Star Trek: TNG Review - 2x17 Samaritan Snare | Reverse Angle
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- Stupid is as stupid does.
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McCullough, Robert. “Samaritan Snare.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry, Season 2, Episode 17, Paramount Television, CBS, 1989. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I've been trying to signal boost this channel but the subscriber count hasn't gone up much yet. I think we should all mention it on more popular Trek channels. These guys deserve more views.
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Imagine coming back from almost dying and your friends just clap like a plane just landed
🤣 Picard gave our response
"I beg you're parden" that's basically asking forgiveness before you do something stupid in response 😂🤣
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This channel is so underrated. Love the format, love the theme music and love the banter among both of you. Well done guys :)
The Pakled leader is played by Christopher Collins, best known as Starscream and Cobra Commander.
He also played a few Klingons.
He played the Klingon who commanded the ship which Riker served on in A Matter of Honor
That's a really great tidbit of information. Thanks OP!
AKA Chris Latta - also played Sgt. Knox on Star Blazers
What?!
I remember seeing the episode and hoping the doctor who saved Picard's life would be a Beverly Crusher guest shot.
That would have been the way to go alright
LMFAO @ the Riker / Packled officer exchange program hahah
I think the paklids (sp) would become the first UNassimalated species
They can join Pork Rind Heads from Voyager as species not fit for assimilation
Worf is constantly ignored with his suggestions and he is usually correct
LOL Borg assimilating the Pakleds
I actually heard on an interview with Wil Wheaton a few years back that the “door gag” was his idea, and not in the script. Stewart and himself thought it it would be cool to show the younger generation not understanding something like a door you had to pull, since all the doors he had ever seen opened by themselves in his sheltered starfleet upbringing. I thought it was actually a nice touch.
I just saw that interview and was looking for the scene on youtube which brought me to this video
@@TheRubberDuck77right on 🖖🏼
My parent's still say "you're smart, you make us go." to each other when one of them does something stupid.
Haha, needs.
What do they do for a living?
Let me guess, an engineer and a science teacher?
I think this episode and last showed the Captain and First Officer arrogance and underestimations in different areas. Picard overestimated the capabilities of Starfleet and his own with the Borg, while Riker underestimated "simpler" life with the Pakleds. Both got their asses handed to them. Hopefully it is shown as a point of learning. It would have been great to see Riker at least express remorse to La Forge about being really flippant in the use of their chief officer staff. Yes, it was frustrating see them make some really bad calls for the plot, but hey, really smart people make really dumb choices all the time.
Classic Worf shutdowns.
I really enjoy these episode breakdowns... I am only recently getting into Trek, so these videos are awesome for finding episodes to watch!
My 2 cents. Worf gets his ass handed to him regularly. Geordi is the torture specimen. Doesn't he get kidnapped and tortured like 3-4 times between TNG and the movies? WT actual F?
dude you are hilarious. you need more subs.:)
"... and the main doctor talks like a guy in a sci-fi tv-show."
"Imma let that sink in for a sec"
LMAO
4:30 This was actually a joke suggested by Wheaton. He told Stewart that this could be the first time Crusher had encountered a manual door and he may not know how to operate it.
He thought it would be funny for young Mr. Wizards to encounter a bit of old technology he could not instantly instantly work out, and I happen to agree. It was a good joke, and the subtly of it was also good.
My great grandfather was born in the late 1800's He learned, as a child, how to hitch a horse to a wagon. This would be a skill nearly every child of my great grandfather's generation would have learned as soon as the were big enough to carry the tackle. It would most likely be a chore they would perform nearly every day until their own child was big enough to do it. My grandfather was born in 1916, he to learned how to hitch a horse to a wagon, though for him it wasn't an every day chore because but the time my grandfather was big enough to handle the tackle, this skill was no longer needed. Not every day at least.
By 1944, when my father was born it was already becoming a rare skill, but my great grandfather taught my father to do it.
