"I thought it was Mark Twain for a second" That one hurt, right in my brain hole.
@battlesat6
3 ай бұрын
Jack London wrote the call of the wild and white fang.
@KingApeiron
3 ай бұрын
Gods I could disappear into those books when I was younger.
@SJHFoto
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact-Jack London is exactly 100 years older than I, and Jane Austen is exactly 200 years! As of 2017, I outlived both of them
@elessartelcontar9415
3 ай бұрын
My favorite by London is a short story called To Build A Fire. It is poignant and makes one feel like they are the ones suffering the misadventures of the character. Truly heartbreaking.
@SJHFoto
3 ай бұрын
@@elessartelcontar9415 I remember that. I actually named one of my artsy photo submissions after that story about 25 years ago! (As I was just starting my company)
@erikbjelke4411
3 ай бұрын
@@elessartelcontar9415 Well, and also realizing pretty much from the get-go this guy was too arrogant to live. He thought he understood where he was and what he was getting into, but he did not. He knew just enough survival to get himself killed.
@rikturscale8205
3 ай бұрын
Jerry Hardin, who played Clemens, was so well received as Mark Twain in this episode he created a one man show where he played Clemens. He told me it was a life saver when acting jobs were getting farther apart, he could schedule his OMP and he knew that his Star Trek fans would show up to see the play. This part he played continued to pay dividends years after he was in Star Trek. He enjoyed how many "young people" would come to the play after being introduced to the part in Star Trek.
@redmatter
3 ай бұрын
That’s very interesting, I never knew that. Hardin would go on to play the character “Deep Throat” in season one of The X-Files, which many people know him from that role.
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
Val Kilmer later did this and I'd love to see the performance!
@flippinLOFI
3 ай бұрын
I remember watching during my youth and loving every second of his voice and performance. It felt so genuine to the era. So here I am in '24 somewhat baffled that some would find it grating.
@AaronLitz
3 ай бұрын
@@redmatter He'd start playing Deep Throat just a year later.
@AaronLitz
3 ай бұрын
@@flippinLOFI Cassie is maybe the 4th or 5th person I've seen on KZitem who finds Twain in this episode to be unbearably grating and have absolutely no idea who he is. It's a generational thing; Millennials and younger have just never been exposed to portrayals of Twain before. By the time this episode first aired when I was 16, I had already seen Mark Twain portrayed on _several_ different TV shows throughout the '80s, and he was instantly recognizable to me (and to the intended audience in general) the moment he showed up, in both appearance and voice. It really feels like awareness of the past has just died; if it was pre-Internet, it's almost like it just doesn't exist to younger people today.
@dbsagacious
3 ай бұрын
Cassie may be the only person in history to say "well, guess we'll have to kill Mark Twain" LMAO
@ChuckGarcia-p1j
3 ай бұрын
That floored me. Cassie you made me laugh.
@moviebuff174
3 ай бұрын
It was a literal laugh out loud moment.
@doneisenbarth
3 ай бұрын
If this is a correct representation of Twain’s behavior, I actually kind of doubt it.
@amehak1922
3 ай бұрын
Eyes widened, she said it so caviler 😂
@davidperkins6752
3 ай бұрын
possibly, but if that is in fact an accurate portrayal of Twain's voice, then probably not!
@Astromechy
3 ай бұрын
Cassie, when the old man with the cough was talking about a "49er", it is slang used in that time and refers to a miner who prospected during the California Gold Rush of 1849.
@gregweatherup9596
3 ай бұрын
And the California football team is in turn named after them.
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
Beverly Hills, San Francisco all the goollld in california...
@jamesbeach7405
3 ай бұрын
@gregweatherup9596 well specifically the San Francisco 49ers.
@Lia-zw1ls7tz7o
3 ай бұрын
I was just about to make the same comment.
@bobbuethe1477
2 ай бұрын
"In a cavern, in a canyon Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, forty-niner And his daughter, Clementine. "Oh my darling, oh my darling Oh my darling, Clementine You are lost and gone forever Dreadful sorry, Clementine."
@breadfan7t
3 ай бұрын
Cassie: "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second." Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Sam Clemons.
@MikeB12800
3 ай бұрын
It is Twain!! Right?
@kbmosher
3 ай бұрын
@@MikeB12800 Yup
@alvinhelms2170
3 ай бұрын
Mr. Clemens would have called it a 'pen name', not a pseudonym.
