YOUTUBE - First Time Watching ALL of Star Trek - Episode 171: The Offspring (TNG S3E16)
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You want to see Brent Spiner act differently? Watch this https://youtu.be/7NrNlzstKzo?si=bvXvonXTioXhxZl- https://youtu.be/qE6brM24yIA?si=EIt_0Gzr07vnKlWu
Brent 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.
“His hands were moving faster than I could see” great performance from the admiral…eventually
Riker 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"
I think the first thing in Trek that made me tear up was when Bones had to physically stop Kirk from saving Edith Keeler.
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haha Love how you guys always crap all over Pulaski. Got a good chuckle from myself.
Laughed out loud quite a bit editing that part
Glad 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 🖖
My second favorite episode. My favorite is in Season 5
As 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.
The 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.
Apparently the actress played Hilary Duff's mother on the television show Lizzie McGuire. I barely remember that show, but the characters seem completely different.
You 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.
"According to Jonathan Frakes, 'The Offspring' was the best sci-fi episode ever written." Wow!
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So 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 had…just like Data.
You 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.)
What a stellar directorial debut from Johnathan Frakes.
This isn't even the teariest-tear jerker.
You would have to be made of Dolamite not to cry
Data's second child will be named LMAO.
And the third PWTF