The Greatest Generation - Chaotic Bro (S1E19)

Episode Date: March 28, 2016

When Wesley Crusher (the boy?) begins his Starfleet entrance exams, he's got two things on his mind: overcoming his greatest fear, and overcoming a terrible Pee-wee Herman-style haircut. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Admiral Quinn and Lieutenant Commander Remmick are investigating a possible conspiracy, and pissing off the crew in the process. Is "The Riker Maneuver" mostly about testicular health? What is the punishment for Grand Theft Shuttlecraft? And just what the hell is a sher-RAHHHHD? It's our final episode before NPR syndication!

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I should be coming to speech. I think everyone just calls him Jake. We start this episode with Wesley bumping into a Sullen buddy in the hallway of the Enterprise who his name is Curland. Jake Curland? Yeah, I think I think everyone just calls him Jake. Yeah, he's upset because unlike Wesley, he did not get into the Starfleet entrance exam round robin. So this is a pretty Wesley Center episode.

And basically, the conflict that Wesley will be experiencing is that Starfleet Academy allows four people to compete for one spot every year. It's really confusing situation because it makes it seem like Starfleet Academy has an entering class of one and Wesley is competing for that one spot with four brilliant aliens from all over the United Federation of Planets. Clearly, hair isn't one of the metrics that the Academy looks at because right off the bat, Jake has got amazing hair. Like he's totally Patrick swazing out. And- Wesley's got more of like a puey haircut in this episode.

We can't know for sure, but I imagine Will Wheaton saw that he was gonna be in the A story and went out to get a haircut before the shoot. And I don't know, he looks like fresh out of the seat at supercuts. It's a little unfortunate. It's more pee-wish than he's ever been at super pee-wee. Soups be.

This show always turns into Star Trek Haircast. We might as well just rebrand around this hair theme that we've been pursuing. If anyone would like to buy ad space on the show, I think we definitely recommend stylus of all kinds. Great clips for hair, supercuts. Yeah. Anyways, no sooner has Wesley Beamed down to this planet that he's going to be testing on, then Edmoral Quinn and his at-tashay commander Remick have beamed up.

And Quinn is thrown his weight around early and often telling Picard that for reasons that he cannot explain, Remick is going to be going over the enterprise, bolt by bolt, leaving no stone unturned, trying to find out what is wrong on the enterprise. And that's like all of the explanation that he's willing to offer. Yeah, it's a tension that permeates the entire episode because in Picard's captain's log, he's like, yeah, me and Quinn are buds from back in the day. I'm actually really excited to have them on board. And as soon as he beams up, Quinn just big dogs the shit out of him.

Yeah, this is the second time we've seen an admiral pop onto the transporter pad and treat Picard like a real sniveling bitch. It's gonna be a trend, really. Yeah, which is crazy. Like he's a captain, yes, but he's also the most prestigious captain in the Starfleet, right? Sure

No one no one treats him that way It's like he has a huge skeleton in this closet and everyone knows about Yeah, well this episode we also find out that Wesley is 15 going on 16 He's turning 16 in a month and I don't know what the age of consent is in the federation. But you know, it's 16 and a lot of places on earth. Look, if the federation is cool with a ranged marriage, I know it's what they're willing to accept as far as age of consent. Right, but I sort of wonder if that's sort of when the bloom comes off the rose for Picard

and he starts looking for a younger side piece. I tell you what, you couldn't do better than Jake. As a fine-looking kid. Yeah. I mean, he's basically walking around the ship with a varsity letterman's jacket on. Yeah. Like, he's got that look. But do you think he has that victim psychology that Picard likes to exploit? Well, I think we're about to find out because Jake has a storyline here.

And some pretty clear daddy issues. Before we get too far from our hair discussion, I also just wanted to bring up Reikers hair in this episode, which seems to be also different. I'm wondering if they brought in the B team on hair and makeup for this because Riker is as close To Donald Trump as any human I have ever seen with his haircut in this episode Like Donald Trump has a incredibly strange hairdo like whatever you think about the man or his politics Like it'd have to admit that it's the most unique haircut you've ever seen. And Riker pretty much nails it, but in a nice, Auburn color in this episode.