@LordLOC
3 ай бұрын
@@MikeB12800 Yes, Samuel Clemons was his actual name. Mark Twain as mentioned was his ghost name/pseudonym.
@tofersiefken
3 ай бұрын
Also, the bellboy is Jack London (a famous author) who did write about Alaska.
@malachimcleod
2 ай бұрын
"This increasingly hypothetical someone would not be me." Always loved that line.
@jefff3886
3 ай бұрын
After this episode I did some historical research and found that Jack London and Mark Twain were indeed in San Francisco at about the same time. The real Jack London was pretty much as portrayed in this episode; just a hustler kind of guy doing odd jobs and scratching around trying to make a living. At the time, Twain was famous and London was unknown. Who knows? The real Twain and London may have indeed crossed paths at some point, with Twain offering the young London some advice that set him on a path that led to "Call of The Wild" and "White Fang." "Truth is stranger than fiction."
@davidoliver2418
3 ай бұрын
When she called Samuel Clemens, Colonal Sanders, I nearly spat my coffee! 🤣
@captmurdock
3 ай бұрын
Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Clemens/Twain, became so enamored of the character in this story that he developed a one-man show of himself as Clemens/Twain and toured the country after this story was aired.
@MagnusDarcrider
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for that. I couldn’t remember if this came before or after. Jerry Hardin was a gentleman, and most famous to my generation for his pivotal role in The X-Files.
@gfox9295
2 ай бұрын
Loved Deep Throat in season 1 of the X-Files. I got into that show during HS (after STTNG had ended) and it was the summer in between s1 and s2... a friend online sent me VHS tapes of all of s1 and I caught up super quick (it was probably my first binging experience, really!). Got me prepped for season 2 by Labor Day!
@token1371
3 ай бұрын
*Cassie's villain origin to protect the mission:* " I guess we'll have to kill him!" 11:49 😂 *Note to self:* Don't eavesdrop on Cassie.
@slytheringingerwitch
3 ай бұрын
Ha ha.
@amehak1922
3 ай бұрын
Exactly
@hellomark1
2 ай бұрын
Especially if you're Mark Twain, she'll look for any reason to have you done in :)
@nessuno_
3 ай бұрын
I literally slapped my head when Cassie said "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second."
@hellomark1
2 ай бұрын
I think it was this episode that taught me his name was just a pseudonym.
@jameswilkerson4412
2 ай бұрын
@@hellomark1I learned that from a children’s book that explained how he got it from depth measurements when he worked a boat on the Mississippi
@garymussell6543
3 ай бұрын
Twain died in 1910 but he lived long enough to have his voice recorded. Yes, that is how his voice sounded.
@charlie.on.youtube
3 ай бұрын
@@garymussell6543 came into the world with Halley’s Comet and departed this world with it.
@scfm1684
3 ай бұрын
Or at least that's how the recording device made it sound.
@turbopokey
3 ай бұрын
According to historians there were no surviving recordings of Twain’s voice. He played around with recording on some wax recording cylinders, which were new technology at the time but he didn’t like them(supposedly) and got rid of them and the recording equipment. There was a neighbor of his who was a young actor that was good with impressions of various people including Twain, whom he was decent friends with, and his voice WAS recorded while doing an impression. There was another actor, Hal Holbrook that did a impressionistic interview in 1961(imitating what he thought Twain could have sounded like) and that version sounds EXACTLY like what this actor in star trek sounded like so I’m figuring he based his performance on that ‘61 version. There wasn’t an internet back in the early 90s when Startrek nxtgen was made for anyone to look up stuff like what Twain would have sounded like(since there wasn’t anything) so Holbrooks performance was probably the best thing that actor had to study on what to sound like.
@TrekBeatTK
3 ай бұрын
Theodore Roosevelt had a similarly creaky voice.
@RetroRobotRadio
3 ай бұрын
Of course that may have just been his voice when he was really old...
@Tantalus010
3 ай бұрын
In case anybody is wondering what was said in French at the poker table, The poker player (who was totally NOT a Cardassian) said: My parents were from Bourgon. Data's response was: Then we are almost brothers.
@MundusTransit
3 ай бұрын
the poker player did nothing wrong
@Aeroldoth3
3 ай бұрын
I wonder if that Frenchman's "ducat" inspired the poker player later on somehow...
