YOUTUBE VIDEO: First Time Watching ALL of Star Trek - Episode 156: Evolution (TNG S3E1)

I find myself wondering why the bar seems to be closed (or at least empty) when Wesley is laying his nanite traps. Wouldn't it likely have people in it at all hours, since the Enterprise has 3 shifts going at all times? Just an observation when rewatching the episode. (which I've done repeatedly since they first went off the air)

We see Wesley in what's generally accepted to be the Enterprise's bar... do we think there's licensing laws / drinking laws in the future? Everyone has a replicator at home, so I thought maybe it's just considered a lounge? But Guinan serves real booze as well as synthahol. In the UK, some pubs can't have anyone under 18 in there at all, nicer ones that focus on food can have anyone in there when accompied by an adult. I don't think you'd ever see a group of unaccompanied teens chilling in a pub. What we call a 'bar' has even stricter rules I think.

How many of the letters calling for Gates McFadden's return were written retroactively by Alex?

Yeay! Now I'm feeling the benefit of membership, I had nothing to smoke a joint to tonight 🤪 until now! Good job guys xxx

I believe it’s the same recording of Patrick Stewart at the start. If you watch closely, you can see in the original intro, a smooth star field throughout, but in Season 3, watch as the rings pass just before Picard’s monologue begins. You can see the wipe curve that follows the rings and transitions. I enjoy this one, but one thing that bugs me about this episode: the conversation Crusher and Picard have about her son. 🧐 Surely, that conversation happened more around the time she actually came back on board. 😆 That, of course, was on Stardate *obscured text* 😏 On the subject of the credits: I’m someone who loves the music, but doesn’t always read the credits; but I let them play through, because it puts me at peace of mind at all the people who made what I watched. Sometimes I’m reading them closely, not always. On spoilers in the credits (No Spoilers), there’s a Voyager episode where if you spot the name in the guest cast, you have some intrigue left wondering how THAT name arrives on the show. lol 💙

Will the 2nd TNG movie be about those nanites taking control of a Federation starship and seeking revenge on Picard and crew for what happened to them on that planet?

That might not be 100% right. Besides they don't like spoilers.

Dr. Crusher just seemed like an OK character to me. She seemed too young to be the chief medical officer of anything, but perhaps the character, not the actress, is older and just looks younger due to 24th century medicine. However, it made no sense for her son to be left behind on the Enterprise for a year. I remember that I was a huge baseball fan at the time, but I also remember some excessive talk about baseball in this episode for some weird reason.

"How does a machine evolve?" Alex: "Not in front of Data." I thought Alex said, "Have fun with Data."

Thanks for the vid guys, knew you'd jump out your seats at seeing Dr Beverly back again. Pulaski is gone and never to be seen or mentioned again. More good things to come in this season... Can't wait!

I'm leaving a lot of comments today, but it's my first day as a patron, so I've got shit to say I guess. Here's my spoiler-free ratings for all of season 3. A 1 makes it painful to watch, a 10 makes it one of the best episodes in this series, and a 5 makes it just solid Star Trek. **rankings redacted after correction from fellow Patron. Leaving the comment here since there are some replies.**

Definitely one of the weaker episodes but a lot of good in S3 and of course the end, well hell of a cliffhanger when it was released!

"Took you long enough. Not sure why you saw fit to make your subscribers wait so long for S3, but whatever, it's up now" Youtube comments, probably

What is this new editing style? WOKE GARBAGE. No, i'm missing. It looks good!

I agree Dr. Stubs was an all-time bad guest character. As young as I was when watching this show originally, I don’t think I ever realized his dumbtastic episode was also the first return of Beverly Crusher. Back in my day (late 80's/early 90's), we just watched them all ad nauseum in whatever order they were syndicated to us in. And also, I think the concept of a "season premiere" wasn't as big of a deal back then. So as happy as we were to have Dr. Crusher back, I couldn't have told you which episode it actually happened in. I also agree with a previous comment that episode 2 isn't much better. I predict you will love episode 3, though.

Good bye, Spandex. Hello, Dr. Crusher. It might be a spoiler to say that this is one of the weakest episodes of the season because that means there are at least twenty episodes of better quality.

I think you pretty much nailed it with your initial analysis of this episode. Later episodes will definitely impress, I’m sure.

I'm sure you've already heard/figured this out by now, but this episode is basically the Season 3 equivalent of The Child. It's one of the weakest episodes of the season. While on the whole, Season 3 is great, especially in it's later half, it's not without it's share of ultimately forgettable episodes as well. I'm not a fan of the next episode either. I like the Sheliak stuff, but I feel that the stuff on the planet has a cringe level of writing on par with the Outrageous Okona's mary sue. The girl character served no purpose ultimately, and in sitcom fashion, I felt like the solution was obvious the whole time and we were waiting for the characters to catch up. All the points about debate were completely lost since the debate itself was pointless. As for this episode, i feel like our unlikeable guest star character (can't even remember his name) is meant to be a warning to "gifted" people like Wesley to not get so caught up in one thing that you lose yourself to it. As a "gifted" person myself however, I never found this relevant. And watching it now I can see that all of his seemingly advisory words were just further inflations of his own ego. Dude's just a douche.

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There are several episode moments your viewers are looking forward to seeing your reaction. Beverly in the credits was one of them.

Who has two thumbs and guest stared on TNG? Bob Kelso.

You have the audacity to post this after all that vamping?i

Been thinking all of season 2 how happy you would be at the start of season 3. I was never a fan of Dr. Plastic as I called her due to that endearing personality she had but love me some Bev!