To explain McCoy's accent, there is an episode of the original series where he, Kirk and Spock are exposed to a disease where they rapidly age. The older McCoy gets the more prominent his southern accent gets until he's basically colonel saunders.

Dude, I’m so glad somebody brought up the guy in the skirt! I thought I was going to my grave alone with that. Did you notice how buff dude was, his Cena-size arms? You can imagine the discussion looking over the extras pool - ‘Who are we putting in a skirt to make a point… oh that guy for sure.’

Miles o'Brian is the most important person in star trek u wait and see

I don't think the writers intended it at the time, but looking back at this episode after seeing the whole show, it definitely feels like Q was using reverse psychology on Picard and actually trying to help humanity. It really feels like Q was being intentionally hostile towards Picard for most of the episode so that Picard wouldn't listen to him when he told Picard to blow up the jellyfish alien.

Roddenberry was really bucking the trend with TOS and TNG by depicting a utopian future for humanity. In a time of Mad Max, Escape from New York, The Warriors, Robocop, etc, Gene gave us an alternative where humanity *finally* got their 💩 together. We put on our big boy pants and figured it out.

Picard is freaking out about kids because in the normal course of events, Starfleet vessels do not have children on them. The Enterprise is different though, it's the flagship of the fleet & it's primary function is actually diplomatic. As a way of demonstrating that the ship is not a warship, or the vanguard of an invasion, the crew are permitted to have their families live with them on board. It is worth keeping that in mind, it's kinda wild the amount of times Enterprise just leaps into the middle of complete insanity while having 20-30 actual children on the ship !!

I’m glad to see that Dr. Pepper has lasted until the 24th century. Unless that is a 400 year old can of soda. Then that’s a very expensive and likely disgusting can of soda.

It is wild watching the first dozen or so episodes of TNG and realizing they had NO plan for what these characters roles were on the ship, especially compared to how formulaic the character roles would become in future series. What the heck was Worf, Geordi and Miles even there for? They were completely superfluous! Especially when Wesley stole the helm position! And why wasn't there a chief engineer on the main cast? Why was the councilor on the bridge? Absolutely wild. Also, Miles is the unsung hero of the Federation. Straight up. One of the best characters in the whole franchise.

Oh & btw, if you "have the conn", it means you have "the status of being in control of the ship's movements". Normally the captain "has the conn", meaning they direct the helmsman/pilot (Geordi in S1) where to go & how fast to get there.

Miles O'Brien is one of my very favorite Trek characters of all time. one of the only named enlisted personnel in the franchise.

Encounter At Farpoint was initially a double-length episode. It was split into two parts for repeats (I think you guys call these re-runs, but I’m not sure. We call them repeats in my country). From your commentary, it seems you think it was the other was around. The. first time that I watched this episode, I had no idea that was Dr. McCoy.

Apparently orginally there was talk amongst writers and Gene about Wesley being Picard's secret son. But ultimately they decided that made Picard too evil...especially since Picard sent Beverly's husband to his death.

i wonder if McCoy showed up to give us an idea of how long after tos this takes place. like, we know it's a good long while, because bones is looking more like dem bones dem bones, but still within the lifetime of the original cast. the originals are still alive and around, and may return some day.

Yes, Gene wrote the whole "Q" plot line and shoehorned it into DC Fontana's Farpoint script to make it a feature length premier (which he didn't want). Then took 50% of the writing credit for himself which didn't go over well with Fontana.

[Me] Computer: Soda, Doctor Pepper, cold, in the can. [Replicator] This unit is unable to vend objects in a restroom facility. Please restate request.

Geordi La Forge was originally the helmsman before he became the chief engineer. O'Brien is a Chief Petty Officer, an NCO.

O'Brien went to DS9 to give it some oomph to start out. Worf went over for the same reason--the show was struggling at that time, and it was to get TNG fans more interested and follow it.

I was just starting college. My brothers watched it right away. I distinctly remember the second Q episode from S1 when it aired. Those S1 eps were, in my mind, newer versions of TOS--very Roddenberryish; kinda stiff. I totally panned the show until S4. My brother told me about the Borg and said, "You've got to see this. The show is WAY better than it was in the first year." He was right. Watched Seasons 4-6 when they aired. Got busy getting married during S7, so there are some of those I've still never seen.

When it comes to the Star Fleet dress code, one thing to understand is that Gene Roddenberry's opinion on sex was "Yes please!".

You guys do a great job of hinting at future plotlines without actually revealing anything. I've watched Star Trek since the very early 70's (shame since I wasn't alive when they were originally aired) but you are bringing this to a new generation. Thank you.

A huge part of TNG makes so much more sense if you make up the backstory that Riker and Troi are both somewhat con artists who faked their way into their position.

Their cartoon avatars are giving Sealab 2020 vibes and its awesome. Like hourly workers just chilling in TenForward after their shift lol

So I just found this out through shorts popping up on my feed. Guess I gotta start from the beginning now! Lmao.

Ahhh love this podcast! I listened to all four seasons over the last month or so and now I don't know what to listen to while I'm doing stuff anymore 😭 This is really cool too, keep it up!