@reactions5783
3 ай бұрын
@@Aeroldoth3 What a Gul 😂
@mrwayne6277
3 ай бұрын
It could just be me but I just think what the poker player needed was a good tailor
@jamesbeach7405
3 ай бұрын
Attention french workers.
@Peaceforall20111
3 ай бұрын
Again, thank you for your authentic enjoyment of the show. I hate when people fake it and appreciate you not insulting our intelligence
@MrGlenspace
3 ай бұрын
I got to see Patrick Stewart on New Year’s Eve perform a one man show of a Christmas carol. He did the show on a break from Star Trek. It was fantastic and truly showed his range.
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
Back then, you simply did not get to be a British TV and movie actor without putting in serious lengthy work in theaters first. By the time he got to America to work on some probably-doomed science fiction sequel series, he'd earned his acting stripes in the most disciplined career path for acting on the planet.
@vidarvaggen
2 ай бұрын
Oh gosh I would have loved to see him on the stage. He's one of a kind.
@CaptainQ2607
3 ай бұрын
Jack London (the bellhop) was another famous writer who wrote White Fang and the Call of the Wild.
@Bnio
3 ай бұрын
That's one of the little grace notes of this episode I have always loved since it first aired, that Mark Twain and Jack London may have casually met one day and Twain gave London inspiration to write. And write he did! He passed in his early 40s but left a huge amount of high-quality work for us to savor.
@CallegriaofSoulbound
3 ай бұрын
Bless you for knowing that it was making me itch thinking no one knew it.
@jameswilkerson4412
2 ай бұрын
My sister and I looked at each other and laughed when he introduced himself; I think we’d both read The Call of the Wild in middle school
@chrisedwards7095
3 ай бұрын
"In a cavern in a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter Clementine>"
@ghostbeetle2950
3 ай бұрын
Hey, that's exactly what I said, um, sang!XD I guess genius thinks alike!;)
@marleybob3157
3 ай бұрын
Cassie: "I thought it was Mark Twain for a second..." Me: "Wellllllllllll...."
@Wizardofgosz
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, wouldn't it have been cool if it were Mark Twain?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
@penguin82875
3 ай бұрын
@@Wizardofgosz it was Mark Twain
@Wizardofgosz
3 ай бұрын
@@penguin82875 Yes I know. Thanks.
@billparker244
3 ай бұрын
"Circumstances demand that I take you into my confidence." I wish I could talk like that
@MrX-hz2hn
3 ай бұрын
One need but to choose to do so.
@StarkRG
2 ай бұрын
Step 1: stop caring whether anyone thinks you're silly. Step 2: live your life however the hell you want (within ethics and morality, of course).
@AtlatlMan
2 ай бұрын
Just do. I do all the time. Some people get confused but its a hoot.
@Hoeech
Ай бұрын
@@AtlatlMan - If they do, then they aren't worthy of your confidence or your conversation
@Kamenari37
3 ай бұрын
I'm a fan of Twain, which was his penname btw. His actual birth name was Samuel Langhorn Clemens. In terms of his personality, he was rather notorious as being a long-spoken and very gruff individual when it came to his ideas. He also had a particular disdain for the human species as a whole and when it came to his witticisms he put most people off. I imagine the episode did a pretty good job of portraying him as the average individual would have seen him and interacted.
@leytonjay
3 ай бұрын
As a Brit I'm not an expert in American literature but Samuel Clements was the real name of author Mark Twain. The bellboy Jack London also became an author, I think he wrote about all sorts of jobs and adventures he had, interesting people he met, etc. Presumably inspired by these incredible events!
@Nergalsama01
3 ай бұрын
Twain's every sentence could be prefaced by "I do declare!"
@benjauron5873
3 ай бұрын
Mind blower: In the season three finale, when Picard was commiserating because he didn't know whether human civilization would survive the Borg attack, and he cried to Guinan about it, and Guinan tried to console him... Though she didn't say it, she knew all along that Picard and humanity would prevail, because she knew that he had not yet gone back in time to meet her in 19th Century San Francisco, which he couldn't do if he was dead or assimilated. Mind blown...
@jameskelly3502
3 ай бұрын
BIGGER Mind blower. In season 3, episode 6 Booby Trap. Guinan tells Geordi that she's attracted to bald men Geordi asks why? Guinan: "Maybe because a bald man was kind to me once, when I was hurting. He took care of me" That man was Picard.
