Whoever wrote this has no idea what "breaking the fourth wall" actually means.

I would, personally, make a distinction between an Easter-egg and an outright 4th wall break.

'Fourth wall break...' "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means". ~Inigo Montoya, 'The Princess Bride'. 😉 🖖

The Klingon ridges didn't begin with the Nex Generation (1987). They were first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Nog is not an underrated character. He’s not overrated either. But he is a beloved character by almost all fans or trek. His episode with Vic was amazing.

ah, but in a meta way, "put on a red shirt" was prophetic never the less. RIP Anton Yelchin... a lovely Checkov and an amazing Odd Thomas.

9:58 - Sela was NOT a clone, she was Tasha Yar's daughter.

Surprised Q's "Trek through the stars" line from All Good Things didn't make it in. I mean, he was literally talking about the show ending in the final episode!!!

“In the Pale Moon Light” is definitely a 4th wall break, though done in a very clever way. Sisko is speaking directly to the audience throughout the episode. Brilliantly done!

Quark looks directly in the camera and says Picard’s line from Star Trek First Contact, “The Line must be drawn here, this far and no further.”

I'm thinking TrekCulture has another term to look up. Breaking the Fourth Wall does not mean what you evidently think it means.

You missed one from DS9 (I don't recall which episode) where Quark looks into the camera and says, "War. What's it good for? Absolutely nothing."

I’m amazed that you didn’t include the last scene from “Ship In A Bottle,” where Picard comments about Barclay’s miniature holodeck: Barclay: “As far as Moriarty and the countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime." Picard: “They will live their lives and never know any difference." Trio: “In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted." Picard: “In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table." (all leave, except Barclay, who apprehensively tests his environment...) Barclay: “Computer, end program." (Nothing happens, and Barclay smiles) Show ends.

I don't think you know what "break the fourth wall" means...

I had heard about Denice Crosby waiving to the camera, but never caught it in the show. Thanks for including it.

hmm.... somehow I doubt that you can call an "Easteregg" which the USS Nog and the "I am a Doctor" quote are a 4th wall break...

You missed a big one, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" when threatened will jail for 200 years Kirk looks at the camera says something like "That's just about right".

On DS9 when Bashir teleports Keiko's fetus into Kira. The pregnant Kira says to Bashir "You did this to me." Which was a wink to their real life marriage and that Siddig was the one who got Visitor pregnant

In STAR TREK 4 THE VOYAGE HOME Dr. McCoy said to the newly resurrected Spock "You really HAVE gone where no man has gone before" (meaning died and came back to life). That line "where no man has gone before" is from the NARRATION.

TNG S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: "In a sense, who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs. All this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table."

Do you forget your research? Klingons didnt change for TNG?! Klingons look like this since the motion picture in 1979! Also how can you forget "Ship in the bottle" ?? THE MOMENT when Picard admits "Its all a TV show" well not literally, but you get the idea.

Occasionally you can lean on the fourth wall (where what they are saying can be interpreted as addressing the audience, but also makes sense in the story - for example it will be revealed that the character is looking at a camera). An actor accidentally looking at the camera is not a fourth wall break. Light references to actor names are also not fourth wall breaks. Characters using known catchphrases is also not a fourth wall break. Fully outright breaking the fourth wall completely destroys the story unless it's a comedy. For example, Spaceballs can break the fourth wall all it wants without messing it up, because it's a comedy.

I don't know this video knows what a fourth wall break is vs a reference...

My personal favorite isn't on this list. In TNG's series finale, "All Good Things", Q says to Picard, "It's time to put an end to your TREK through the stars...", but the way he pauses after 'trek' and gives a little half smile as he does so makes it obvious it's intended for the audience.

Zefram Cochran's line was classic

"unnecessarily sexy costumes" does not compute

Funny how Picard's last line in the TNG episode *Ship in a Bottle* is not on this list.

I always thought McCoy was looking at Amanda. It doesn't appear he's looking into the camera.

Ironically, Anton Yelchin was correct… what a sad way to go.

A huge fourth wall break that was overlooked was in the TNG episode "The Game." Picard says, "Go. Replicate what you need, and see that the devices are properly distributed." Then, turning to the camera and staring right at it, he says, "Not forgetting Mr Crusher," and he continues to stare at the camera until the scene ends.

This list is a joke. Meta content ≠ Fourth wall break.

Lower Decks specifically talking about TOS deserves a mention.

