

@Stefano Pavone ..and given that Wesley Crusher was a young boy that Captain Picard brought aboard, supported and encouraged him (probably because of his relationship with Beverly) and even gave him the rank of a bridge officer onboard HiS ship.. and to hear that HIS Ensign lied not only to a board of inquiry but to him as well.. what Captain wouldn't almost jump out of his skin and want to rip this young cadet a new one. Picard's disbelief turns to outright anger as he dresses down Cadet Crusher..

If you notice his voice wavers slightly as if he is choked up. Brilliant acting.

This is what happens when you get a theatre actor to do your sci fi.

get over yourself

This is when Wesleys world of Bullsh8 came crashing down

@@jayjohn9680 yes, and it was glorious

Brian Johnson a diploma is only paper if you passed all your classes

Agree, the whole episode had holes that made no sense. Someone died and they lied to cover it up during the trial, but the only punishment was him losing one year of credits and a mark on his record.

If it had worked they would have gotten a slap on the wrist and had a great story to tell on all the ships they served on.

What's the maneuver called?

Wow, it's almost as though teenagers don't think things through.

There are people out there like him my friend. Many different people, all different in their ways, but nevertheless give the sense of hope that he instills.

True but we could do with many more of them in the public eye like politics and so on, areas that can impact people in a good way, sadly, most of them are overshadowed and don't get noticed.

Wil Wheaton really needs to learn from Picard.

We have one. DJT!

We have one. Patrick Stewart.

DS9 appeals to the uglier side of humanity.

DS9 showed a more rounded image of humanity that was true just as much to our better nature as to our worse. However you are right in that in doing so it lost a little something from TNG. Not that this made it a bad show but it was significantly different.

@@BadWolf739 I dunno I think DS9 was a necessary counterpoint to the idealism of TNG. It showed what happens and what Starfleet officers are faced with, why their values are so important, and ultimately it showed how the rest of the universe benefited. Remember that wonderful scene with Garak and Quark talking about Root beer, Gala's moon, and the destruction of the Cardassian empire? In it all they talked about the outsider view of the Federation and in the end it showed exactly what those values stood for, how despite the suspicion and the derision and frankly some of the arrogance of them they are something that people ultimately learn to believe in and trust and rely on. I think TNG and DS9 are a perfect counterpoint to one another about the values and ideals of it all. One lays it out and the other tests it beyond its ability to hold. When DS9 breaks past those values it ultimately I think shows how important they are. Without that TNG's idealism would always seem too perfect and untested. And once I've slummed in the universes' worst hour in DS9 I feel refreshed returning to the clean idealism of TNG that acts as the guiding light, what we can all aspire to even if in practice we fall short.

The season this happened in was the same one in which Gene Roddenberry died. That's when things started to change. They no longer had him looking over their shoulder anymore. It's common knowledge that he was trying to stop Paramount from doing DS9 because he felt he'd said everything he wanted to say with TNG, not to mention they were considering things he would never consent to. I have to wonder if the battles over that didn't contribute in some way to his death. If he were alive, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery (especially Discovery) and Picard all would not exist. That being said, I actually liked DS9 a lot. As much as I loved TNG, I thought that Sisko's rant about the Federation's attitude towards the Maquis summed up one of the things that got a little tiresome with TNG. Yeah, the Federation's great, but they've taken that greatness to the point where they believe they can do no wrong because they can't see beyond the "paradise" that is Earth.

Might I recommend The Orville? It starts out as a comical “spoof” of trek, but it quickly becomes what is basically the essence of TNG but in another franchise

Yea. It was startling how good the camera work in this shot was for syndicated television at the time.