A nice chestnut. So things kind of kick off. Wes gets started with his testing for Starfleet admissions, and he meets the pretty babe, the Vulcan, and the, what is it, Benzite, the alien Mordok that he's testing against? Yeah, yeah, and I think this Benzite guy qualifies as the most alien alien we've seen in the first season. Yeah, he's blue, he's wet, and he's vaping at all times.

Yeah, I guess like the thing that Billy Joel would have to keep his mouth harp in place. Yeah, he's got sort of like fishkill mouth and he sort of presses this vape pen up into his mouth to get it hit. I think it's a way of the show to sort of telegraph to us that he might have some compromised ethics or in like D&D parlance, he might be a chaotic bro. Is that one of the classifications in D&D chaotic bro? If you're using the beat pen to the degree that it's always on your person and basically in front of your face, like Neil Young playing a harmonica, then yeah, that's chaotic bro. Yeah, I always prefer a lawful bro, but I'll take a chaotic bro if I have to. Sure, sure.

but I'll take a chaotic bro if I have to. Sure, sure. So, so Wesley's up to that. Remnick starts, I'm gonna call him Remnick a million times. It's Remick. Yeah, I think it's Remick. Starts just kind of dicking around all over the ship, you know, like learing over data's shoulder while data's trying to work at ops and taking notes very conspicuously.

And data's like, dude, what the fuck do you want? Yeah, data who isn't bothered by anyone making fun of them at any point is alert by Remyk. And Riker gets a real being his bonnet about it. Remyk's gonna turn this ship upside down. Tries to complain to the captain and the captain's like, you just have to deal with it.

I'm pissed off about it too, man. You could tell Riker is really upset because he goes to his leaning wall. He's like, this Rhymek guy's really pissing me off and then he turns to the wall and just sort of like cozy's up to it. Yeah, Rhymeker does a lot of great physicality in this episode.

There's definitely a point where Rhymek like hauls him into the ready room and Rhymeker does the classic leg swing over the chair move. Yeah, the Riker maneuver. Yeah. You know, because if he sat down normally it would crush his prodigious sack. I think this was the first time we've seen it, right? Yeah, I think it might be the unveiling of the Riker maneuver.

So anyways, as as shit is popping off on the bridge, this kid Jake decides to go and do something rather rash at him. Yeah, he steals a shuttlecraft. He gets all but her about not getting into the academy and hops into a shuttlecraft knows enough to fly it out of the shuttle bay, but then as soon as he's out into space, he totally freaks out and it out of the shuttle bay, but then as soon as he's out into space, he totally freaks out and fingers out that he can't control it at all. Which I think is amazing because I would think the ability to fly it out of a cargo bay door would be an amount of skill greater than navigating open space, but evidently not. Well, much like the 9-11 hijackers, he was interested in learning to take off, but evidently not. Well, much like the 9-11 hijackers. He was interested in learning to take off,

but not so much in learning to land. Yeah, never forget. So Remix on the bridge, and he gets to see that a shuttlecraft has been hijacked, and is just crawling up a card's ass about this. Like, isn't that area secured? Not now, Remyn. How is this possible, Captain?

You've got kids' deal in shuttle crafts? Pretty legitimate question, actually. Yeah, how is he? How is he? A non-enlisted, non-cruemember who lives on this ship able to just walk into the shuttle bay, get on a shuttle, and bounce. Yeah, and I think it's a little more believable

because we don't see it. Like we're basically on the bridge when he gets the signal that a shuttle has been stolen. So this figure skater is in a shuttle craft, cruising around, and then he loses control almost immediately and in- Does not stick that triple-let. No.

He almost south-cows it into the planet's atmosphere. But not before Picard just sort of talks him down. He's Picard soothingly hails him and says, look buddy, you gotta aim at the planet. Aim it right for the planet and then build up some speed and then pull up, that's all you need to do. And no one on the bridge seems to believe this is a viable plan.

