Star Trek: TNG Review - 5x9 A Matter of Time | Reverse Angle
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- A time traveler turns the annoying dial all the way to the Max.
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Sources:
Berman, Rick. “A Matter of Time.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry, Season 5, Episode 9, Paramount Television, CBS, 1991.
Max Headroom created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I still, to this very day, feel bad for the original time traveler.
8:22 If Worf left the Federation would have fallen to the Dominion.
But in the 27 century a time travelling klingon brings down the whole Dominion...
@@MLBeaton That would be epic.
Speaking of pads. I remember saying to my Dad that the pads they used on TNG were far fetched. Why wouldn't you just write things on paper... I watched this on and am commenting on my tablet. Well, I was wrong.
I had a similar conversation with my mom around 1988. Mom had just got an Internet account, after I had had one for a few years (I was a programmer). Mom said that people in the future would be sending each other email messages, buying stuff online, and gathering together to discuss their interests in groups. I said that was all nonsense because the Internet was too slow, too complicated, and regular people would never understand it. OOPS!!
Consider that the crew were always on to him.
This Rasmussen guy actually thinks he can sleight-of-hand a tricorder from Data.
Data has superior visual acuity. He absolutely knew.
They also set traps to test him.
The wisest wise man plays a fool
Good point, they let him roam free but they weren't totally oblivious.
I think "too close to be a coincidence" means the disturbance was targeted at the Enterprise specifically as opposed to appearing at a random point in space.
7:04 wtf guys. Left Side.
He stole one of GEORDIS VISORS.
It would have been funny if they had LaForge showing up to the cargo bay late, grabbing walls and stumbling around in the background but no one saying anything about it.
I had to rewind cuz I missed that previously. That's a pretty major thing to steal and think it won't get noticed.
They had to use what was in the props room.
I quite enjoy rewatching this episode, yes, the time traveller is annoying as hell but that's just part of his character, do we always have to have likeable side characters? Of course not:) To me this episode features an original time travel story plus an interesting dilemma about the mess the Enterprise made on the planet, I would give this one a solid B!
Stealing from Data's room with Data present was the dumbest move ever. Data has a photographic memory and would instantly notice something missing, recall the last time he saw it and know exactly who stole it. Fortunately for Max, the writers were even dumber! 🤣
@07:02 OMG, he managed to steal La Forge's visor??!! Geordie has more than one visor??!! How did Geordie NOT notice _one of his visors missing??_
Geordi probably has 20 visors. They're not even different colors. Why would he notice right away?
Geordi deciding to stay on the planet lessened the stakes and made it less dramatic. Because I can't imagine anyone being under the illusion the writers would kill off Geordi in this random episode, but I can easily imagine them killing off a bunch of nameless extras and millions of people we never see if the plot called for it.
Funny how fiction works that way.
Interesting how they took a young Christopher Lloyd doppelganger to play the key character in the time travel episode.
My whole childhood I was plagued with wondering who max headroom was (we had a cup with his face)... Thank you for filling in the blank... I regret ever wondering!
Wrong franchise for right-wingers.
@@PR--un4ub Dude Im Canadian.... The hat is a troll... Trump did some good (Epstiens mistress/pimp was just convicted) and some Bad (do you need examples?)
Wrong Franchise to be instantly focused on PAST politics... how very 21st Century human of you!
And I forgot Bush is a shape shifting Dominion lizard who set-up wolf359...
I recall they wrote this for Robin Williams, who was sadly unavailable. That would have been fun to see.
Ah, that explains why the episode was decidedly off.
Thought it could be for Jim Carrey.
Good morning! I will finish the video after I've slept, but so rare is the opportunity to be the first one to comment!
You know, this was one of the earliest mentions of a 'temporal prime directive' albeit not in those words.
Time travelers are almost exclusively a pain in the ass. Right up there with Q appearances.
Therefore, I'd wager there might be a captain's eyes and above only dossier on these sorts of encounters. We know from Voyager that things like a Q-file and the Omega directive exist.