Andromeda with Kevin Sorbo was the other series you couldn’t remember

33:15 I think it’s at the cost of pain because all that information from most (or maybe all?) of the electromagnetic spectrum is being fed directly into his brain all at once, and it constantly has to work overtime, not only to process that information into something resembling“sight”, but also to parse insignificant stuff like our brain does effortlessly for our normal eyes. When you see through his visor in a later episode it’s not 100% exactly what he sees because it’s being converted from all kinds of different frequencies into visible light the rest of the crew can see. Any device showing those frequencies, that doesn’t send them directly to the brain will never be able to show our eyes what he truly sees. As for why he can’t numb the pain idk! I’ve got theories that range from “his brain uses part of that pain to interpret certain parts of the information” to “maybe a side effect of treatment causes an effect like double vision for us” to “he wants to appear like a hard-ass to people” lol.

Miles O'Brian is literally just some dude who somehow always ends up getting assigned to work with these like, ridiculously heroic & charismatic people. He's a total NPC but I kinda love him :D "The minstrel boy to war is gone. in the ranks of death ye will find him. His father's sword he hath girded on, with his wild harp slung behind him."

I love ds9, miles is one of the best characters

I love your podcast and absolutely love your KZfaq shorts from the podcast. I always wished you would do the whole podcast with the show clips. I'm so excited your doing this. Thank you.

Miles is great and gets fleshed out so much more in DS9 but the BEST is the Lonely Miles comics... fantastic

This should be interesting to listen to because I'm definitely a more hardcore fan than anyone on this podcast 🤣🤣 btw found this channel via the hilarious YT shorts!

I'm so happy I ran into your shorts of your podcasts! It's been about 2 years since I last watched TNG and you guys poking at some holes and analyzing Star Trek has me rolling Jerry Reed! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I kind a can relate to Picard being uncomfortable with kids. He has no idea how to talk to them, should he treat them like adults, should he talk down to them....? He has no idea how to approach them and still represent the authority of a captain. I kind a get that. And he simply wants Riker to handle interaction with kids so he doesn't have to.

31:01 Data has agency. Star fleet disnt say "come join us!" Data said "I'd like to join starfleet"

Hes more than a hero, hes a union man

Just got my best friend into Star Trek for the first time, we’re starting with TNG as well. On season 4 now and going strong!

IIRC canonically the TOS Enterprise is also supposed to be able to separate the Saucer-section but it was never done in the show

Woo! Glad to see these out in the wild! So cool! Can't wait to relisten and watch these for the first time :)

It’s also weird how Patrick Stewart is doing a kind of transatlantic accent where he tries to pronounce certain words in a more American way. For example, he introduces Number One as ”William Rikerrr”

Full Betazoids should be mandatory bridge crew

So I've re-watched this a few times since listening to the podcast. I think that the manual docking was done to showcase Riker's skill to his immediate subordinates to build quick trust with them. It's why there's a lot of smiling reaction shots from the crew once it's completed.

Alright I've probably watched at least 40 of the shorts , so you got me. I'm starting here at the beginning. Wish me luck.

Its so hard not to be critical, knowing how much better the first two seasons coukd have been written and shot and acted.

I like your animated Q easter egg cameo near the end of the pod.

Miles keeps showing up because apparently Colm Meaney is a really nice guy, and just a pleasure to work with. When they needed a random crewman, many times they would just call him up for the role because they liked him. That’s how he ended up growing into a really important character.

Separating the saucer at high warp sounds really difficult! Nope. It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience!

I just started watching these TNG reviews and now I have to binge every episode.

How am I so late to this? This podcast is now my next couple months at work with my ear buds in.

32:54 The cure for Geordie would involve genetic augmentstion. The show writers where still unsure how the ban on genetic augments would manifest. So they just applied it sweepingly. No genetic augmentation at all.

I absolutely love the podcast, listen to it is like I’m rewatching the show for the first time. By the way the reason McCoy is acting off with Data is because part of his character is he is distrustful or uncomfortable with technology it’s the reason why he refuses to use the transporter, and in the original series he tends to favour more traditional remedies. It’s also part of his relationship with Spock, he is uncomfortable at times with a Vulcans belief in pure logic and it makes McCoy and Spocks friendship really fun .

I just discovered your channel today and subscribed. You guys are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

When TNG came out my mom and I would both watch, her in California, me in Oklahoma. We would talk about it on our bi-weekly phone call. Back then long distance calls cost money. It was very special to me