I was born in 1969 and have never even looked closely at the tackle used to hitch a horse to a wagon. If I was zapped back in time to the mid 19th Century and asked to connect a horse to a wagon, I would be like Wesley here, at a complete loss on even the first step.
This would be a skill everyone would have had from early childhood. In fact, I'm not even sure how to drive a team of horses.
I could get my revenge though. Anyone who laughs at me for my stupidity would come back to the future and I'd stick them in a car and terrify them driving at 30 MPH down the road.
Worf in omniman pose: THINK PEOPLE, THINK!
We look for things to make us go.
1:04 I love that you guys mention how they take up the whole hallway.
They do have some egos, don't they?
Worf does his job as security chief, pointing about the massive security issues, and they dismiss him. I was hoping Worf would say something like, "SuHaghqa' P'takhs!"
I found this channel after watching a clip from the "we are smart" conversation. Quality commentary, excellent accents on the two of you (upper midwest??). Now I need to find episode one and start the binge! Subbed for sure.
Did anyone mention that Gomez was supposed to be a love interest for Geordi, but the actor came with playing her first episode as sorta a one off and the writers didn't like where she was going, so they abandon the story?
That surgery scene is just like a parody of such a sci-fi scene.
I wish the Borg assimilated the pack LEDs, and then everything on the Borg cube fell apart. The Borg would eventually shoot themselves in the head because the pack LEDs have them de-evolving.
Who else was thinking Mel Gibson from “Ransom” needs to negotiate on Riker’s behalf?
The vertical eyebrows is an interesting design.
As soon as they said, "We look for things that make us go." I wanted to say, "Don't make them go." or at least fix their ship, then say you need something off your ship, then instruct them how to reactivate their own ship.
You know the walking down the hall side-by-side really is a dominance thing that gives you an idea of the actual class structure taking place on the Enterprise.
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Nice editing.
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Well put together! Best one so far
So yeah the paklids actually become literally cartton villans in the show lower decks. Like if I had not seen this episode I would have no problem believing paklids were created specifically for the show Lower decks because they fit the tone of that show so perfectly lol.
3:28 With the exception of Worf and Troi. 🤨
C- is where i draw the line, here and no further!
Yeah, I'd say this is a B+ or A - for me.
How about you?
I'm binge-watching all your TNG video reviews and enjoying them all including your comments and hilarious jokes & chuckles. Your laughs are contagious and make me laugh every time! 😂 I normally don't comment but had to for this one. I hate the Pakled species SO much! The word "hate" doesn't even describe it. Does this make me a selective ST racist? Maybe so. How in holy hell did they evolve to be a space-faring species--is beyond me...just boggles the mind! The worst & most infuriatingly irritating species ever created in ST history, in my opinion. They're just too stupid to live. They can't wipe their asses without looking up the instructions or mooching off toilet from another species. Just hearing that "caveman slow talk" makes me want to throat-punch someone. They're one chromosome away from being a doorstop. Thank you very much for all your time and efforts for reviewing my #1 favourite ST series. All my best. Todd from Canada.
Hey, Todd from Canada, Rene from Quebec, here.
Just as there are bright suns and dim suns in the universe, there are smart and dumb people too. This is a fact of life best assimilated before you get a Pakled boss like I did.
Talk about letting the blind lead the sighted...
So Bob and Dick....
Who's next? Drew P. Wiener?
You guys just got a sub. XD
Ha, hadn't heard that one before.
My problem with this episode is not that the Enterprise wanted to help the Pakleds. I don't get how the Pakleds ever made it to space faring stage in the first place. How did they get that far, if they weren't smart enough to fix their own ship? How'd they achieve "sub-light" travel? There's a reason why the Federation has The Prime Directive. They don't teach ignorant species how to make things go. Did some other alien civilization boost the Pakleds in exchange for something, and then left them to fend for themselves? I don't recall the Pakleds in any other episode. They showed up once and were never seen again. There is a story there, but I guess it's not worth exploring, because chances are if writers attempted to explain how the Pakleds evolved to space travel, the idea of it would unravel under scrutiny.
they are smart. they have things. things that make them go
I knew there was a reason Worf is one of the best characters.