They. Data has already announced that this kid is dead meat. So. And I think the, I think the healing frequency is still on. So Jake can probably hear every other bridge group person go, oh yeah, this guy's fucked. Meanwhile, the one guy, the one guy you respect the most is telling you basically to commit suicide

according to your understanding of the situation. He steers toward the planet and bounces off of the atmosphere. I think it's interesting that as they're coming up with plans to save him, like they go down the checklist, like we can't beam them back, we can't get them with a tractor beam. Right. Like because he's out of range. Right, and it's been like 15 seconds since he took off. But at no point do they decide to move the ship.

Right, yeah. Like moving the ship is not an option. Like we can't move closer to the shuttlecraft. That shuttlecraft is, I guess, too fast. I don't know. I thought that was weird. It was a very convenient, no solution problem, you know. Yeah. So, he regains control and evidently flies back into the shuttle bay.

Yeah, so he didn't know how to land. Huh. Yeah. It's a tiny, pretty one with soft, really bass. Are you not finding it within yourself? Stand up, tell the truth. You don't deserve the wealth that the universe has. So that little crisis was averted, and this was, this is like a moment you see Remix, shovel-faced facade sort of, sort of crack a little bit. Yeah, he does a full-on fist pump. Yeah.

Yeah. Pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. Yeah. So despite seeing the competence of the bridge crew here, Remic continues poking around. And there's a great scene where it's like kind of shot reverse shot of Remic interviewing data and then wharf and then the doctor and then the captain where it's like

It's like he asks a question. They answer he asked another question. It cuts back. It's like the next crew member and You know, it's all just kind of building up to this confrontation with Picard where Picard is just Fucking at the end of his rope and he's like the only thing I'm guilty of is allowing the Sharad to go on so long. Pretty fucking great pronunciation of Sharad. I think that's the first of maybe 18 different pronunciations of that word throughout the series. I feel like I got my $5 worth already though. Yeah.

So, Picard storms into Admiral Quinn's quarters and says that this this Remix shit has gone on long enough and he's pretty sick of it. Remix wanders into the room and informs Quinn that he basically hasn't found a speck of dust on the bridge crew other than they're all real good pals. So he can find no fault with how Picard has operated the Enterprise. Despite the fact that he does identify a time when Picard violated the prime directive, only one,

which I felt like it was a short count. We're 18 episodes in and I think this is the first episode that actually refers to other episodes. Yeah, and it's an episode that is setting the table for a future episode as well, which I feel like is, I don't know, it feels like it doesn't quite have its own self-contained plot, but it definitely held my interest because of those things. I get felt a little bit more modern as an episode because it felt very connective. Yeah, yeah.

One area of improvement though, was that scene between Picard and Quinn where Picard walks into Quinn's quarters. There is maybe the biggest mark I've ever seen on the carpet. Really? Yeah. Like they do the establishing shot a little wider biggest mark I've ever seen on the carpet. Really? Yeah. Like they do the establishing shot, a little wider than I think,

than I think they intended. And you can see Picard approach Quinn's desk, and then Quinn walks around the desk and is totally pinging the mark on the floor as he does his turnaround. Like, it's pretty great. Yeah, you know, there was, there's another scene in this episode in the holodeck where Wesley is like leaning against a wall and you get close enough

the wall to see that that yellow grid is just tape on like really low grade particle board. Like you see the texture in the, in the, in the plywood that they've used to construct the holodex set, and it really broke the illusion for me. Like they probably told Will Wheaton, look, you can't put your full weight against the wall, like Riker does against his leaning wall. You get a, you get a really good grip.

We have not reinforced it quite as much as that room if off the bridge. But a wharf wanders in. And this is actually like a pretty, I think it's the first scene where we've really had a deep character moment for wharf. The first time he's had more than two lines, continuously. And Wesley asked him about this psych test that's coming up and And the psych test basically is notorious because it tests a cadet against The thing that they fear the most and Wesley's really worried about it and asks warfa a warrior how they could test him and

Warf has a great line. I thought there was nothing that could frighten a Klingon warrior. Only fools have no fear. I felt like it was a good moment. Yeah, it was. Uh, I mean, I think one of the greatest fears Wesley's probably already overcome, which is like, what do you do when you get a really terrible haircut?