I've always felt - and probably always will - that the legal process is part of the problem. It often is less about finding out what happened so protections can be put in place to prevent harm in the future and more about how someone can get crucified over the situation. That leads to the calming up part. In the Navy, one of the things that people learn is that the first thing to do in any crisis is "cover your ass", which means find some way you can explain the situation where the blame isn't on you. It's a pretty shitty system, honestly, made so not by the people in it, but by the way higher ups or even people who have never been in the military want to treat the situations. Instead of something that will make things better, they engineer a system where the incentives are all to avoid responsibility rather than to take it. And the thing is, even the people doing the investigations act the same way when they're in bad situations themselves. When something bad happens at the highest levels, they seek to find a scapegoat as well. It's a rare person in the military that DOESN'T function this way (I did not - my first priority was always ensuring everyone's safety, getting the situation to a safe state, then determining the cause and implementing solutions to prevent it happening again), but those people (as I did) tend to leave once their contracts are up instead of staying in it.

"progressives" are actually regressive.

@@LawlessNate Stop projecting.

@@Carakav So your argument is "no u".

@@LawlessNate It's a response which is intellectually on par with a with your original empty, jingoistic, talking point.

@@Carakav Trump won the election; the voter fraud will be proven in court and the conservative majority SCOTUS will confirm him to a second term.

This was one of those father-son moments. Wesley looked upon Captain Picard at times as a surrogate father. It wasn't just a disappointed captain, it was a disappointed dad!

*he wasn't a jerk trying to shit all over a dead kid's memory* That doesn't make him a good person. Malevolence is not the sole measure of this. He clearly pushed them to do it for his own aggrandizement. Whatever you want to point to in his conduct surrounding the result, he put them in this position for himself first. Also do not neglect the fact that he ignored the fact that one of his men couldn't do the maneuver and therefore he clearly pushed him to do something he shouldn't have, and in influencing his other pilots he caused them to not doubt that one man's weakness or encourage caution and it created a group think that lead to the accident. Locarno may not be an evil person, but he's not a good person when you look at all this. He ignored the red flag that he was risking everyone's lives over one man's weakness, and the primary reason for this was self aggrandizement.

Nick Locarno was right about loyalty to the team, but the team is Starfleet, not merely Nova Squadron.

@@BollocksUtwat If he's not a good person, OR a bad person, then what the hell *is* he?

@@davecrupel2817 Three is a gulf between evil and bad. Malevolent people are often evil or approach it. Not being a good man doesn't mean you're malevolent or evil.

I’m going to make this simple for you Mr. Sapre - either you come forward and tell your mother what really took place or I will!

@@VulKus117 im dead

@@VulKus117 I… I can’t :-(

Then you don't deserve to wear that uniform!

I want to agree, Patrick Stewart is my favorite, but there have been so many good actors on Star Trek it'd be impossible to rank them. Avery Brooks break down at the end of "Far Beyond The Stars" brings me to tears every time.

"Patrick Stewart is easily the best actor." Fixed!

It's either him or Leonard Nimoy.

As a long-time Trekker, who knows whole episodes of the TOS by heart, I have to say Zoe Zeldana, the new Uhura, is probably one of the top five on the show, -- ever.

Correct. There's simply no comparison. These days the actors they have on Discovery and Picard, however, are gaining ground.

This is what makes Picard so great and I swear as I was a kid growing up watching TNG, Picard had a big impact on how I turned out in a good way by making me see things in a more moral and right way.

That's how i felt about picard but then i watched TNG and now he's my favorite captain.

if only he was real

He's not a natural-born U.S. citizen, so it's a no-go. Unfortunately.

Federation President.

Everyone.

Picard wouldnt go for that "Dont let them promote you. Dont let them transfer you. Dont let them do anything that will take you off the bridge of your ship, because while you are there, you can make a difference" -James T. Kirk

At 2:03 That had me wondering... was Picard going to just slap that Wesley before saying... how dare you! or shut up wesley! or liar!

You wanted to fess up but had done nothing.

With Patrick Stewart taking the sword right through the heart. “You *choose* not to answer?! But you’ve already given an answer to the inquiry.” Who needs a blaster or explosions when Picard just eviscerated a boy’s soul in with just a few words.

