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A Look at Unnatural Selection (TNG)
Opinionated Next Gen Episode Guide visits season 2, where the threat is being aged to death. Which accurately describes how watching season 2 often feels.
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A Look at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (3 of 3)
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Squirrels, teleportation, and Saruman's Tardis close out this film.
A Look at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2 of 3)
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Part 2, where I give the "Charlie" in the title an entirely different meaning.
A Look at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1 of 3)
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SF Debris' tongue-in-cheek look at the film. Part 1, when my crotchety old man voice really gets a workout.
A Look at Full Metal Panic Episode 4
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Things get serious as the plane the class is on gets forcibly landed in enemy territory, forcing our hero to choose between duty and his heart. Awwww…
A Look at Full Metal Panic Episode 3
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The mission to protect the target continues to go swimmingly as he appears to be caught red-handed stealing her underwear.
A Look at Full Metal Panic Episode 2
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Our hero continues to protect his target by tackling her to the ground and grabbing her breast..
A Look at Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (3 of 3)
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The conclusion as kids start dropping like flies from their own stupidity.
A Look at Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2 of 3)
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We enter the factory, and Chuck talks about making chocolate and why he cries at Jeff the Baby Landshark.
A Look at Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1 of 3)
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A look at the classic film that shows happen when kids decide to ignore an insane genius in his own factory. The results aren't pretty.
A Look at Light in the Dark (Korra Season 2 Ep 14)
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Korra defeats the villain and stops his evil plan, and by 'stop'. I of course mean 'carry out.'
A Look at Darkness Falls (Korra S2E13)
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Tenzin and company have a less than wonderful time in the spirit world. Sure will be great to get back home and never have to deal with spirits ever again!
A Look at Harmonic Convergence (Korra S2E12)
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Season 2 draws to a close as Korra must prevent the release of the ancient enemy during harmomic convergence. Hopefully the Avatar didn't start by screwing up and end by screwing up.
A Look at Chain of Command (TNG)
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Opinionated Next Gen Episode Guide kicks off its look at this classic two-parter. Picard is fired so he can run through caves to defend the Federation, and Riker is refused promotion because Starfleet's run by dicks, so he gets stuck answering to a guy, shockingly, he seems to resent.
A Look at Secret Invasion (Comic Event) Part 8
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A Look at Secret Invasion (Comic Event) Part 8
A Look at Broken Link (Deep Space Nine)
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A Look at Broken Link (Deep Space Nine)
A Look at Business As Usual (Deep Space Nine)
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A Look at Business As Usual (Deep Space Nine)
A Look at Kayshon, His Eyes Open (Lower Decks)
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A Look at Kayshon, His Eyes Open (Lower Decks)
A Look at The Paragon of Animals (Babylon 5)
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A Look at The Paragon of Animals (Babylon 5)
A Look at Move Along Home (Deep Space Nine)
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A Look at Move Along Home (Deep Space Nine)
"It's impossible for him to get sick" Um, I know it's been a while, and I don't care to actively delve into it, but didn't Data get a case of the infectious loopies in season 1!?
It could have been worse, Chuck...it could have been Neelix coming through the ceiling of your house.
The transporter thing is nice for the "useful, therefore forgotten" filing cabinet, but the remote access to check the ship's interior cameras is also a notable entry in this episode's folder.
I'm sad you didn't like ST:V. It was my fave series, with TNG, and DS9, and TOS (whatever order).
Fairly typical of the first two seasons, concentrating on routine adventures of the week rather than character development. Fortunately, this changed from Season 3 onward. Interesting trivia: the genetically created "children" were going to be nude until someone realized that all of the furniture in their little rec room was transparent. The costume department came to the rescue with those garish bright multi-colored neon jumpsuits that'll drive you blind if you look at them for more than a few seconds. It was the 80s, after all. 🖖🙄
I've seen a lot of comments this has Starfleet create immortality with the transporter here, but this actually was previously seen in TAS's The Lorelei Signal, and the animated series got a novelization IIRC, that stated that there was a downside in that all memories from the previous transport are lost.
Why didn't they attempt the "cure" on the scientists from the research station? Surely some of them had transporter logs
The Gorgon was creepy enough, but her rapidly aging? ... Eeeewwwweee!
Chuck, I appreciate your humour usually, but could you at least have mentioned that you re-edited the Harry nightmare scene instead of pretending he really was scared because Seven kissed him? Folks who don't remember it that well, or have only seen this, are gonna assume that really is what made him scream.
Impossible for data to get sick? Did they forget the naked now? I mean granted I wish I could but still.
Considering how fast Klingons are shown to reach maturity, it's amusing that Worf is the one to be immediately alarmed at the young-adult 12 year old. Yes that's information from later on but it's still funny.
honestly know I came from the faster better stronger music video with the question what the heck is happening and wanted to know about the anime cause there's got to be a story behind the animation in the music video.