Klingons with facial ridges have appeared that way since Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In, First Contact, the doctor said, I'm a doctor, not a door stop.🤣

These are a vast stretch to be called 4th wall breaks. Seems to be confusion about what an Easter Egg is.

10:08 There's another layer to Chekhov seeming reluctant to put on the red shirt. Supposedly, when Walter Koenig was first offered the role, someone said to him "Whatever you do, don't let them put you in a red shirt."

The Nog / Eisenberg Easter Egg is a sweet tribute.

I feel this girl doesn't know the difference between a fourth wall break and a callback.

The wormhole in "The Price" led to the Delta, not Gamma Quadrant. That was how Janeway and Co. ended up finding the two Ferengi who bumbled through to try and foul up the negotiations and got stuck on the other side when the wormhole shifted position.

Kirk never said, “Beam me up, Scotty.” Accuracy is fundamental.

You missed THE MOST OBVIOUS 4th WALL BREAK in Trek history - when told he would be locked up for 200 years by a USAF Colonel in the 1960s, Kirk looks directly at the camera and deadpans "That ought to be just about right." YOU HAD ONE JOB, Trek Culture!!! ;) (Season 1, Episode 19 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", 35 mins, 20 seconds into the episode)

Just a quick correction. The Klingons have had their facial ridges since "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, NOT "The Next Generation" in 1987. Additionally, aside from Denise Crosby's wave goodbye, these are nothing but Easter Eggs.

The "Chekov redshirt" moment became far, far more poignant only a few years later, when Anton Yelchin died, leaving you the reader not knowing whether to laugh or groan at this moment.

The first contact? Breaking the credibility fourth wall there 🤣🤣🤣

Breaking the fourth wall. I don’t think that means what you think it means…

"Beam me up Scotty" was never uttered even once in the original Star Trek.

(watches in shock) "Computer, what is a fourth wall? .... Computer? COMPUTER!!"

A fan tweeted Aaron Eisenberg to ask him if he'd do a cameo as Nog on the Picard series, Aaron said he'd love to. He went to the hospital and died within 24 hours. :'(

Could we get a presenter that's actually watched Trek please?

That wormhole that the Ferengi wanted access to lead to the Delta quadrant, not the Gamma quadrant.

Is Ellie Littlechild's real name Sean Ferrick because that is who is credited for presenting this list? 🤷 UPDATE = The editor and Ms Littlechild responded on Twitter. It was a shortsighted error.

In a semi related way to the #1 entry, Q says something similar to Picard in the TNG series finale saying "your trek through the stars"

Your credits are broken, folks. Writer: Nick Edgeworth, Presenter: Sean Ferrick?

I cant believe I have never noticed Tasha waving at the camera in Symbiosis! One thing does puzzle me though. After the cheeky wave Picard and Crusher get in a turbo lift and call for main bridge, leaving Tash in the cargo room looking quite busy. Moments later when Picard and Crusher walk onto the bridge, Tasha is at her post looking like she was there all the time. How did she get there so fast? Beamed in? Super Duper Turbo Lift?

You somehow included easter eggs, but not the scene where Picard laments that perhaps even he and his crew perhaps exist just inside a box on someone's desk. HOW? (Episode would be "Ship in a Bottle")

Missed a big one. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, there's the scene in the transporter room after the klingon delegation beams back to their ship, the whole bridge crew complains about the experience leaving Spock to stare perplexed into the camera before delivering his iconic raised eyebrow.

I liked the Picardos doctor quips even better than McCoys honestly, basically because since he's a hologram he could practically use anything. I'm a doctor, not a database for instance. The irony being is he usually is the very thing he says he isn't as well to an extent.

When McCoy gets the last word, he’s not looking at the camera, he’s looking and talking to nurse Chappel

You know, Q was actually the first to talk about a "Trek through the stars." And it would make sense that a being as powerful as him, as omniscient as him, could see past the 4th wall to a degree.

The thing about that First Contact line though... everyone laughed at it. I still think it's a genuinely funny line, especially when said by a drunk and clueless Zephram Cochrane. XD

I thought the 1st one about the Ferengi was gonna mention the Marauder Mo action figures in DS9.

You forgot "Ship in a Bottle" from TNG. Picard giving a smile suggesting they too are inside a device on someone's table.

I think you missed one... "What am I? A doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" ...McCoy said that prior to Devil in the Dark in The Corbomite Maneuver.