O'Brian was sent to ds9 due to fan popularity I have heard

So this is an exciting podcast for me, because I grew up watching TNG as a kid. Granted, our family didn't start watching until it caught my parents' notice around Season 3, but even if they had watched it from the get-go, I would have been barely 3 when Encounter at Farpoint premiered. Thank heavens for syndication though, because it allowed me to catch up and watch the entire show. New episodes would air on Thursdays (and I could only watch after I did my timestables), so I watched most of Season 3 and all of Seasons 4-7 new. But after the show ended, it still was on other networks (mainly Space later on) in the 5 pm slot, the perfect show for after school. So gradually, I saw all the episodes (most of them, many times over). By now, I've also seen pretty much all of TOS (give or take an episode or two I think); none of the Animated Series (apart from some clips); all of the movies; only a smattering of DS9 (my parents switched it off maybe a season in, and I started watching it on Netflix but only got a bit into Season 1, since it left Netflix); 99% [if not all] of Voyager (my parents liked that show better for some reason - and we only had 1 TV growing up); All of Enterprise; then only 3 episodes of Discovery, 1 episode of Picard, and nothing else, mostly because I'm too lazy to pirate stuff anymore, and too poor to buy Crave or Paramount + or whatever (plus Discovery and Picard seem pretty mid, from what I've heard/read). I would really like to see Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds though. And I would LOVE to finally see all of DS9, dammit! You also got me through a bunch of the shorts, so, starting at the beginning now.

In star trek, there's something of a traditional to have a character from a previous show appear in the pilot of a new one to hand off the torch, so to speak

You're prediction Riker's phallic manual control stick in Insurrection :D

I always got the impression it was Data's choice to join Starfleet. They didn't make him do it, he said "I wanna do it" and they said "Cool, sign up here."

would be cool if you could add still images of the stuff they are talking about like the "broken umbrella"

I love the idea of Bones embracing his confederate roots in his older days. XD

The person walking in the conference room in the intro was there in the original broadcast, always thought that was one of the coolest little details thrown in, and always wondered how they did it as a kid. Lol

This is good stuff. Geordi doesn't get into engineering until later though. Miles has all kinds of re cons...he goes from a low ranking ensign to I think a lt. to a completely non commissioned non enlisting. Just weird...but good show.

Dress shoes can be comfortable. I wore dress shoes every day for years.

Why would McCoy interact with Data? Simple- there are no green blooded Vulcans to make fun of lol

i really enjoy the direction you guys went with this. maybe have a screen showing screenshots of specific visuals youre talking about

thanks algorithm. I need something longform to keep me entertained on my second monitor during my cozy games time. Got me some catching up to do.

Gene was still pissed about bot getting alot of the ship set built in TOS. So I in the first episode of TNG Picard walks through the whole ship so they had to build the sets and I think the saucer section scene was shoehorned in for similar reasons.

TNG is apparently two days older than I am.

Rickie does do that with a manual joystick in the insurrection movie

Awesome. Something to listen to in work for weeks to come

How am I over half a year late discovering this? This is my kind of podcast. Edit: I set my fasor to 1987 and it shot out cocaine. How did I never know this was an option before?

The explanation for McCoy turninng into Colonel Sanders is simple. He got old and stopped caring. That seems to happen to everyone who makes it past a certain point in life.

You guys are all a great team.

The Picard attitude is a military thing. Start hard in a new command. Then you can ease up.

Enjoyed this. Subscribed and will listen to the rest

McCoy showed up on the Enterprise to sign off on Sickbay systems and he was on his way off the ship when we caught up with him.

I've caught a few episodes of this podcast and love them, now I'm gonna watch the whole thing from the beginning cause it's so damn good! Also I can't be eating while watching this cause I laugh so much!!!

i think id start to lean more into my southern accent when i get older and grumpier

I can't wait until you start DS9. It's peak Star Trek imho

Strong disagree about wesley in this episode. Picard completely overreacted on the bridge. Wesley remained on the turbo lift, quietly. He only left when picard invited him on to the bridge, stayed far away from the consoles until picard invited him to have a look. All that happened was an alert came in whilst he was sat in the chair. He had no control over that. If wesley had've been an adult and behaved in that way nobodu would say anything bad. Picard yelling would be unreasonable He also didnt have the attitude of "I know this already why sre you telling me" he was excited to see what picsrd was showing him When he comes out of the holodeck wet he immediately offers to go get a mop to clean up his mess without being prompted He's just a normal aurisic teenager

We need more Groppler Zorn 😊

I think I just stumbled across the OSW review of star trek ..... and I love it!

❤ Fun! Just added y'all on Spotify!

Leonard Murray Maizlish, Gene's lawyer was deeply involved in TNG, at least the start.

Mwahaha, found myself a new podcast to listen to! 😈

I love the Florida man concept

Data graduated in '78 but it's '64 when the season ends

arent the klingon a bit like the saiyans from dragonball, like some other race used them as fighters and showed them space travel

Finally I can attach faces to these voices

Ive never watched star trek, no idea about it, i love this video

I went to basic training in May of 1987. I was 16

Is it strange that Riker says Good morning when he is leaving? I feel like you wouldn't say that now

57:47 >tumblr Explains a lot

This is a great format for a podcast! Love it. Question, do you use AI for the face animations? You must do right otherwise it must take forever to animate

Epic epic epic!!

At least once.... Rookie numbers 😂🤣😂

Wooo! Like this format a lot! Keep it up

Are all of them going on YT??

I have to say, Ricardo looks like he constantly has his hands on his dong and shaking it as he's talking :D

Isn’t McCoy is from Tennessee in the original series

I love this podcast! ❤