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O'Neill Ross and Kerry, available on MaximumFun.org. Back to the meeting with Quin and Captain Picard and Remyk. Quin sort of confides in Picard that he really needed to reassure himself of his trust in Picard and the crew because something has infiltrated Starfleet. Some in Sidious Force is at work in the command structure of Starfleet. What he's decided is to bring all of the trustworthy officers he can around him. So he's offering Picard an increase in rank to Admiral and the job of being the commandant of Starfleet Academy. And Picard is pretty taken aback by this offer. He's definitely going to give it some serious consideration.

Because it's like the Catholic church moving one of their priests to a different parish, to basically be ultimate parish. Yeah, yeah, come back to the Vatican. Just a limitless supply of 16-year-olds for Picard. God. Could you imagine? Yeah. Shaping young minds indeed.

So Picard's got to think on this a while. He doesn't give him an answer right away. He's like, huh. All right, we'll give me the evening. Yeah. I'm going to consider your kind offer. I'm going to mull it over. So meanwhile, we're back with Wesley on the surface

as he's taking these tests and these tests are like Put these dots into this big cube of places for the dots to go and Like a really bad iPhone game. Yeah, it's a I mean we're made to believe that there's some Yeah, I mean, we're made to believe that there's some mental gymnastics happening here, but all these tests are pretty inscrutable to us, save the psychological test. Right. So, they finish all basically the written and the math portion of the test, and all that's left is the psychological exam. We're told by the professor that everyone is extremely close in terms of score, so I think we all understand the stakes going in to the psych exam.

And if Wesley nails this, I think we think his chances are pretty good at getting in. So Wesley is led to the room where the psych exam will take place and Mordok walks out. Are you alright? I will be. He looks like someone stole his vape pen. He is real sad. His hands look bruised for some reason. And Wes is like, hey bud. Yeah, I didn't notice that his pinky on this alien, the pinky is the biggest finger on the hand.

Oh, I didn't get that no It's always weird when they do something to the hands because it's not something you notice until they're like the only thing in frame Yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah, he's definitely it's definitely a whiff of death. Yeah, so this only serves to make West even more nervous about what's gonna happen. So he's led into the room where Mordock just was. And... It's the cheapest looking room that ever was or ever will be a set in Star Trek. It's like literally just a bunch of plywood with a single coat of paint on it, not really plausibly connected to the floor in any way. You see the seams and all the...ats. Yeah, it is so cheap looking. Yeah, and

it sort of serves to elevate the tension. I mean, once you get past the comedy of what it looks like, it's just a chair and a room and Wesley's fears. So we're in there a little bit and Wesley's like, all right, I'm ready to go. He sits there for like a couple of beats and then he hears an explosion outside the door. And he's like, well, I guess they're not gonna do the test. So he rolls out of the room and walks down the hall. Here's another explosion and some screams. And he opens up the door and he sees,

shit has gone down in this room. There's a big pipe that's broken, and a bunch of steam is coming out, and two people are crushed inside, and they're screaming at him. Well, one of them is crushed, and the other is just cowering behind an eye beam. Right, there's an older guy who's been sprayed

with a fire extinguisher, and he's got a big heavy pipe on him. And then like, fat Seth MacFarland is over in the corner, just whimpering, and totally beside himself, unable to affect any positive improvement in the situation. Yeah, yeah. So Wes is like using his 15 year old strength to, you know, like you hear stories of people

in crazy situations, like little girls lifting cars off of their dads when they're changing attire and the jack breaks. Like, you know, he's filled with super strength as he picks up this pipe and drags the pipe guy out of the room all the while, the scared guy is just screaming at west like he's the the Hudson from aliens of the of the situation so west yeah west drags the guy out the door closes and uh... and his professor is outside yeah to greet him and and west is freaked out. He says,

Officer Chang, Mr. Wesley. It's all right. It's funny, the guy whose legs are theoretically crushed stands up and brushes some but not very much of the flocking off of his jacket and is like, thanks a lot. Later. Yeah, great job by that guy.