McCoy's last line in Journey to Babel is my personal favorite!

Just because the actor is looking directly into the camera, it doesn't mean it is a 4th wall break. It is used as a meta comment. The character is making an off-hand comment to him/herself. Not even Sisko's lines. It was expository. He was still making his log recording. Then he deleted the entire thing, ending the episode.

trying to get through this video was exhausting. Keep it simple and quick, please

8:20 I always wondered how the "smooth" faced Klingons didn't recognize that Worf was "normal"

Sorry can I ask why are you shouting through the whole video?

Man, c'mon, those "Kind of Star Trek" quote was brilliant, I always giggle to myself when I remember it and it was a perfect place to quote it

Sisko recording his log and apparently speaking to us, the audience is probably not the intention of the episode. He's recording his video-log just as modern you-tubers would today, so of course he's speaking direct to camera, so intentional, not accidental or unscripted.

The "I'm a doctor" gag isn't as funny without being preceded by, "Dammit Jim..."

"I'm a doctor, not a historian!" - Julian Bashir - The Trouble with Tribbles

How to say you don't understand what the fourth wall is without saying that you don't understand what the fourth wall is...

I propose a "Lower Decks" "MST3K" crossover where they try to rescue a man trapped in space only to be captured themselves and then forced to watch an old Star Trek episode referred to as a historical document.

"...despite his temporary fatality..." 😂

What about Q's comment in All Good Things? 'We're going to put an end to your trek through the stars.' I actually prefer that to the First Contact line. As it is a more natural sentence.

Q's line toward the end of "Deja Q" when he said to Riker, "So stolid, commander. You weren't like this before the beard."

Patrick Stewart is indeed a fine Shakespearean actor, and I have seen the I, Claudius which you nodded to while saying so. However, while Shakespeare himself never leaned too heavily on the fourth wall, theatre actors have done so, from time to time. Even still, we can still take it as Picard rolling his eyes at the universe for putting him in the position to deal with the Ferrengi.

Seeing Patrick Stewart with hair is oddly unsettling.

You should have included Q turning the Voyager into a Christmas Tree ornament. RL trek ship ornaments was an annual tradition at the time

Q also makes reference to ending their trek across the stars. And more recently makes reference to Yesterday’s Enterprise.

I don't know if I'd call most of these "fourth wall breaks." Most of them are more homages than anything else.

In The Pale Moonlight was such a great episode! I never noticed Denise waving in the background of that one episode. Felt really sweet.

Amazingly no 4th wall breaks actually appear on this list

I never noticed the Denise Crosby wave good-bye before.

The closest thing to a fourth wall break in TNG that I remember was "Ship in a Bottle" when Picard does his "Our reality may be very much like theirs, all this might just be an elaborate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table" speech.

I always enjoyed the “Star Trek gag” always made me chuckle

As someone who enjoys bad puns, Cochrane's line got a chuckle and a groan from me.

This isn't breaking the 4th wall. It's mostly Easter Eggs. Picard didn't look at the camera, he turned his head and body in disbelief because he's a Shakespearian actor and he is not afraid to used his whole body to get the point accross.

I never knew about Tasha wave. Nice 😄

what about breathing between sentences?

I just came to the rather devastating realization that there is a major real world coincidence to poor Chekhov donning that red shirt... We did lose him not to long after. R.I.P. Anton Yelchin.

The Klingons have been bumpy headed since the motion picture, not TNG.

You missed one of Doc McCoy's fourth wall breaks. In Star Trek V when Kirk is climbing the mountain, Bones is looking through some treknoculars and directly addresses the camera... "Playing games with life... If I'm not careful I'll end up talking to myself" etc. I don't remember the exact scene but I remember him almost directly addressing the viewers.

~8:50+.... You can tell DC (Yar) sure was enjoying that hug. 😂😂😂

I love how, when mentioning that Patrick Stewart is an accomplished Shakespearean actor, you showed him as Sejanus talking to Tiberius; from, “I, Claudius.” 👍🏽

Finally! You got that my favorite First Contact Cochrane line. Besides the 24th century urinal joke.👍

Trials and Tribble-ations has another one. I think its O Brian and Bashir confuse a character played by Kirks body double for Kirk himself.

TOS, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" Colonel Fellini: "I'm going to lock you up for two hundred years." Captain Kirk: (to camera) "That oughta be just about right."

If you ask me, Patrick Stewart looks like he's looking just past the camera and not directly at it in that first one.