YOUTUBE - First Time Watching ALL of Star Trek - Episode 171: The Offspring (TNG S3E16)
Added 2024-06-26 04:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Oh, yeah you're right! That's what made it even more heart wrenching was that it was Kirk that stopped Bones... My memory isn't what it used to be.
Derek Locke
2024-06-26 16:44:45 +0000 UTCThat's backwards
Monty Crawford
2024-06-26 16:42:00 +0000 UTCYou want to see Brent Spiner act differently? Watch this https://youtu.be/7NrNlzstKzo?si=bvXvonXTioXhxZl- https://youtu.be/qE6brM24yIA?si=EIt_0Gzr07vnKlWu
Joe Ibrahim
2024-06-26 16:10:09 +0000 UTCApparently the actress played Hilary Duff's mother on the television show Lizzie McGuire. I barely remember that show, but the characters seem completely different.
Chtphr Rrr
2024-06-26 15:35:15 +0000 UTCBrent Spiner wrote a fun book called Fan Fiction, which is part fiction/part memoir about his time during TNG, and there's a lot about this episode in it.
KevinH
2024-06-26 15:33:11 +0000 UTCβHis hands were moving faster than I could seeβ great performance from the admiralβ¦eventually
Donjeur
2024-06-26 15:02:30 +0000 UTCRiker at the bar though... "Commander, what are your intentions with my daughter?" "Your daughter!!?" Then he does the head cocked Riker walk-away. "Still got it"
Josh Turner
2024-06-26 14:30:15 +0000 UTCI think the first thing in Trek that made me tear up was when Bones had to physically stop Kirk from saving Edith Keeler.
Derek Locke
2024-06-26 13:55:41 +0000 UTCLaughed out loud quite a bit editing that part
Josh (Target Audience)
2024-06-26 13:53:18 +0000 UTChaha Love how you guys always crap all over Pulaski. Got a good chuckle from myself.
Hammer Jammer
2024-06-26 13:46:16 +0000 UTCGlad this one got you in the feels, I'd be concerned if it hadn't. This is my second favorite episode of season 3, yesterday's enterprise only edges it out because of Tasha. Looking forward to your discussion. Thanks so much π
Dru Blood
2024-06-26 12:22:25 +0000 UTCMy second favorite episode. My favorite is in Season 5
Daniel Rotello
2024-06-26 12:13:53 +0000 UTCSeymour, noooooooooo!
Charlie's Illiteracy
2024-06-26 11:57:13 +0000 UTCAs I had said in my last post in my Top 5 episodes of the show. And it's the show that keeps on giving, always bringing a tear to the eye. Just Perfect.
Robert Bruce
2024-06-26 08:21:47 +0000 UTCdrugs
Ken R
2024-06-26 07:23:15 +0000 UTCYou would have to be made of Dolamite not to cry
Who Cares reallly
2024-06-26 06:51:44 +0000 UTCThe actress playing LAL is really charming and skillful in the part. Not all actors cast as Vulcans in ST 'get' the correct way to play them, just as 'androids' aren't straightforward to play. This actress really hit the target in not being too robotic, or too immediately relatable. If Frakes cast her (instead of the producers) then that's an even more impressive debut as director than he's often given credit for.
Numinous2019
2024-06-26 06:43:01 +0000 UTCYou were comparing Jonathan Frakes' television directing to William Shatner's directing. Shatner was actually supposed to direct the 25th episode of the third season. However, NBC canceled the show just before this. As Shatner was busy getting ready to direct an episode, he actually found out that Star Trek had been canceled a day or a few days before the rest of the cast. The episode was to be named "The Joy Machine" and was written by Theodore Sturgeon who wrote the original series popular episodes "Shore Leave" and "Amok Time". Originally entitled "The Root of Evil", the episode dealt with a population of a Federation colony getting addicted to a sophisticated machine stimulating the brain's pleasure center, which rewarded the workers with "hours of joy" in exchange for the work hours. In one rewrite, Spock became addicted to the machine too. A later version of the script took place on a planet inhabited by mentally ill people and featured a love story for Scotty. In 1996, "The Joy Machine" was adapted into a Star Trek novel written by James Gunn as Theodore Sturgeon had died in 1985. William Shatner later directed 10 episodes of his police television show T.J. Hooker between 1983 and 1986 before directing Star Trek V; I can't really comment on his directing of Star Trek V though as I disliked its story so much.
Chtphr Rrr
2024-06-26 06:42:42 +0000 UTCJust wait for the episode with Picards dog Seymour
Phil Ken Sebben
2024-06-26 06:06:51 +0000 UTC"According to Jonathan Frakes, 'The Offspring' was the best sci-fi episode ever written." Wow!
Chtphr Rrr
2024-06-26 06:06:31 +0000 UTCSo glad you liked this one. I do wish we had had more time with Lal, but they did the best they could with the time they hadβ¦just like Data.
ChemicalCrash
2024-06-26 06:04:19 +0000 UTCYou say that Worf was hardly in this episode. Heck, he was hardly in the last episode either. However, Michael Dorn says that this is one of his two favorite episodes along with a non-Klingon episode that hasn't aired yet. (This episode didn't grab me, but I think I am in the minority. Yeah, they need to quit making the Star Fleet and Federation superiors such obvious jerks. I would say that they stole that tendency from the television show M*A*S*H which was an attack on the people who got the US involved in the Vietnam War from characters who were drafted into a similar war, but the original Star Trek show predates M*A*S*H by a few years. I guess that trope has a much longer history in television.)
Chtphr Rrr
2024-06-26 06:03:31 +0000 UTC"Ok, this is the big emotional climax and we need a line for the Starfleet guy when he comes out of the room that captures the feeling." "How bout 'His hands were moving faster than Superman on laundry day?" "You're fired."
Trouty McTroutTrout
2024-06-26 05:53:08 +0000 UTCWhat a stellar directorial debut from Johnathan Frakes.
voxymandias
2024-06-26 05:32:44 +0000 UTCOf course, we never speak of Data's kid, OMGWTFBBQ.
Juan TutrΓfor
2024-06-26 04:41:00 +0000 UTCAnd the third PWTF
Jovet
2024-06-26 04:32:24 +0000 UTCThis isn't even the teariest-tear jerker.
Jovet
2024-06-26 04:27:49 +0000 UTCData's second child will be named LMAO.
Juan TutrΓfor
2024-06-26 04:14:25 +0000 UTC