Accelerated aging is the second thing on my list of "great" medical problem in Sci-Fi. No. 1 is people getting transformed into aliens (or salamanders) and easily reversing the condition at the end of the episode. And i will say this: When i saw the first two seasons of TNG as a kid i loved them, thought they were great. It took some mental developement to figure out how shitty the characters, the plots, the decisions were. But even then this episode had something disturbing thanks to the super-children. Maybe it's because i'm German and we learn pretty early on in school about some not so nice parts of our history including the idea of the superior race ... All i'm saying is that they say a bit too often how great these kids are. I think even Pulasky agrees on one point that they are superior and the future. My headcanon is that these ideas of superiority lead to the kids trying to take over the Federation like Khan did on Earth and that's why we got the extra hard laws about genetic tampering. But because nobody in the Federation wants to admit they allowed these experiments, they only talk about Khan ...
10:05 Good lord the dissembling is criminal!
4:23 The second best shot in the movie.
8:09 There it is. The best frame in the entire movie. Proud crazy mom.
everyone worf loves dies.......that is why Alexander still alive
I always liked Pulaski. I related to her never being able to fit in, but also being unable to be anything other than herself. It’s always been weird to me, how much people didn’t like her as a character. I missed her when she dipped. (Edit bc I mixed her name up with a Hair character)
Part of it is she makes a terrible first impression in ‘The Child’, flouting protocol, ignoring the Captain, and bullying Data. As it goes on she tones down, but never quite treats her CO with the respect he deserves. Between that and the difficulty of getting past the way she originally treated Data, who can’t really fight back, it left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths. She might’ve gotten better had she stuck around for Season 3, but the actress didn’t want to come back and the cast lobbied hard for Gates McFadden to return.
We need more telekinetic augmented human characters in staetrek.
I hope you pick this back up one day
taken out of gis original package losses at least 10percent of original value
Soooooo.... by the logic of this episode, the Transporter can let people Save Scum?
So, Chuck finally gets to an episode focused on the Gorgon. This had to be torturous for him.
Always thought it was funny that picard had to use his code in his ready room. Bruh everyone knows most of his codes cus he says them out loud around people
Hooray, brand new trek and not a reupload, and it's TNG.
Like Chuck once said, the first two seasons of TNG seem to have an infinite number of episodes, so he can go on forever. Ok, he said season one, but that applies to season two too.
When another character is the Most Annoying Character in a Pulaski-centric episode, I'm forced to question my life.
They put a lot of work into creating a character that's more annoying.
The older I get, the more I relate to Grampa George.
I think a rating of 3 is too high for this episode.
Burn baby burn Lantree... Poor little plot device, you looked so cool
Especially stupid when we have later on things like the Baryon sweep in Starship Mine, that could destroy all living matter. And you want to tell me they have no way of cleaning the ship? Suck all the air out first, then hard radiation? If it happened out of respect for the dead crew that would have been something - but simply because it's too dangerous is the dumbest idea. But who cares about a class 6-supply ship. We got the U.S.S. Bozeman later on coming from the past, they can take over that job.
Oh, it's a Pulaski episode. I'm so sorry, Chuck.
This really shows how the whole genetic augmentation is banned thing didn’t exist until DS9.
I suspect Mrs. Winters of the murder!
The TNG episode that tried to be The Deadly Years but became an episode about Augments before they were even a thing.
Maybe they could have combined the titles "The Deadly Years" and "Space Seed"..."The Deadly Seed" comes to mind.
"... since it's impossible for him (Data) to get sick." I'm very surprised you didn't call out "The Naked Now" as a direct counterpoints to that claim. Also, in the final cure for Pulaski, why didn't they beam her onto an isolated shuttlecraft?
Tasha said "The Naked Now" never happened, and we respect the wishes of the deceased.
This time it wasn't about Data getting drunk like everybody else - just a disease 😁. I would have loved if Data pulled a Naked Now and said that he was constructed to age - so his body would react in the same way to the disease.
@@lordmontymord8701 "I am experiencing rapid aging, Captain. I have thirteen overdue system updates, and am now required to recommend you upgrade to Data 2.0."
Sad to say, but this was the best Pulaski episode by a country mile.
One of good things about this episode is that they confirm that they store teleporter patterns of the people. What explain a lot of bizarre behaviors in the show. Like sending captain in away team. Well... if he die then they load a copy of him. Those who die permanently, aren't just important enough... lol
They did something similar the previous season. "Lonely Among Us," when Picard is taken over by a being and transports himself into the cloud. Then they get his consciousness into the computer. Then they use his pattern when he beamed out to reconstitute him, though he did not remember any of it.
The Lower Decks actually kinda pokes fun at this a bit when someone who clearly died comes back and you learn that they go through some weird afterlife ritual trial to resurrect
Well only this episode presents the patterns as something that can be stored. While it makes no sense that they couldn't store this data (unless it's too much for the hard drive), it is understandable from a narrative standpoint that they couldn't simply create a new version of this or that person. It's just funny that we have a lot of episodes like this that break the rules about ST-tech established to make things too easy ...
They'll just file the transporter immortality thing away in the same warehouse as Voyager's warp-10 tech that could have gotten everyone home with no (lasting) side effects, and the Ark of the Covenant.
