Silicon Avatar, Gallifrey Gals Get Warped! S5Ep4
Added 2022-01-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTCAn episode that Paula is rediscovering along side Katrina! We always have those episodes that we totally blank out but become more familiar as we find them once again! Happy Trekkie Tuesday!
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We see throughout this episode Picard's wisdom in setting aside personal feelings in order to see things objectively yet ironically that same wisdom doesn't even spare him as we see in "I, Borg" in the next season how his own personal trauma with the Borg affected his perception of Hugh & in Star Trek's 8th film.Of course this is all fiction but it just goes to show that when it comes to our own personal trauma we aren't immune to our own bias and prejudices. This is why I love TNG.
Rob Lee
2022-09-18 19:01:40 +0000 UTCDid it actively conspire to wipe out the Omicron Theta colony or the Enterprise crew, though? From what I recall it could be that each time Lore may have simply lured it into doing what he wanted it to do.
Raja
2022-02-01 17:50:46 +0000 UTCBy the way, it was really nice when you were including the links for each video. This lets you play it in the app instead of your browser, which often works better. It would be nice if you'd include them in the future.
Bluefox
2022-01-31 10:03:59 +0000 UTCI actually vividly remember watching this episode as a kid. The final scene where data tells her that her son would not have liked what she did really impacted me and has stuck with me over the years. It was a gut punch of an ending, for sure.
Chrono Gamer
2022-01-31 01:10:39 +0000 UTCFolks in the Fandom gotta realize, Picard and Kirk lived in two completely different time periods. Even Cpt. Janeway (ST: Voyager) acknowledged that in the episode "Flashback". Picard is operating in a universe that had to be tamed by pioneers before him. And Picard can be the best at his job BECAUSE Starfleet officers like Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the others were the best at theirs. One is not better than the other and fans should be comfortable with each mans place in the Star Trek universe.
Sal Sanchez
2022-01-29 14:48:02 +0000 UTCThe problem isn't just the motivation. It's that she killed it while she had it trapped, rather than even attempting any communication. It's not actually clear in the episode that it knows what it is doing, or that there might not be a way to stop it without killing it. The whole idea is that they are going to try to let it know that it is killing sapient life, not just, say, shooting some wild animals. And then to try and negotiate with it to stop it without killing it. Sure, that negotiation may fail, making killing the only choice. But the problem is that Dr. Barr decided to kill it before that point. She spends all that time making a device to try to communicate with it, telling everyone that's what she's doing to do, getting Federation approval--and then she just kills it. Sure, the son didn't approve. But I don't think it would have been right to kill it even if the son did. Not until actually seeing if it knew what it was doing and trying to get it to stop. Killing should be the last resort, not the first resort. I'm sure that's why the Federation didn't just shoot it with a few photon torpedoes when it was far enough away from a planet not to cause any damage. I feel the episode, in trying to explain Dr. Marr, went a bit too far it making it seem like the problem was merely killing out of vengeance. The problem was killing without trying all other available options first. That fits with how TNG works in other episodes.
Bluefox
2022-01-29 12:52:12 +0000 UTCBit of trivia: The voice recording of Raymond Marr was provided by Jason Marsden, a very prolific voice actor. You might remember him as the voice of Max in "A Goofy Movie".
Neil McRae
2022-01-28 03:38:02 +0000 UTCI understand Picard's point of view in this episode but he doesn't communicate it very well (ironic?). It would have been better for him to say they need more information in case they encounter more like that entity in the future, and to provide reasoning that they are killing sentient life, etc.
Chris Lane- Venturi 3D
2022-01-26 09:01:27 +0000 UTCMan oh man, I'd forgotten how gray season five is. There are so few cut-and-dry choices, or so few choices that don't generate bifurcating discourse. Like this episode! Who was right? Who was wrong? Was there a villain? So good. Thanks as always!
Joshua Gosdin
2022-01-26 04:08:47 +0000 UTCSo I think a thing with these callbacks to season one (let's not forget about Minuet's reappearance in season four) is that when this show was on, the episodes were in rotation constantly. So while Katrina is just moving forward one at a time, the original Crystalline Entity episode had probably aired a hundred times by the time this episode came out. So the audiences in the early 90s might have remembered the entity more than we bingers would.
Chris Neumann
2022-01-26 01:58:19 +0000 UTCI think you said that they attacked the Borg immediately, but that's not true. Picard attempted peaceful communications with the initial boarding Borg back in S2.
JXTN
2022-01-26 00:38:46 +0000 UTCI don't think she'd go to prison or anything, but I think the Federation scientific community would be more aligned with Picard's perspective than Riker's, and wouldn't want her involved with them. She's on her own out in the cold, now.
JXTN
2022-01-26 00:37:44 +0000 UTCIt was literally when I saw the notification for this video (so prior to Paula saying out loud so I'm not a complete doofus), that I realised that the episode title would be pronounced the way it is, not "a-VAR-ta". Apparently I hadn't come across the word before - no idea how old I would have been, because apparently TNG didn't first air, as in S1E01, in Australia until about 2 weeks after this aired in the US - took a long time for me to hear it said out loud, and had it so locked in my head that the episode somehow had a different word.
AJ
2022-01-26 00:37:14 +0000 UTCBut I like Picard better than Kirk.... -episode happens- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
John
2022-01-25 23:42:09 +0000 UTCSomehow I doubt the inhabitants of the planets the entity was heading for or the relatives of the lost crew and colonists ended up cursing Dr. Marr's name. Even Riker was sympathetic to her actions. She would probably get a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue her research with the quiet thanks of many for ridding space of what amounted to a Great White Shark. The argument the shark had just as much right as swimmers to be in the waters just won't cut it in this case.
