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First Time Watching ALL of Star Trek - Episode 148: Samaritan Snare (TNG S2E17)
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The Target Audience are watching Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time! Today we watch season 2 episode 17 - Samaritan Snare
Never mind the Borg, this is the species intro we've been waiting for 🧠🧠
I was waiting and hoping nobody would compare the two, LOL!
🤣
No joke I actually DO enjoy the Pakleds
Is that a Futurama reference? 😅
Clearly these Pakleds only lost because they weren't wearing a big enough hat.
It would have been cooler if Picard woke up and it was the Pakled medical officer saying "We are Pakleds, we make your heart go."
I love that this episode reveals that Picard, NOT Kirk, is the captain who spent his academy days just fucking around and getting into bar fights.
It's a funny contrast, Kirk was actually super serious and driven, known as a bookworm, and taught at the academy for a bit.
Idk, Kirk got into fights with Finnegan, and Finnegan seemed the kind of guy to frequent the bars...
I do however believe that Kirk wasn't the one being a total ass and LOOKING for these fights.
@@photonicus False.
Finnegan bullied Kirk who was the bookworm.
And Kirk got into a fight with the illusion of Finnegan to give closure to that past.
Somehow, the Pakleds are the perfect TNG aliens for April Fools day.
Pakleds = Packrats!
They sure would have a lot less trouble if they would just listen to Worf once in a while
We can make you go ...away .
Nah, that's be like listening to Ripley in the Alien movies.
There's a few CZcams videos out there where they change it so the crew does listen to Worf and the episode ends in about 2 minutes.
While this a weaker episode, my cousins and I wore out the lines " we are smart, we are strong" for months after we saw it.
We look for things..Things we need.😂😂😂
"We are smart. We make things go!". 😂
Smarter than half the people I meet
"red alarm... red alarm... red alarm... "
“You want Mushroot. I am strong”
We are far from home...
The main Pakled they talk to is the same actor that played the Klingon captain in Riker's exchange program episode--and he was the original voice actor for Mr. Burns in the Simpsons... as well as Starscream in G1 Transformers, and Cobra Commander in GI Joe.
THAT WAS CHRIS LATTA???!!!😳
@@mem1701moviesThe original. He was taken over by Harry Shearer after only a handful of episodes.
@@ojasvasingh3040Indeed. Credited as Christopher Collins.
Holy shit!
Weird. He sounded like Wallace Shawn. "Incontheevable!"
An entire race of the people IT constantly have to deal with.
Make us strong! 🤣
My friend runs his own computer repair business, and whenever I call by he's trying to tell a customer what they did to break their machine and they're just going "huh?" So I understand this. 😅
i.e. Job security
"Any rumors of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated."
Never noticed before: Picard is quoting (paraphrasing) Mark Twain.
Okay
To give further context: Mark Twain said this after rumors/conspiracy theorists/news articles had spread gossip that he had died.
The Pakleds are a good reminder about why technology needs to be earned in order to use it responsibly.
Reason #1 for having a prime directive
Ferengi is the same - Klingons are at fault here iirc.
"Oh, man, we're entering a new era of Star Trek with Q Who! I can't wait to see what TNG has in store for us next!"
TNG: "We look for things... Things that make us go..."
I note that Worf didn't say, "Don't help them," he meant that maybe someone should go WITH the chief engineer.
This is my biggest issue with the episode. I get that Riker would still need to render aid despite not knowing anything about the Pakleds, but why oh why would you send your chief engineer alone?! No security accompaniment?! That's where the writing really face planted. At least send two security goons with him and have the Pakleds subdue them somehow
In Star Trek Online you can play as a Pakled who are apparently a Federation member.
I've never seen anyone choose a Pakled for their character.
I had a friend that played a Pakled. His ships were always named as laxative jokes.
New aliens! Perfect for April Fools Day! 😂
This episode does lay some ground work for one of the best episode of TNG, won't say what but it WILL be good.
That’s what saves this episode from ending up completely on the Shades of Grey list. The Picard parts of the episode is pretty good, enough to just be its own episode and it’s baffling how it is tied to such a bad subplot.
I have met real people like the Pakleds; people who really do need help but only know how to take without learning to do for themselves.
I’m in tech, we lead the market in them.
Riker is one of them. Can't believe he managed to get fooled by them when he had a mind reader on his side telling him their intentions.