Naren Shankar is Fred Freiberger and Kathleen Kennedy. He shows up late and starts ruining the franchise by ripping it out from the inside.

To bad Wil Wheaton is a damaged lunatic

@@dpsmyface3868 You guys are far more damaged.

@@dpsmyface3868 If you guys don't know the difference between fantasy and reality. You shouldn't be commenting on the mental health of others.

@@Vespyr_his behavior is well documented. Maybe if you are simping for a sad old former child star you shouldn't be making assumptions about strangers on the internet.

Wes was to big of a Mary Sue. You just couldn't enjoy his character.

Recall when Ensign Ro deserted. That's the angriest I've ever seen Picard.

Stewart was trained from Shakespeare plays, and it shows.

Wil has spoken about his time on the show, and has said he was treated wonderfully by all the cast. He said they never looked at him as a young brat kid actor, they treated him just as equal, same respect as any other adult actor on the show. Sir Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes became mentors and role models to Wil, especially since Wil's own parents were horrible narcissistic cruel people, who ruined Wil's mental health. Working on TNG gave him friends, people who treated him like a normal man.

Ethics 101 for Benjamin Sisko.

Ethics 101 for journalists.

Ethics 101 for presidents, PMs and all politicians.

Ethics 101 for Jedi.

Obi Wan disapproves.

it's amazing how his.. what I would categorize as soft counterpoints make a BIIIIIIIG statement and an even bigger impact to follow.

Most of my sense of morality comes from Jean-Luc Picard.

@Internet Entity I don't find it boring to story telling. He may be lawful good but he react with passion, passion is what make the story boring or not.

Jason Adank who needs school when youv got Picard?

Greg K ,Don't talk shit about peoples religion! That's rude AND disrespectful!

*Lovely TT* I didn't bring it up *Jason Adank* Did! I was just pointing out *The Truth* about it! All I have to say is *TRUTH HURTS!*

I think you're talking about the devil. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jslpeMV0zq3Xl4E.html

Greg K ,ACTUALLY that's NOT the truth that's just what YOU believe!

Sir Patrick is a trained Shakespearean actor, no surprise how good his acting was here.

Suriner darkmateria - the picard song ftw

When that "truth" part came up, I was suddenly reminded of the song...off to go find it lol

Good one.

@@veritasg9020 In the end, though, Sisko didn't have to live with it, did he?

What you didn't see off-camera: Senator: Sir, the Federation just assassinated Vreenak and forged evidence to blame it on the Dominion. Praetor: (slowly clapping) I honestly didn't think they had it in them.

Because Sisko CAN live with it..

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges.

Iskander4000 This claim discredits countless other timeless scenes. It's good no doubt. But there are so many throughout this series.

If Picard blasted wesley right there… nothing could or would hold a candle to it

Idk lol there's a LOT of competition

That made him captain of the flagship.

Well played LMFAOO!!!!!

How about "You can't handle the F***ING TRUTH!!!" (a few drops of spittle lands on wesleys lying face) ***** SMACK********** SMACK********** SMACK*****

Picard isn't his commander through.

Starfleet isn't a 21st century military

+toad g In the words of the great Homer Simpson. "Stupid things is what makes life worth living." Also, fuck the rules.

They would probably be barred from Starfleet service.

Yes. Court martialled and lose many years off of their career (which is terrible at a young age). They would still be Ensigns while officers their same age would have reached LT or LT Commander.

They would've sabotaged their own Starfleet career for sure. Perhaps a civilian agency or outside world might try to recruit them for flight services, but there's no way Starfleet would want anything further to do with them. At the very least, the cadets would have been discharged from the academy and Locarno, being the leader, would have faced court martial charges. The episode therefore made no sense.

@@oldtwinsna8347 Not necessarily if this stunt would work and you have dad who is the Admiral of the Starfleet :D

He was doing it because both him and his friends would lose everything they worked towards.