Yeah. I like acting within acting, you know? Yeah, totally. It's a complex. It's a good business. Yeah. The results are in and of all of the cadets, Mordok, the Benzite had the edge in terms of overall score and his granted admission to Starfleet Academy.

So Wesley is pretty bummed out, but he's encouraged to give it a shot next year when they open up admissions for one more person. It's just the Academy. Yeah, they must not need to staff many starships at this point. Yeah. So back on the enterprise, Picard is wandering down the hall in his dress uniform, which I feel like they changed this later in the series. But the dress uniform in these early episodes is literally like leggings and a very long dress like top, which

looks real strange on Picard. It's sort of like when you when you see someone wearing a Utilic Hill out in the wild. Doesn't look right. Yeah, it's like, I mean, I see what you are going for there, but doesn't hang together. Yeah, really doesn't. He pumps into Jake in the hallway and gives him some kind of words of wisdom that for all of Jake's freaking out, he kept his wits about him when that shuttle was about the crash into the planet. He should at least realize that he has some inner strength from that moment. And then that was so weird. Like I really sell your potential when you hijacked a piece of gear from the flagship

of the Federation and almost killed yourself. Like get back on the horse, but I thought it was cool though. I mean like he says to remake though, like, you know, young men make stupid decisions all the time. Like we can't obviously let him just off scot free, but we also can't like hold that against him for the rest of his life or whatever. So I thought that was cool. Like he lets Reiker, you know, do some discipline on him, you know, who knows what that means, but.

Cleaning his holodeck after he's done. Yeah, so maybe they're playing like good cup, bad cup. I feel like this is the first episode where you really get that benevolent Picard that we come to know basically for the rest of the series. The man who is respected, unequivocally, the guy that the entire bridge crew would put it all in the line for. You get to hear, during that interrogation scene earlier, you get to hear everyone talk

about him and it's sort of like character development through other characters. Yeah, I think the penultimate scene is he bumps into Wesley in the observation lounge and they talk about the entrance exam and Wesley is really ashamed that he didn't get in and Picard once again reassures a young member of his crew and even confides in westerat he didn't in fact past the first time he uh... attempted the starflade entrance exam

that gives him a lot of hope he's like holy shit are you serious? yeah pickard scolds him he's like don't ever tell anyone that so west has a bunch of pickard secrets to keep at this point. Yeah, yeah. This may be the least worst. Yeah. This was another episode where a girl clearly hits on Wes and Wes doesn't know what to do with it.

Yeah. Like when he's doing the testing, there's a pretty cool chick down there who's clearly giving him some vibes. I can't imagine what it would be like to have things come so easily. I have to push every step of the way. Oh no, Oliana, it doesn't come that easily. Wes basically tells Mordok how great it is that a girl is interested in him and yet does

nothing. Yeah, there's even a scene where she is introducing herself to him and he's like, okay, I'm gonna go over here now and then go over and talk to Mordok. I think he's more interested in being cool than having a girlfriend because he sees Mordok and he sees the vape pen. Like, you know, if you're a 15-year-old trying to find someone to model yourself after, it's probably chaotic bro at that point. to model yourself after, it's probably chaotic bro at that point. The only other scene that we haven't talked about at this point is when Picard tells

Riker that he's been offered an admiralty and a spot at the Academy and Riker gets a huge grin on his face. And it's clear that Riker is excited about the prospect of being the captain of the Enterprise until Picard tells him like, no, no, no, I'm not actually going to take the job. It's like the first time Riker has had this option that didn't involve Captain Picard beaming himself into space under an alien's influence. Yeah, this constant teasing of Riker with the prospect of becoming Captain, it happens pretty frequently in this first season. They spent a lot of time on it in the first season, which is a crazy thing to think about, given that there are seven seasons of this show. Like, they really have to lay off after this, because it's going to start to look pathetic

if you can't advance in the ranks. Yeah, I mean, we also get, I mean, you alluded to it before, this idea of a conspiracy within the federation. There's that part of it is unresolved. Like, Quinn and Remick beam off, but Quinn gives him a gift pickard in the transport room a pretty strong warning about forces conspiring that they can't

