Star Trek: TNG Review - 5x8 Unification II | Reverse Angle
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- Spock's plans for reunification are met with Romulan interference.
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Piller, Michael. “Unification II.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry, Season 5, Episode 8, Paramount Television, CBS, 1991. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
BTW there was a blooper in this episode when it originally aired.
When Picard, Data, and Spock leave Sela's office the reflection of a film crewmember's face was briefly visible in the crystal ornament thingy. It was later edited out. I never caught this but my friend said he did.
Reminds me of the Empire Strikes Back blooper when we saw the camera guy's reflection in C-3PO's head while filming the trash incinerator scene on Cloud City.
I recently started to binge your videos and I love them.
5:17 They create _accurate_ holograms of *Riker* and some other crewmen..
I love Sela as a potentially complex and conflicted character (and opportunity for Denise Crosby to come back and make some money), but she always seemed to be written to make cartoon villain mistakes. I wish she could have had more truly ruthless moments that were thwarted due to bad luck instead of her being out-played, or been more openly curious about her human heritage and these exact same people her mother told her stories of as a child.
Imagine the difference in this episode if instead of Sela trying to capture Picard, Spock and Data, she'd been secretly colluding for personal power and as a way to break the system set against her (as a half-Romulan in a highly xenophobic fascist state). Would Spock have been willing to work with her knowing she was using his efforts to further her own agenda? Would he have suspected a Tal Shiar plot (maybe one neither were aware of)? Could have been super interesting to think about.
One failure of this story was that there was no chemistry or connection between Spock and Picard. It was more entertaining to see Spock and Data together. Another flaw was Data being able to learn the Vulcan nerve pinch, which as I recall, he never used again.
From everything I've read/heard, I think the chemistry was supposed to be between Spock and Data, not Spock and Picard.
@@user-do2ev2hr7h I wonder why I thought otherwise. I will have to do some research on this.
He used it in Nemesis which I was just watching on Sky
@@ChuckAtComicList I had always heard that one of the ideas behind this episode (besides promoting Star Trek VI) was to get Data and Spock together as the producers saw data as "the Spock of TNG".
This is a good, albeit bland, episode. What would’ve made it better would be to see some varying opinions in the Romulan Senate, much like Admiral Jarok in “The Defector”.
A more formal, friendly relationship with the Vulcans would provide value to the Romulans. The whole invasion (especially with only 3 ships) doesn’t make any sense.
A lot of fans do rate this episode higher than perhaps it deserves ok it’s merits but….
It’s nice (and rare) to have a Star Trek part 2/3 be better than part 1.
Spock has been in a lot worse post TOS trek (looking at you JJ)
7:55 You'd think so, but in Balance of Terror, Spock himself failed to recognize that the Romulan captain was his dad.
Spock’s speech at the end was great!
I enjoyed Unification despite some silliness like Sela leaving Picard, Spock, and Data alone in her office! That'd be like President Biden stepping out for a press conference and leaving President Putin and his top officials alone in the Oval Office.
Loved the humor: Stephen Root as the Klingon poking fun at Data's disguise, and Data's dry humor with Sela lol. Plus Klingon opera!
Awesome seeing Leonard Nimoy as Spock again! The theme of unification seemed relevant at the time, with East and West Germany's reunification and hopes of Russia rejoining the community of nations as a friend rather than foe (well that didn't happen, alas).
Hmm don't know if I'd want to mind meld with my father (or anyone else for that matter). Would you want to know your dad's most private feelings and thoughts? Maybe after some "deleting to the trash" of the really weird & intimate stuff. :-)
Remember that scene in Stat Trek VI when Spock forcibly mind melds with the Kim Cattrall's character? Boy that was weird - kind of like a mind rape.
Yeah, good commentary on leaving them in the Romulan "office". It's like a policeman leaving a mass murder uncuffed in their blinds closed office to step out for a bathroom break. What was that all about? I think they got sloppy there.
the ORANGE CLOWN
had
2 RUSSIAN SPIES
&
the SAUDI PRINCE
in the WHITE HOUSE
you mean like
ORANGE CLOWN
having
2 RUSSIAN SPIES
LEV PARNAS
&
MARIA BUTINA
in the OVAL OFFICE
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5:58 Subcommander : Commander, standing by for emergency beam out of our invasion troops.
Commander : Carryon.
Subcommander : Sprssshhhkapoof!!! 💥 …..crap! wrong button.