Like blue-city Democrats who keep getting re-elected by the same morons eternally.
Reminds me of "Brain and brain what is brain?" 😂
"Spock's...brain....👋....controls."
After this episode was aired, imitating the Pakled lines made for quite a lot of fun among myself and friends -- under the right situations.
The Picard and Wesley part was very good. The other part did make the crew look dumb by not listening to Worf and sending a security team with LaForge while he repaired the ship.
They have an entire engineering department, they're on a schedule, and they're worried about not being in range of the captain's shuttle. They should have sent over a full team of engineers to fix the problem as quickly as possible, along with a modest security detail to make sure the aliens don't pilfer any engineering equipment while the engineers are distracted. If that seems like overkill to anyone, so what? It's a training opportunity for the crew. What else are they doing all day?
I actually blame Geordi for this, quite a bit. He shouldn't be letting his ego get in the way and deciding to fix everything personally. He should be working to improve the capabilities and careers of his crew. Bring that new girl with him to teach her some hands on real world stuff she hasn't seen in an Academy classroom. Bring another more experienced engineer that he can count on to do most of the work while he supervises, so that more experienced engineer can improve his resume. Bosses should be developing their people. That's their main job, really. Starfleet is building more ships all the time that need experienced officers who can lead their brand new engineering departments, and the Enterprise needs new more experienced officers to replace those who will be moving on.
Riker should know this too, which is why he should insist Geordi take some other engineers with him, or better yet, send his #2 to lead the away team and get more experience in leadership.
The Ferengi weren't silly enough as antagonists so they had to bring these clowns in.
BTW, Bones walking in to do the surgery would have been the ultimate mic drop moment.
he did put spocks brain back in, so why not
@@LuciferAxolotl Well besides being 146 years old?
The Ferengi aren't silly.
@@Brian-qn7fn No in early TNG, they’re way worse.
Or Doctor M’Benga.
Picard opening the door for Whesly, who seemingly never saw a door, that did not open itself was a nice touch. petty that went by you.
The best part of this episode by far is the moment between Wes and Picard on the shuttle. It's a really great moment. Wes wasn't being cringe, he was hero worshiping and Picard shot him down hard. Which is what he needed. Wes is still a kid in the end, he needs a role model like Picard, a good person with flaws, not a hero that can do no wrong.
Picard gets stabbed through the heart and just laughs.
It is an interesting characterization for the cliche diplomat captain. Good choice.
@@sebastianwittmeier1274 Well he wasn't always like that.
@sebastianwittmeier1274 name some of these other "cliché diplomat captains" 😆
@@docsavage8640 perhaps I expressed myself wrong. Instead of making JL Picard a cliche diplomatic captain compared to JT Kirk, they gave him a more interesting background. Of course you also need good acting and good scripts to make/keep a non-cliche figure with contradicting traits believable.
It is a neat small detail, and without spoiling, this is a lil secret foreshadow later on in the series
Christopher Collins, the actor who played the Pakled Captain, also played the Klingon Captain in the earlier episode “A Matter of Honor” where Riker is aboard the Klingon ship.
Talk about.a demotion in terms of roles!
Yep, and the guy was a Stand up comedian, plus best known for his ICONIC voice acting as Cobra Commander and Starscream of G.I.Joe fame and Transformers
AKA Chris Latta. When the episode originally aired, I recognized his name in the credits. As a kid born in ‘77, I saw that name in countless cartoon credits. I watched and waited, hoping to recognize his voice and finally see what Cobra Commander and Starscream actually look like in real life. No internet to image search the guy’s name.
As soon as the Pakleds were revealed, my brother and I snapped to attention, looked at each other, and used a not-nice 80’s word for the mentally slow, prefaced with the word “space”. (You figure it out)
I knew then that I’d be sharing a cell with him in Hell one day.
Great episode and you’ll be getting more Picard lore as you go.
In the original non-updated CGI version the city of the Star Base was actually the reused city from Angel One (the Mistress female lead society from season one) so it kind of looks the same but they added some new buildings and add-ons to make it look different.
Oooooo, Beata and Ariel!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver "Trent go put on more perfume for all the good it will do you." 😂
@@bradbarter8314 That episode is a hoot, actually!