Even if someone claiming to be Starfleet from the future, says don't put this in your logs, don't tell anyone we were here... don't they kind of have to anyway just in case its a broader deception or other ships are encountering the same thing? If nobody talks about it... time travelers could exploit them again and again.
What would Janeway do? =P
He was like a Jim Carrey type lol
This episode makes me think of Senior Trip with Matt Frewer vs. the Star Trek crossing guard.
The time travelling Word spinoff would have been a great show.
oh shit max head room, that's who that guy is. I knew he seemed familiar
I did wonder why they had no qualms about stranding him in time. I get that he could cause chaos, but they just left him to be studied by scientists for the rest of his life. He was a con man, not a murderer as far as I recall.
That was quite a punishment😅 but maybe he did deserve it since he essentially ruined the life of the original time traveler by leaving him somewhere
The tone of the episode changed to a grim one for me once the ship disappeared. It's kind of sad to think that he's stuck in a future time, never able to go back to where he came from.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the ... ahem ... time?
I have the only known (and still functioning) "Space GameBoy." True story!
It's so strange that TNG posits a universe where they have computers that can do a bazillion operations per second ... yet, they have repeatedly claimed that meathumans can adjust things faster and more reliably than the computer can. That wasn't the case even in the '90s, when the series was made.
For the climate control issue, it occurred to me they could vaporize large quantities of water to simulate cloud formation and force the dust to fall with the rain, rather than using the CO2 pockets. Water vapor carries the highest potential for greenhouse effect, and CO2 is the indicator for our earth for balance.
Force clouds to form, dust falls in rain, skies clear, return planet to base course
Loved you calling the Padd a 'Space GameBoy'. That cracked me up more than it should... 😂
This episode was pretty interesting to me, even though the "professor" was irritating. I love how you kept referring to him as Max. Of course Beverly would be attracted to him. She's almost as bad as Geordi in the mate selection realm. I thought Picard's prime time directive speech was cool--to bad it was wasted on a total fraud. Why weren't they more curious about the original time traveling professor and his ship???
The first clue he's lying: he says "Everyone knows Old Seventeen 01-D"
Everyone knows It's "One Seven 01-D"
Thankyou for saving me 30 minutes and adding laughs
This episode is the inspiration for the creation of mp3.
this character was
supposed to show up on
ENTERPRISE
I remember Matt Frewer from the made for TV Generation X movie
Yeah, not the most entertaining episode, but it was an interesting plot diversion (I gave it a C for the different plot-would never intentionally watch this again). If the time traveler writer(s)/director could have tamed down the Max Headroom character and provided a little less expectant and arrogance (not sure this is the right word here), then it would have been perhaps a more palatable episode.
Lol I grew up in the late 90s so Matt Frewer will always be the trash can man from the stand to me and lawnmower man 2 😂
I hope you enjoyed the ride. These moments are still exciting despite knowing the result. Nick and Robert's review of fiction.
Matt Frewer is cool. Nice episode!
I enjoyed this episode, it is fun
This is more of a C+ episode. It's silly and stupid all at the same time. I don't discredit their technobabble so much so that would improve my ranking.
I liked this episode. D and D+? That’s disappointing. I really enjoyed the time traveler character. Matt Frewer was charming. And annoying. He was….. charmoying. Can I invent that word?
As much as Disaster sucked from a logical standpoint, I preferred watching that one over this, I think that they should've switched titles too...
I got a commercial. I hope that means you guys are monetized now
Fun
Now that I have gotten this far I am certain they are just trolling RLM fans. The whole 'o's' pronunciation throughout gives it away. They totally stole the pronunciation of "ghosts" "jokes" etc from RLM. Anyone else notice EVERY ep Rich and Mike liked they hate and vice versa.
I thought the episode was interesting and taking things from the ship to act like he invented them was a nice idea for a time traveling villain. I'd give this episode a B.