Does anybody else have a hard time believing that the Pakleds would be able to strong arm the Romulans or Klingons with their stupid ruse LOL
The kilingons tricked a paklid commander to come on to thier ship by saying come aboard our ship and explain why you don't want to come onto our ship lol
@@thewewguy8t88was that on Lower Decks?
@@Freakazoid12345it was Gowron who did that on DS9. It was absolutely hilarious, especially when he looks right at the camera. Sorry I don't recall the episode name of the top of my head but it should be easy to find
@daviddiggens8841 TNG is the only Star Trek show I could ever really get into but I like the General Grin/nit picking nerd edits.
We like opposite parts of the episode, I had no interest and the Wesley and Picard stuff in the shuttle or any of his medical problems, I was interested in what was happening on both of the ships and I have known people who are like that and there are a pacoled episode and lower decks so this one is becoming more interesting
I have to be honest I only watched this video to find out why the thumbnail had the characters wearing surgical masks, and I still don't know.
The review was pretty interesting. I'd actually liked to have seen more Pakleds villainy, if only for comic relief.
Have you watched the show Lower decks.
Why does the shuttle look like its just sitting in space not even moving?
Bowzer's reaction pit brought me here. the guy on the left said to check out this channel if we were stark trek geeks like he was. and i'm just kinda like a packled, so i do what i'm told by smart people
What a star contrast to Stark Track geeks.
those reverse covid surgical outfits
Great job guys
These guys had eyebrows bigger than mine
You're right, the main surgeon sounded like generic sci-fi guy saying fake words lol
EVERYTHINGS STUPID Ill give it a C- "WHAT!!!!"
why did they applause when Picard returnede to the Bridge?
cause they missed him
I agree with your grades, but I still enjoyed it...mindless entertainment
What they didn't tell us is that the Pakled Commander was Cobra Commander's greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandson.
Pakled are fun to listen to. Gotta give them points for that.
At most, they should've just offered to give the Pakleds a tow to the nearest repair station. Beaming their chief engineer over was a dumb thing to do.
Riker is jaw-droppingly incompetent here.
I don't think there's anything to worry aboutl 😆
You are smart!
It's an Awesome episode. You're trippin. I've watched clips so many times
The writers just wanted to make it go.
I like to believe that terrorists broke into the TNG writers' room and held them at gun point. This episode's script was therefore a covert message from the writers that they were in deep trouble. It's the only rational explanation for how utterly misguided this story is.
This episode made me hate the Pakled race, Worf was right and should have been sent on a rescue mission with a 6 man crew phasers highest setting. Riker should have told them "Just know, if you kill Geordi then every one of you dies next."
You should have more views
We need sharper focus on ... the colors!
C- I agree with Robert
It's a D episode. Spot on. Packlids and this plot in general are stupid. They should rename this episode "Stupid Squared".
Hands down, this is E material.
Ah the USS Isuzu giving if you buy a Isuzu car it's has problematic issue right of the bat
I hate you guys so much. But you’re also hilarious so I can’t stop watching.
lol you're arguing over half a grade. I agree though this is a D episode.
You missed mentioning the completely bigoted arsehole statements such as
"GEORDI
: Let me guess: their rubber band broke, right?" immediately after entering the bridge
Or this gem
"DATA: They are a relatively benign species.
RIKER
: Don't they seem a little... slow?
DATA
: They may merely have poorly-developed language skills." Once again having Data be the most human member on the bridge
You guys really like Gomez huh? I thought she was annoying AF
But she was cute.
this and shades of gray are probably my least favorite this season, it’s a toss-up
This is one of the few episodes of TNG that I truly don't enjoy.