I love 💜 how much you guys love Chief O’Brien, laughed out loud when you were talking about Geordie being beamed directly onto the bridge. “O'Brien’s not there we don’t need to be there. 😂
As awesome as it would have been to have a Dr. Crusher cameo at the end, it would never happen, not while Maurice Hurley was still head writer and showrunner.
...one of the doctors in this episode was actor Tzi Ma, who also played General Shang in Arrival (2016)...
Alex's hatred of Pulaski continues to crack me up 😆😆😆
It’s kind of sad actually, because Diana Muldaur is actually a very good actress, and was very good on the original Star Trek series. Her character was just terribly terribly written.
@@neneshubby No, you just don't like her character. She is written fine. She is supposed to be an antagonist for Picard.
@@Brian-qn7fn it was my understanding that she was supposed to be an antagonist for Data and that the writers were trying to create a Spock/Mccoy vibe
@@Brian-qn7fn No, she was written as a female McCoy but it doesn't work.
@@Brian-qn7fn Nah, she was more a foil to Data. The only reason why Picard didn't want her to perform the operation on the ship is exactly what she says: he doesn't want the crew to know and appear weak. It's all a matter of pride.
All hail the Sonya Gomez Fan Club! We look for things... things that make us go. Sonya Gomez makes us go!
She was always a hottie to me. They tried to make her character bumbling and goofy but she's still hot IMO
Pulaski is great because she isn't trying to be everybody's buddy all day
...I like this episode... For me the Pakleds represent current humanity VS the crew of the Enterprise idealised people of the future...
The Pakleds... my favorite intergalactic dipshits of all time!
When you don't like a character I guess you see a smirk. I just saw a happy smile from Pulaski knowing that Picard is okay.
Maybe Pulaski "outs" other people's disabilities to get back at McCoy for "outting" her blindness in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" 😅
I am a Pakled. I look for things. Things that make me comment.
LOL. Good one.
Wesley should also remember how it feels to be impaled from behind. It happened in the first season.
I never considered it but if Doctor Crusher would have shown up that would have been AWESOME!
I LOVE THESE GUYS!! One of my favorite early episodes. And ROLE MODELS TOO! In high school I used to use deceptive Pakled tactics to win track meets. I'd come out a make a big show about how uncoordinated and stiff I was. Meantime I did all my warm-ups in private and was ready to go! I won most of those races.
Send them 500 kilos of Kellogg's All Bran. That'll get them going.
Yes! They all look a little "Backed Up"!
You did the same gag SFDebris did years ago - Pakled: "We look for things, things to make us go" (Cut to a scene of Worf at a replicator) "Prune juice, chilled!"
5:15 Wesley "You would have made a good father" Picard: "I AM you're father!!"
I gave this episode a 👍 but the best part was the Wesley and Picard dynamic. Really good stuff. The other storyline was good as well, but I could have watched Wesley and Picard during the whole show and not been bored.
Would have been a great bottle episode.
"We want to be Nothing, if not persistent."
Teeth are for chewing.
Lol, I love how prescient Josh was about the Pulaski twist and how much you guys were pissed about it (or maybe it was just Alex lol).
0:00 I really enjoy the format you chose for your star trek videos. At first I didn't think the discussions as their own vid wouldn't work for me but I enjoy them very much.
Soon there will be no more Alex…only Beard! 😅
Also, liking the new downlighting. 👍
BeardMeatsStarTrek
Yep best thing of the episode was indeed Picard Telling about his history.
yeah, pakleds were a 1-off throw-away B-plot that became the most legendary species in star trek canon. =P
You look for constnecy between eps. Something from this ep comes back. I remember being deeply impressed they remembered that small tidbit
Christopher Collins was a stand up comedian before he died in 1994. He was also the original voice of Mr. Burns in the Simpsons.
I'm starting to get suspicious... Hopefully you guys have a trusted advisor helping you behind the scenes akin to a group yelling vague instructions to someone trying to hit a pinata at a birthday party and your blindfolds are in tact. The "First Time" in this title and the recent "All the Q Scenes in Season 1 & 2" videos are making me think spoilers might have leaked in.
I really, really, REALLY, want some of the future episodes to go completely spoiler-free. I would give my left nut to relive some of the moments Trek has provided me again for the first time. Let us not try to spoil things extra hard!
I think we should all speak in metaphor referencing stories that are only superficially similar to the ideas we are trying to convey. Then there would be a good chance that no one will know what the hell we're talking about!