Amazing two-parter, but the premise of Picard, Crusher and Worf being sent on this particular mission is laughable. Let's just throw away our greatest living captain! And the flagship's doctor too, why not? Worf at least makes some sense. But it leads to the torture scenes, with Patrick Stewart shining like a star - so creatively, it made sense ;) Jellico is a great character but still unlikeable. I can't help but think that his behaviour wasn't always in the best interest of his goals. Nevertheless, he was often in the right, and the crew acted like whiny snowflakes. But it is not just one-sided, which I appreciate. He is not just another crazy admiral or captain, and some of his actions are clearly needed for the mission's success. Gul Madred is a great and very sad character. All in all, this is rightly regarded as one of the best TNG (double) episodes, despite the lacking elements of its premise.
Lol golems.
Dr. House would have had this figured out in five minutes. You invented an airborne immune system in children, force-aged children, and can't piece together why people getting old from an airborne illness might be related to the kids?
LOL, "preview of the next presidential debate" ...
Isn't that so painfully true?
...I kind of hate how this episode not only ignores the whole thing about the Eugenics war and Augment bullshit (even the KIDS Star Trek series brought up the Augment issue) but also ignores how the Transporter is basically a cure all machine for literally anything now. Got a fatal infection? Pop you though and the bad stuff is separated out like a strainer that puts you back together after. Broken Limb? If we have a log from yesterday where you leg was intact that's basically a save state! Tuvixed? Not a problem, we'll just transport clone you and apply the cure to one of the clones in the matter stream so all THREE of you can live! Oh no, he died! Well, call up a log and bring back the version of him from before he left on the mission, shame he won't remember the last few hours but I'm sure he'd be happy to know his family didn't lose him. Seriously why is there even a NEED for medicine in the Star Trek universe if the transporters can do this? The only limit I can think of is the storage space for all the "files" that would be a transport signature for a person, but then you could just have giant hard drives specifically for saving those things in a server room by the computer core.
The augment ban hadn't been invented yet, had it?
The Riker duplicate kind of doubles down on this problem, while also proving people's issues with teleporters killing a person and replacing them with a clone.
I love how Riker outright was cloned with the transporter and the fact that it essentially both creates life and ensures immortality is never even thought of
@@KnightRaymund narrative-wise? maybe not, but them being a problem was established back in TOS and cemented in the first good Trek film
Isn't the same technique used in Picard as well?
This episode is confusingly pointless.
Pulaski was just a worse version of Bones
Worse? They’re nearly identical down to their casual racism. Even still I thought she was the only interesting personality among the main cast. Outside of Worf they all shared the same sensibilities and were never the source of any drama. This was Genes fault since he thought humanity would have evolved to share the same brain in the 24th century.
She was Bones without any thought put to the character.
Dr Pulaski need one season she better doctor data overlook auto place doctor
Did you just have a fucking stroke?
For anyone who has issues with "nu Trek", I only need to point at GODAWFUL episodes like this. Terrible in every way, and this isnt close to the worst of season 2 :P
So you're saying we should be happy to get more like this? That's not a great argument.
@@JosephDavies more like pointing out how at least 50% of trek was already less than stellar; most of Picard is leagues above this shit, for example. even Discovery has much better episodes. so when people complain about how bad some episodes of nu-trek are, i just go 'eh, average trek then!'
@@JosephDavies Absolutely not. My point was that we have gotten so much worse in the past, and people forget how atrocious TNG seasons 1 and 2 were. And honestly, for me, most of Voyager. (my least favorite Trek of all time)
I won’t call this episode good, but I’ll say this: I’d rather watch it than the first season finale of Picard.
@@magnusprime962 Okay thats you. We can agree to disagree but I think Trek is getting better than it has since 1999
So, telepathic, and telekinetic. And we never see them again. Borg would have a field day with proto-Vorlons.
In the books the Dominion experimented with the Betazoids after conquering their planet to produce telepathic Jem'Hadar, an even better living weapon. Imagine they took over this station ...
asides from the canon hiccup with the Aguments this was a good episode personally. just hated the Karen who ran the Aguments
Always wondered why the "children" were called children in this episode when they are clearly not. I'd think with their accelerated aging they'd be adults despite their age a bit like the Clone Troopers of Star Wars. If they are children mentally but adults physically that seems like a MASSIVE design flaw for these perfect humans. Also bet they regret kersploding that ship after the Borg showed up.
It was just a class 6-supply ship ... nobody cares about those and their crews 😁 ... 🤔 then again they still had Oberth-class ships flying in the background in First Contact - i assume the Lantree can't be worse than one of those, so she might have been able to take one shot that would have gone to one of the actual usefull ships.
Why didn’t they transport her (while attempting the filtering) onto another shuttlecraft? They have several, and if anything went wrong, they could just send her down to the planet in the now-infected shuttlecraft. I guess they needed to abandon their previous logic or there would be no drama for the conclusion.
It´s like with the zombie movies, people have to do dumb things to create tnesion