In a military unit it is common for the members to be loyal to each other. You can try to sell the idea of doing things for god and country, but often a unit will do the things they need to do for each other. Wesley would have had to throw the rest of his team under the bus. This was the first time that he truly belonged in a peer group of others of his own age.

You would snitch on your friends?... OK, pal... Good luck with that attitude in life.

@@MuddahFukkah you have terrible friends i think

@@MuddahFukkah That only matters if you HAVE friends to snitch on. If nobody's your friend, snitching is easy as breathing.

​@@MuddahFukkah good luck to everyone who has the misfortune of being affected by your actions, and your friends' actions. isn't it interesting how you immediately resorted to an argument from self interest?

@@MuddahFukkah If your friends got someone killed through stupidity and tried to cover it up by lying under oath, would you cover for them?

And Wil Wheton I'm sure.

Like Fox? The most watched news program in the country?

Sound proof doors. The captain's ready room was always for private discussion with his crew. Remember Commander Riker was yelled at by Picard in many episodes in their too.

You're the Captain, Sir. You're entitled.

Hmph! I'm entitled to ramble on about something that everybody else knows.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise.

He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic-to-topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.

incredibly unbroken sentence, Moving from topic to topic, Incredibly unbroken sentence, Moving from topic to topic. Moving from topic to topic. Quite hypnotic.

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Yeah that would be an interesting plot. But it would never have made it as a tv series on its own. Don't get me wrong it has potential but perhaps one or maybe two movies could cover that same thing. Besides, to much time has gone by for that to take root now. Too bad, it would have been cool to see.

I don't know-seem like a few episodes I've watched, Picard talks about his past in a few times. Aside from Kirk-picard was my favorite-janeway-ehhh...sisco had his moments. I think if the writers at paramount (Star Trek writers) could play with the idea. Here's this cocky smart ass cadet talking shit and picking fights--the veiwer(s) are thinking...he's commanding the enterprise? (Stargazer). See how he met Guinan-, pretty vague on how they know each Other. Q could show up-erase, picards memory at the end of the episode, show him what would happen if he didn't join star fleet. Writers could play with it. Think it could work.

Agreed. I've been pining for "Picard Begins" for a few years. You called out all the parts that need to be in there. What's difficult is that he served on the Stargazer of *twenty-years* before abandoning it. There's a 4 year gap between then and the Farpoint mission so maybe this story could take place in there. Pre-Enterprise Picard recalling the events that led him to where he is. My only gripe would be a lack of Q, who, is the perfect foil for Picard.

They already have a "wildcard, short tempered, ladies man and trouble maker". Captain Kirk.

They were going to, but it got replaced with Discovery. From what little information was revealed, they had planned to turn the Ferengi Union into one of the major powers through their reform. Personally, I think several story arcs from Star Trek Online are worth adapting into television series' arcs, particularly the story of New Romulus and The Iconians, but also the backstory of the Na'kul and the details of the Temporal Coldwar and the return of the Vaaduar. It'd also be nice for the Voth, Undine(Species 8472) and Tholians to get more screentime.

that was a terrible movie.

@@scottmatheson3346 that's great, but I didn't ask

Wesley, and the other cadets performed a banned maneuver, with the idea that by doing so, they'd graduate in a blaze of glory. One pilot died, and the other four almost got killed as well. The survivors then preceded to lie under oath during the investigation. Is that behavior you want to encourage? Leadership is not built on lies and ego building. It's built on credibility and trust.

Look up the shenanigans of the engineering students of CalTech or UBC or MIT or any technical college/university. They conducted elaborate feats like hanging Volkswagon bugs off the sides of bridges, placing exotic art sculptures on roofs, or ruining football fields with lime and burning gasoline to write immortal effigies. Yes, they got in trouble, and their stunts required lots of money to fix/repair, but it also made them legends and they were all graduating anyway so their punishment was minimal.