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My theory on the Dixieland opinion is that she was programmed to interface specifically with Riker. I think she was being ‘playful’ knowing Riker was a Dixieland Trombonist. Kinda like when Fletch asked for a towel because his car hit a water buffalo. – yes. I just made a Fletch reference.
The Binars referenced Rikers file so they had a step up. They programmed her to be Intriguig to Riker
Maybe the binars had the data in their fanny packs and they lied to Wesley (Oh my!) about the sounds he heard.
Suitcase full of thumb drives
Gotta say it, the Bynars have the thirstiest eyes I've seen on TV. Every glance is flat out dripping with sexual tension.
Never would have expected Steve to have such strong opinions about jazz music.
Yeah, Picard did get introduced with a menacing light/shadow motif in the pilot episode so it fits with him being a bit of a dick in the first season.
I think dixieland is the most dancable of the jazzes
You could explain the computer problem by saying that the Binars sent the information to the Enterprise with a light speed transmission, which depending on the location of the Enterprise, could be received after the supernova has happened but sent prior to it. For example the Binars could have sent the information to a relay station that then sent it to the direction the Enterprise would be and make that distance longer than the distance between the Enterprise and the supernova, and because light speed is the same everywhere, it would arrive after the supernova happened, so you could use the light lag as a storage medium even if you didn't have a computer able to store the information.
The episode was dull. Very dull. Very forgetable. I always skip it on my series DVDs.
Eyz Wide Shut was so good
14:43 Show me the point. No bloody A, B, C or D!
“I’ve got the rhythm of a dreaming dog’s randomly kicking legs.”
Thank you Steve, for this piece of verbal poetry that I will now be adding to my repertoire.
Up there with "The Masterpiece Society" for dull episodes, honestly. But the starbase was cool.
good video thanks
I want to hug you for the Eyes Wide Shut reference
If you want a borderline-maybe-realistic way to solve the data transfer, here it is: They sent the data using radio or light.
When the Enterprise travelled to the Bynar’s home-world, the course intentionally crossed the data stream, allowing the enterprise to intercept and save the data.
As long as you can move faster than your data, you’re limited only by your transmitter and receiver’s sensitivity and data rates.
Of course this makes the plan dumb, but in a different way, because you don’t need a starship or even warp. If it takes you 6 months to transfer the data, slap a mirror or relay 3 light-months away and your data download will start the moment you stop transmitting. Increase the distance if you need a gap.
A pair of relays could bounce the signal back and forth repeatedly (receiving, error correcting and re-transmitting on at least one side to avoid degradation), giving you a theoretically infinite amount of data storage, to increase the capacity just move the endpoints further apart.
It’s dumb, but it would avoid needing a mobile computer with enough storage, and the engineering resources would be relatively modest.
16:00 I always thought they were storing the data on the starbase, which they could have stored there over various trips to the starbase. Transfering the data from the starbase to the enterprise also would work because the ship is docked and they have control of the enterprise systems during the upgrades.
This Dixie rant 😂😂❤
6:09 I was not expecting an Eyes Wide Shut reference.
18:42 I think the Bynars just don't think about being alone, and maybe Minuet would have been able to help Riker with the file. I actually don't think this or the Bynars getting the data onto the enterprise while docked at a starbase is a problem of logic for this episode.
Fun fact: the piano player was played by Jack Sheldon, who wrote and sang I'm Just a Bill, from Schoolhouse Rocks. He used to have a standing Thursday night engagement at Jax in Glendale, CA, where he would tell bawdy jokes and inevitably play I'm Just a Bill (I used to live in Glendale, and would go to see his show every so often…side fun fact: the bartender at Jax was Joe Mantegna's son's godfather; it was that kind of place).
This episode reminds me that the holodeck is gonna be awesome.
One of my favorite TNG episodes! Amazing score by Ron Jones, love the tension with the Starbase, Minuet is great, and the way the problem is solved is pure Trek. A classic.
When I hear you say “Bynar” I regrettably think of the characters in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: Bo-mar, Gir-mar and so on. Oops.