Mine, oddly, is when Data is watching Picard sleep
When data gets the emotion chip and tries drinking. “I hate this”, takes another sip, “oh yes! I hate this! This is revolting!”.
Guinan: “More?”
Data: “Please.”
technically; that was a movie, not tng.
Oh shoot, you’re right.
Picard breaking down in the mud with his brother about his assimilation.
Picard in the Observation Lounge with Nuria, the Mintakan.
I find it incredibly moving
Someone else said my favorite one so ill go with another that i like a lot.
The scene with picard and wesley and picard gives him the speech about telling the truth.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it’s scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. And if you can’t find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don’t deserve to wear that uniform!
Bonus: My favorite silly moment was when time was stopped/very slowed and picard draws a smiley face in a warp core breach
I forget why, but Picard and Riker are away, Data is in command with Worf as his first officer. Data wants to be analytical and consider all options, Worf wants to fire all phasers and die in glorious battle. Data comes to a decision and gives orders, and Worf says “Finally!”
Data asks to see him in the ready room, and then dresses him down for talking back to him in front of the crew. They hash out what they expect the role of second in command is supposed to be, and with the military shit out of the way, Data then acknowledges that this dressing down may have damaged their friendship, and Worf replies that no, he was out of line so it was his fault, that he acknowledges that he was out of line and if we can overlook this incident he’d like to continue being friends.
Stated problems, voiced objections, addrressed objections, no personal slights, no raised voices, actual accountability expected and accepted…manliest conversation ever filmed.
Gambet, part 2, I believe.
That scene is wonderful, and gave me entirely unrealistic expectations for my workplace.
Did work end up being more like being on a Klingon ship or Borg?
Pakled.
So you are not wearing the big hat, I presume.
my hat is barely big enough to make this post.
Great scene.
The scene with Picard and the Romulan. The whole thing including the tea scene at the start with Beverly.
The moment where Picard says, “we have no law to fit your crime.”
Picard on the first duty.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness in a very traditional lifestyle in northern Ontario. His first and only language was Ojibway/Cree, he understood English but seldom spoke it as he preferred his our language only.
As a teen in the 90s I loved watched TNG and I watched it as often as I could whenever I could. I never stuck to a schedule and we only had the most basic satellite TV package we could afford at the time. I was so engrossed and loved the show so much that my dad at one point asked me … ‘It’s amazing that people are up there now that are doing all those things’
I had to explain to him that it was all just as show that was fake and that none of it was real.
To me … this is my favourite TNG moment … that the show was so convincing and well performed that it made my dad believe that it was real.
To be fair, my dad was probably the most intelligent person I’ve ever known and an excellent teacher. In his prime, he often just walked into the wilderness with nothing but a knife in the fall and came back midwinter with a stack of furs to trade and make money and then head back out again with very little to survive on. He just wasn’t that aware of what the outside world was all about.
The one where they have to prove Data is sentient or else he’ll get dismantled by Starfleet. Seems kind of apropos now with governments deciding, on a whim, who gets rights and also how hard we’re trying to make AGI happen.
Measure of a Man IIRC, fantastic episode.
THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS!!!
The byline for everyone around but not in the Trump administration right now.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra !!
Darmok and Jalad, on the ocean.
When the Enterprise blew up at the end of the opening sequence in the time loop episode, it was so shocking to me seeing it when it was first aired. I had no idea at all what could possibly happen after the commercial break.
The when I had deja vu when the show came back on, I was so confused until it blew up again. That sequence of destruction and restart became my favourite scene.
The episode, summarized:
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Nobody listens to Worf.
Data listens to a deck of cards.
Cause and Effect? Outstanding episode.
The ending of Inner Light where Picard is playing the flute into the void
The court scene in Drumhead where Picard refutes accusations of being a traitor by essentially quoting an IWW mantra and core tenant of Anarchism.
Bonus follow-up discussion with Worf after the trial.
Additional bonus, the IWW still operates to this day, and will gladly help train and support anyone to unionize their workplace, blue collar or white collar.
I came to put this scene in. But this comment informed me. I know of the IWW, but had never made the connection. Top notch comment, this.
The scene where all of those underdeveloped people come on board the Enterprise with their animals and one woman is shouting throughout the whole deck. Patrick Stewart lost it at this point, turns away from the camera and starts to laugh uncontrollably. But they kept the camera rolling and the scene turned out great!
Edit: It’s S02E18 “Up the Long Ladder”
Is that the one they start a fire in the area they’re in and then get shown the replicator? If so that general one always stuck though been many years now, but don’t recall the laughing offhand. I’ll have to watch for Stewart laughing, I love those kinds of reactions.
Yes that’s the one, with the drunk guy. The episode is so over the top, I love it.
Hah I always confused the name with that one with the episode Disaster (had to look it up Picard and kids winning something), no wonder I rarely watched it. Cause I’m pretty sure they go up ladders in turbolifts in that one so just thought that was that episode. But I recall liking the backwards people starting fires. To be fair I don’t watch much TNG these days but still my favorite series by far (also haven’t watch a series since Enterprise so may need to catch up).
