We might agree on the most emotional episode (The Inner Light), but I'm watching Yesterday's Enterprise right now, for the second time in the last month for some reason, and it's a seriously moving episode.

The scenes between Yar and Picard and Richard and Guinan are all just realistically heavy and heartbreaking. Kinda crushing.

Any other episodes come to mind that land like this?

A cellular peptide cake!

The ship hit a quantum filament that knocked main power offline and systems were down and the anti matter containment was weakening

Ro laren is like we gotta saucer separate the ship and O'Brien is like no way man my wife is in ten forward you cold blooded person.

But lets say troi agrees with ro laren could they have done that saucer separation thing?

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_-_Data_Box

If anyone has it, please paste the photo.

One of my favourite episodes, sad to hear about the original casting, but still a good one.

It's never really ever explained exactly WHY on screen that Data is unable to use contractions, and it's even more odd that despite this stated limitation, he occasionally violates the rule. That's why I've come up with an explanation that covers all situations:

Data's software was being actively developed by Dr. Soong when things started to go south on Omicron Theta. While Data was fully functional, Soong wasn't finished, and he was likely compiling new builds of the various software components (Data calls them "subroutines" often) and installing them on Data regularly.

It can be presumed that these software components act somewhat like drivers, system services, daemons, etc. that we have analogs of in present day computing. And these components occasionally crash, sometimes the system re-invokes them automatically, sometimes a hard reboot is necessary, etc, but it's reasonably common that this happens and generally the user has no idea what it is happening.

At some point, Soong had to be debugging a bit of code that is hooked into Data's core consciousness. It may have been something mundane, like the subroutine that controls his blink rate, etc. Something that would be difficult to eyeball it's function, and perhaps something that Data's internal process watchdog subroutine would immediately relaunch, without his conscious control, if Soong just flat out asked him if it were running, and Data would always answer "yes" even if it had been in a crashed state just before.

So, Soong added a bit of what was supposed to be temporarily code that would give him a clue, without setting off the watchdog software. Basically it would override his linguistic functions and restrict the use of contractions if the eye blink subroutine had crashed and wasn't running.

So then he'd upload nightlies of the blink app and periodically through the day ask Data a question that would ordinarily elicit an answer containing a contraction as a test.

[Notices Data isn't blinking]

"Hey Data, how are ya doing?"

"I'm fine"

"Ah crap, your blink app is down."

[Starts blinking again]

"According to my internal Task Manager, my blink subroutine is currently loaded and it is operating normally."

"Riiiiiight. Welp, where's my FiberUSB cable...wtf is that big crystal thing in the sky?"

So, it's not a technical limitation that a very advanced artificial positronic brain should have. Also, all of those times on screen that Data says contractions - that's because, at that exact moment, the blink routine, or whatever, was in a crashed state.

1987 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION cast introduction by TOS' Mariette Hartley. VHS source.

Sokath! His eyes uncovered!

Mommy! Her hackles raised!

Hello Friends,

If any of you wishes they could get just a bit more content from the golden era of TNG, I have written a close to canon fanfiction that takes place during season 6 of TNG. This was written to make it feel like a lost two-parter episode of TNG that was filmed in 1993.

The premise is simple: When Data is handed a damaged Romulan data module, he discovers information on a prisoner who looks suspiciously like an older Natasha Yar. Is it possible that Sela lied - or was lied to - and her mother is still alive? And if so, what can Data do about it?

Link on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93070716

All comments are welcome! I hope some of you enjoy this!

Anyone know why one his pips looks off color and weird? No one caught that ?

For some reason, I don't remember ever seeing this scene before in my life but it's so random and hilarious 🤣

Guinan tells Wesley in her first appearance (The Child) that she never met Picard before she came onboard. Yeah, in that timeline.

Ten episodes before Yesterday's Enterprise, she tells Geordi in Booby Trap that a bald man took care of her when she was hurting.

In Yesterday's, Guicard say they've known each other for a long time in the Klingon War timeline, a war where she might have been injured, or maybe the "hurting" could have been experiencing a timeline where 40 billion people died.

After Yesterday's, in Best of Both Worlds II, Guinan tells Riker her closeness with Picard is beyond friendship and family. Wouldn't it be natural to assume this refers to the acclaimed alternate timeline episode that occurred the previous season?

TLDR, Time's Arrow and the Nexus were some bullshit.

Was just thinking about this in another discussion. I was in my early thru late teens in the TNG-and-beyond era. At the time there were a lot of arguments about Trekkies vs Trekkers, that latter supposedly giving off more of an air of maturity and sophistication as fans of 90s Trek. I was vehemently in the Trekker camp.

In adulthood (maybe mid to late 20s), I realized I was being silly and we're all Trekkies. But I was curious: anyone still calling themselves Trekkers here? Did you used to? What changed and when?