Picard, at band camp, everyone cried
The writers of this episode missed an opportunity- they could have made the Pakleds extremely handsome, subverting the “beauty is good” cliche. Instead they just went with “stupid, selfish aliens must also be fat and unattractive.” Great job, writers.
You are so right, having it be doctor Crusher would be awesome here :-)
😂😂😂 The Pulaski hate is getting out of hand.
I liked her more than Beverly
It would've been amazing if they had Bones do an appearance
Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a physician!
@@Fast_Eddy_MagicI'm just imagining Bones coming in to the operating room looking all old and fragile like he was in episode 1 of TNG, tells everyone to get out of the way and just bosses the surgery like the giga chad he is
This is a surprisingly important episode of TNG and ST lore as a whole.
The surgeon at 11:24 is played byTzi Ma. He's probably better known as Consul/Administrator Han from the _Rush Hour_ franchise.
Me: Oh hey, new Target Audience vid is up! Wonder what episode they're on...
**Sees the thumbnail**
Me: Oh. Ohhh noooooo...
The Pakled Captain was Riker's Klingon Captain in Matter of Honor.
I thought this episode was MUCH later in the series. I was thinking about it, because of all the talk about the "prime directive" in the previous episodes. Love this episode just for its "defense" of the prime directive.
loved polaski.
The thing that drives me nuts about this episode is the reaction to Deanne Troi. For most of the series, her perception is nebulas and largely driven by plot necessity. In this case, she is jumping up and down screaming " get him the f@&k out of there now!" and is basically ignored. Worf as the security chief is also spouting concerns and they just send Geordi over alone. No wonder Riker isn't captain yet!
Yeah not gonna lie Riker really drops the ball on this one sadly.
Heterocyclic Declination is the most hilarious dialogue in the series
You must have missed it. In episode 1 of season 2 Captain Picard says Dr. Crusher took an assignment as head of Starfleet Medical. So they did not forget the character.
This was the episode where they stated that the Klingons joined the Federation, then Gene and/or the writers decided to walk back that decision later and show the Klingons as a separate empire from the Federation.
I never got the impression from "Farpoint" to now that the Klingons were a member; we just have a nonhostile relationship or weak alliance. I've always attributed this to a sloppy mistake made during a writers' strike.
At the time, I don’t think anybody really use the circumstances of the Federation/ Klingon peace.
So the episode where the Enterprise recuses the rogue Klingons when the Enterprise is in contact with the Klingon ship you see not only the Klingon insignia behind but the Federation symbol as well giving the impression the Empire has joined the Federation.
@@donovanbradford8231 Remember, that was a ruse. Worf deceived those Klingons. Into believing that the empire had conquered the federation.
Wil Wheaton is great in this episode.
I look forward to many more seasons of Gomez.
I think this is her last appearance 😢
I love the Picard backstory that this introduced
2:15 onward... the slow *eyes screaming* realization... "oh... this is going to be... problematic..." on Josh and Alex's faces.😳🙁
I mean I don't love Pulaski and I don't love season 2, but it seems like you guys sometimes look to invent reasons not to like something. No cameo from Gates McFdadden who was fired from the show? I mean you can complain that she was fired, but I don't think you can complain that she didn't get a cameo. And complaining that we don't know any of the surgeons is a bit silly too. It's world building, it's good to bring in characters that are new and not have everything revolve around just the small cast that we know.
Picard's reason for not wanting Pulaski to do his surgery is not because he doesn't like her (as the audience doesn't like her) but rather he wants to reflect a certain persona upon his crew. Understanding this part of Picard is REALLY important to understanding his character, so I feel like ignoring that to focus on a dislike of Pulaski is really doing a disservice to the show. We get it that you don't like her, most of us don't like her either. It's also worth noting that it was really a tall task to replace Gates McFadden especially under the circumstances involved.
I like her 😊
Hello gentlemen! Love the videos, it is awesome to re-watch the show with you, as someone that didn't grow up with it. Quick question, what is the name of the countdown timer you use? The audio is quite intriguing. Thank you!
The crimson forcefield is the best thing ever
Worst spoiler in my opinion was Terminator 2. The movie was set up to make it seem like Arnold was the bad guy and Robert Patrick was the good guy going after Arnold, but they gave the twist away in the trailers.
Shoots LaForge so nonchalantly, "request denied" ZZZAP!!!!
Enterprise: You awake?