control. And so that's a fun little tease for what's gonna happen later. Totally. Ben. Yes Adam. As you were watching this episode, did you find a drunk Shimoda? Granamon! Granamon! I sure did. So drunk Shimoda is obviously our award for any member of the crew or cast. Having a great time or just doing something that seems like a drunk guy move. And I'll award mine this episode to Commander Remick. Just for one bonehead move, movie pulls, which is after all of this hassle that he's put the crew through, and to the extent that the captain

of the ship has gone to Remick's boss and complained about it, and the boss has been like, yeah, you were kind of a dick, Remick. Remick is about to leave the room and he's like, my tour in the Inspector General's office will be up in six months when I'm finished. This is where I'd like to serve, sir. And for car just smolders as he scowls at Remick. Like Remick completely missed the mark with when the right moment to unload that little gem was.

Ben, I completely agree and for the same reason. The same exact reason was the thing I wrote in my note. It felt like a, Remick is like using that seduction community strategy of negging someone. It feels like the entire episode is Remick negging. And then at the end, he's like, oh yeah, by the way,

I'd love to be here. It's a surprise that the costume department didn't have him in a fedora with a giant feather in it. Yeah, exactly, but they have a pretty strong rule about one bro per episode and that was clearly more doc. So yeah, we are in complete agreement. Drunk Shimoda is Remick, the Quagmire-looking Lieutenant Commander. I am the future's ball. There are ball lights. What do we have coming up next time?

Next episode, the next unbeatable episode is numbered 19, Heart of Glory. Or I guess number 20 if you're using proper, numbering technique. Lieutenant Worf is torn between his loyalty to the enterprise and his fierce Klingon heritage when two Klingon fugitives take over the ship. Now that's a description that does not jog my memory at all other than a scene where I remember them like pulling little pieces of their uniforms apart and making a gun out of them

That is seared in my you know Seven or eight year old memory if this is that episode I also do remember that part they pull like the little little horn off of the boot And they make a gun out of a belt buckle. It's a real Macroober type of scene where they're like making something big out of a bunch of little parts. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I feel like I feel like there were probably times when I was a child when I would attempt to secrete various weapon components around my my person so that they wouldn't be detected based on this scene alone. be detected based on this scene alone. So like a rubber band and a paper clip. And like when you take apart those little click

big pins like with the spring and little piece of plastic inside, you'd squirrel those away on your person. Yeah, exactly. One of them's in my shoe, you know, the rubber bands around my wrist like what? This is just my bracelet. You were a bad man, Ben. Yeah.

Bad man. The reception for this one was mixed, but mostly positive. Overly historyonic was the way they described one part of this episode. Oh, they. And a forgettable mess was another short review. I don't know. Well, I've forgotten a lot of it, but I remember that one part, I think. Most of the receptions I'm reading for episodes in the first season are mixed to negative. And if there anything like Remick, they're eventually going to come around and start loving

the show again in probably a really creepy way. All this nagging in the receptions. They just want a bang Star Trek. Why don't you love me back? You should love me. Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to that one. Yeah, me too. I tell you what, let's adjourn and come back next time with a new episode of Star Trek the Next Generation to talk about.

That's a great plan. That's a plan we've had from the start. If you ever want to reach out to either of us, we're both talking on the Twitters. I'm at Cut for Time. I'm at Benjamin R, AHR. And we share a great hashtag called Greatest Gen. There you can talk to the other 10 fans who listen to this show. And interact with our aging World War II veteran community. in there you can talk to the other 10 fans who listen to this show and interact with our aging World War II veteran community.

I've been seeing some World War I stuff on there as well. Really? So that's pretty exciting. I'm sure they appreciate our company. Yeah. Old people are always looking for a companionship in. Star Trek stuff. Yeah.

We also have to thank Dark Materia for our opening and interstitial music. You can find the Picard song just about everywhere online. You can also send us an email, where it drunkshamoda at gmail.com. We're starting to get some emails there. Thanks for those. Alright, I've been Adam Pranika. We'll see you next time where we take you through another exciting episode of Star Trek the Next Generation and do it in the least shameful way possible. See ya! I'll make it so, make it so.