Mark Chrisco
2022-01-25 23:05:50 +0000 UTCPicard's calm reverence for all life is a big part why he was my favorite. I also liked how the crew weren't about vengeance.
Kirk Deighton
2022-01-25 21:40:49 +0000 UTCIt's funny, when this episode first aired my reaction was just like Katrina's... not knowing what Riker was talking about when he said "we've seen this before." (Of course, in the intervening years I’ve watched every episode about a zillion times.) So I was a bit upset when she didn’t remember it. But then it (finally) occurred to me that Kat hasn’t seen every episode a zillion times, like I have. Her reaction was just like my first reaction. Sorry for the “instant judgement” Katrina. 🙂
Mark Steckel
2022-01-25 21:39:02 +0000 UTCWhile I agree that Mara was to gung ho to destroy the entity I always felt like Picard was playing it too low key. This thing was a killer. The fact that it was intelligent and not a dumb animal makes it even more dangerous. A creature that can actively conspire with another lifeform to wipe out a whole colony is not something you want to give the benefit of the doubt to.
John Welch
2022-01-25 21:24:53 +0000 UTCIt's the unfortunate conundrum of Troi and them figuring out how and when to use her. Her empathic ability could (and should) solve a lot of problems that it doesn't, but then you wouldn't have full episodes. I remember at a convention someone asked Marina Sirtis about why they didn't use her ability more often and she talked about not being included in some episodes just because they wanted to avoid having her empathic power impact plots.
DC
2022-01-25 21:11:19 +0000 UTCCan't you just do that anyway if you have an issue with it? You don't have to pay attention to the episode footage if you're just interested in the reactions and want to use your own copy.
DC
2022-01-25 21:05:28 +0000 UTCThis episode has a lot of small things that boost the emotional storytelling. Like Picard, sitting with his foot on his desk, then nonchalantly lowering it to his leg as he responds to the door chime. But the best one is when Data is reading out that letter in which it talks about Mara's having a great sense of humor. Which there isn't a SINGLE SIGN of in the entire episode. In that one line you see how much she's lost and changed after the death of her son. Even as she warms to Data and clings to him as the embodiment of her dead son, she still never regains her humor, foreshadowing her actions at the end of the episode. The Chrystaline Entities and the space jellyfish from the pilot both make a return in some non-canon follow-up novels taking place after the series which explored the space ecosystem they inhabited.
Nolan
2022-01-25 20:53:01 +0000 UTCAfter viewing this episode after it first aired I turned to my brother and told him that if a giant crystalline entity ever killed me he had my permission to destroy it. While I do not agree with WHY she destroyed it, revenge, I do agree with that it needed to be destroyed. In my opinion it had already proven itself to be malevolent by conspiring with Lore to kill the crew of the Enterprise. It knew what it was doing. When it attacked the colony here it just happed to start right where the colonists were on an entire planet. Intent. If the thing is capable of reproducing it would likely be in the hundreds or thousands. Sometimes monsters must die, without trying to get them to explore their feelings.
Henchman Twenty1
2022-01-25 20:45:09 +0000 UTCI remember seeing an interview with the writers where they said they liked the title "Silicon Avatar" because it could refer to either the crystalline entity or Data.
Dan Crucy
2022-01-25 20:40:37 +0000 UTCHaving lived through, recorded on VHS and watched the single rerun at each seasons halfway mark, it wasn't until around 1992 that TNG as well as having the original series included for individual networks to finally have the first couple of seasons go into syndication. That means unless you had recorded it you couldn't watch the older seasons again on TV until this occurred. I remember being excited and recording those episodes I didn't have and also called the local TV station to get them to show Symbiosis and Skin of Evil in the proper order as another channel before them didn't and had Tasha die then be alive in the next episode as they were shown in order number filmed instead of order they aired. So imagine waiting those 4 years and being shown the crystalline entity and being expected to remember it so even much more of a break than with the reaction channel.
Brad Barter
2022-01-25 19:18:45 +0000 UTCI like your channel but please try to keep chat about things like who is a better Captain to before your reaction videos as the random rant went right into the death of Carmen. I know she had a short spot in the episode but by the time the energy weapon hit the focus should've been on the reaction as it happens and not in the middle of the action. No hate, love you guys, just trying to bring focus to reacting.
Brad Barter
2022-01-25 19:10:39 +0000 UTCI blame Troi, if she was doing her job this would have never happened. Katrina, when you first came on I couldnt see you were wearing a choker, just the bauble. I though you had pierced your throat! Pls dont scare me like that.
Mark Ten
2022-01-25 19:09:35 +0000 UTCI always enjoy your reviews and i hope you'll forgive me if you have already addressed this but your reactions are a few seconds in front of the video we see can that not be helped?
John Savage
2022-01-25 19:07:46 +0000 UTCWhen I was young I thought this episode's title was Silicon Aviator, like a pilot for a plane. I was very confused haha
Mike
2022-01-25 19:07:30 +0000 UTCIt is still rather irritating with the reactions being several seconds ahead of the footage provided. It would just be better to not provide footage and we just sync-up our own copy of the episode to be in sync with the reactions, like most other reactors do. It also helps with copyright issues.
David Brown
2022-01-25 19:01:42 +0000 UTCSomebody went to the stylist
Andrew Hogan
2022-01-25 18:06:53 +0000 UTC