Packleds: Request denied!
Packleds: /block Enterprise
Riker: 😮
Guys. I gotta say that, with this commitment to watch ALL Star Trek content, (which is a dream come true for me) it's going to take years at this rate. Consider 2 episodes at a time?🧐
Riker as Captain: POOR. Worf as Security Chief: Excellent. Georgi with a phaser instead transferring the parts and providing instructions at a console. Picard's ❤ story saved episode.
Famous last words: "I hope we never see..."
Praise God that Dr. Palaski was available to be ship doctor for startrek. She has experience as a doctor on other tv shows. The writers strike was disappointing. Happy to see fan scripts then.
Grebnedlog is Goldenberg spelled backwards, the Pakleds were created by Robert McCullogh, whose real name is Goldenberg.
1:29 - If you mean on the side of the warp nacelles, those were always there. Those are the warp field emitters that drive the ship.
Thanks!
I love Pulaski, and you will too.. eventually.
The Pakleds are perfect for April Fools day!
Alex's beard looks amazing. He looks like a young Ulysses S. Grant! This episode was criticized for possibly making fun of mentally disabled people, or maybe the worst kinds of Trek fans.
He looks like Images of Captain John Smith of Jamestown Colony!
You know what I learned the other day, Grant was one of the only U.S. Presidents arrested during his term. In 1872, he was arrested for speeding. Now, history buffs might be a little surprised by this as cars weren't invented yet, I know I was. I didn't know you could get pulled over on a horse.
Roddenberry was apparently amused by the fact that doctors were referred to as “bone crushers”, as he gave McCoy his nickname, and named the doctor of the Enterprise-D Crusher.
A mid episode for sure, while the Pakleds were at least different kind of threat to the crew of the Enterprise my favourite part of that plot was that it's the bond between the crew that allowed them to win through. The bond that comes from poker games and eating Rikers awful eggs and playing on the holodeck. Best scene is Picard and Wesley struggling to get along and finding a groove, with Picards amazing story.
7:14 *Kermit drinking tea meme*
I think this was the perfect April Fools for you guys, sorry no Dr. Crusher.
Sorry you lost your Mum fella, I lost my Mum too. I hope you both enjoy season 3 soon !
I don’t know the timeline of events or any of the behind-the-scenes stories. But if I had to take a guess where the looming writer’s strike started having a noticeable impact on the production of Season 2 … I would have to guess right about here.
Silly Naussicans... The name of the aliens who stabbed Picard is an Easter Egg to the anime Naucissia and the Valley of the Wind created and directed by the great Hayao Miyazaki. I kinda like the Pakleds in this episode. Nice and deceptive.
Hey... That's not Fireball... what is it?
Yes Riker, meanwhile, we have a great timeshare deal for you!
You've got to remember Gates MCFadden was persona non grata for being a "troublemaker". the showrunner hated her - no way they'd bring her back for a cameo.
I watched the show when it aired, putting aside the behind-the-scenes issues, while McFadden was loved by the rest of the cast, the general audience's response to Crusher, as well as fans was mediocre at best... I'd say she was just as much disliked as liked, if not more so...and thus, when Diana Muldaur(Much more well-known and proven actress) arrived, a lot of the fans were happy to see a female version of Bones.
These guys' ridiculous hatred of the Pulaski character is just weird.
The showrunner didn’t like Gates because she wouldn’t sleep with him… or so the rumor went
And Pulaski was grossly unpopular on Usenet (think Quora or Reddit only text only)… she was Bones without the charm. Her distaste for Data was far beyond the friendly teasing Bones would do for Spock… it was downright hostile and some even called it racist of a sort. By this point, the writers tried to soften her abrasiveness but it was too late, people couldn’t get over how she treated fan favorite Data
Oh no! My rubber band! It's broken!
Substandard episode but to this day, I will randomly say, “Broke. Make it go” when something doesn’t work
I half expect the pakleds to say "it's got electrolytes. It's what plants crave"
in hindsight, i expected more hats.
but srsly picard's pride f'd all this up... if he'd just done the procedure on the enterprise, it would have been fine. and he was more embarassed in the long run. hope he learned his lesson.
i love pulaski's arc this season so much, and this episode's ending is perfection after all that character development.
Haha yeah. Have the surgery and recover in my own bed or spend 6hrs with Wesley in a small shuttle craft to get the same thing. What a clod😛