My theory stands : the shorter the video, the better you guys liked the video, haha. I totally agree with your points. It s a solid episode. The first part was so flaky but this was great. Leonard Nimoy is the only actor to match Patrick Stewart so far in this series.
why did the romulan ship destroy those 3 ships?
Because the Enterprise caught up to them and inside was a Romulan invasion force that was about to invade Vulcan which is a member of the Federation. Had this been confirmed a potential fullscale war could have broken out between the Romulans and the Federation. So to remove all evidence they just destroyed the three transports.
@@frasermanley9903 but wouldn't a full-scale war have broken out if the the fleet had made it to Vulcan and invaded? or were they hoping for a silent coup?
either way, sucks to be a Romulan soldier. Although I suppose we do the same thing to our Black Ops soldiers.
Also
How was 4 ships and 2000 soldiers gonna take over a planet (Vulcan) ? 😂
@@Mehwhatevr well I guess had they succeeded, they would have attempted to forcefully coerce the leaders into making public statements of reunification like they tried to do with Spock. Probably issuing a departure from the federation at the same time.
FUN FACT
SELA
was supposed to be in
STAR TREK : NEMESIS
but was replaced by
DONATRA
My favorite part was the Riker hologram hair. I remember being very confused for those few seconds cuz Riker always has such great hair lol. It was silly that they were worried about Picard being recognized but not Spock, of all people. Also, I enjoyed the Star Trek "Cantina" scenes even though they were kitschy.
Pardek was a true Romulan patriot.
Thank you. ♥
An A-? Although I liked the episode the Riker side-bar was uncomfortable. B- for me. Live long and prosper!
Peace and long life
Spock is like Jim
This is an episode that did the Romulans dirty, in the way that early TNG's humans were arrogant to every group of aliens they came across. In fact, it's probably more outspoken about it than any of those episodes, it's just not as obvious to human viewers because it's not humans themselves doing it.
It's a very strange sort of chauvinism because it's not even coming from a human perspective. It almost comes off like an in-universe Vulcan propaganda piece. This is the first (and most extensive) time we see what Romulus is actually like, and the only thing the writers have to say is that Romulus is a totalitarian police state keeping out the enlightened Vulcan texts.
The whole premise of reunification of Vulcan and Romulus is predicated on the notion that Romulans are backwards, and "progress" for them is to accept Vulcan philosophy. Reunification itself comes off like a euphemism, because at no point is it even suggested that Vulcans can learn anything from Romulans, only that Romulans *must* and *will* become more like Vulcans, and that is righteous progress.
It's ridiculous because the Romulans clearly aren't backward savages. They built an empire capable of standing toe-to-toe with the entire Federation, which the Vulcans are only a small part of, and they did it without emotionally crippling themselves. Surely they have something useful to contribute. But we don't see what that is, and as it turned out, we never would.
Great episode, but the ending was rather rushed. When Picard mind-melded with Spock, it would have been nice for them to elaborate on that a lot more.
I’ve been binging this series, (same with Stargate Atlantis), also I’m pretty sure that the bar is a redress of the Observation Lounge
Because you guys only focus on negatives, and whatever you think is "stoopid," I'm not surprised that you didn't know that Leonard Nimoy did this gig for free as a way of helping to promote Star Trek VI.
Hey 4 arms and a face lady. I like to imagine she’s like a super Star Trek fan and that was the biggest thing in her life.
The Romulan version of Tasha looks so goofy I couldn't tank It. I laugh like a idiot.
This was a messy episode that gets way too much love simply because Spock is here. The first part was actually better…Sela was a villain with big potential who was easily duped and never seen again…
Why did the message go to Beverly.
This is more of that symptom of feminist pressure reeking havoc on the set.
Are these two paid by Kurtzman to bash real Star Trek? Who are these guys?
Having rewatched this two-parter just yesterday, I find that its not as good as I remembered. Still a good watch elevated by Leonard Nimoy's presence but the depiction of the romulans is kinda poor. Also, the invasion plot was utterly ridiculous and stupid. How can you conquer a planet with 2000 soldiers, lol. They also wasted Sela's character by turning her into a cartoon villain, never to be seen again after this. And I'm saying all this as someone who mostly disagrees with your scoring and nitpicking and watching just for your humor.
why even use this plot`? with having cloaking tech? and 3 ships of soldiers are enough to take over a planet ?! just fly with 3 warbirds to vulcan and take it!
wtf?