@bigdream_dreambig
3 ай бұрын
@@jameskelly3502 That's the one that really gets me because it proves that the writers planned this adventure and kept it in their back pocket for almost 3 seasons. That's a lot of restraint for a show that's more-or-less episodic!
@benjauron5873
3 ай бұрын
@@jameskelly3502 🤯
@memnarch129
3 ай бұрын
@@bigdream_dreambig MAYBE. It could of been, because of the Episode order, that they meant to leave it ambigous. When watching that episode back in the 90s most thought it was Picard but was some incident years before them being on Enterprise. Technically right but most of us thought it was in the 23 century. When they wrote these episodes they likely just decided to have quite a few payoffs to little bits of lore dropped here and there.
@vrenak
3 ай бұрын
@@jameskelly3502 And tie ins like this is why writing of TNG era trek is sooo much better than current trek, that can't even be consistent inside the same episode.
@havok6280
3 ай бұрын
Although I know it probably won't win any Patreon polls, I wish Cassie would watch DS9. She'd love Sisko, Dax, Bashir, and Odo...
@dumahim
3 ай бұрын
Seriously. I hope she can be convinced to watch DS9 before moving on to the newer movies.
@kobayashimaru8114
3 ай бұрын
It's too bad DS9 never got the movie treatment otherwise she would have.
@eugeneshadwell6596
3 ай бұрын
I doubt it will happen. This is primarily a movie reaction channel and Cassie is watching the STTNG episodes to get an idea about the characters before re-starting viewing the movies with 'Generations'. You're right though, it'd be a shame if she doesn't do DS9...
@dupersuper1938
3 ай бұрын
That - even more than TOS and TNG - is NOT a show one would really enjoy watching only 4 - 8 episodes per season...
@chuckshingledecker2216
3 ай бұрын
@@eugeneshadwell6596 Honestly, I hope she skips Generations and only watched First Contact and Insurrection as the first and last TNG movies do an incredible discervice to the characters. I'm sure she will watch them all - but it's really sad how the movies did TNG dirty.
@Flowerbite
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact (no spoilers): almost the entire cast of TNG did voices for the cartoon show Gargoyles. Brent Spiner played Puck, the trickster from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the voice he’s using as Puck in this episode is the same he uses in Gargoyles 🖤
@rafetizer
3 ай бұрын
Gargoyles was pretty good
@quwykxz
3 ай бұрын
@@rafetizer 99% of the animated shows of today and the last couple of decades will never be even half as good as Gargoyles.
@Cau_No
3 ай бұрын
I also binged that show, when it was on. Jonathan Frakes as Xanatos and Marina Sirtis as Demona. Titania (the role the woman read) was voiced by Kate Mulgrew.
@3Rayfire
3 ай бұрын
@@Cau_No Xanatos is easily one of the most charismatic villains animated media has ever produced, smooth like silk with a knife in it. Demona is a little closer to Marina Sirtis than Deanna is. Demona is so infuriating because she really does cause all her own problems. One hot Gargoyle though.
@amehak1922
3 ай бұрын
@Cau_No when Janeway's holographic boyfriend asks her if she's the fair folk's Queen, it's a reference to her Gargoyles role as Titania.
@kelaarin
3 ай бұрын
I still amuses me, that in the scene where they're in the boarding house talking, they all look so uncomfortable in their 19th century clothing...except Picard, who looks perfectly at ease.
@bigdream_dreambig
3 ай бұрын
To be fair, their outfits are all very formal and stiff, unlike his.
@mcbikeman5673
3 ай бұрын
because he spent more time on the holodeck than he lets on
@JusBidniss
3 ай бұрын
The enterprising young bell hop was celebrated author Jack London, who would have been 17 in 1893. London would become enamored of the Alaskan frontier, writing such classics as _White Fang_ and _The Call of the Wild._
@troyhoneck520
3 ай бұрын
"I thought that was Mark Twain for a second"🤔... 🤣🤣🤣
@HemlockRidge
3 ай бұрын
In 1849 the California Gold Rush started. The gold was found at Sutter's Mill near Coloma CA. The miners who traveled there were called "49ers". Yes that's why San Francisco's NFL team are called the "49ers".
@One_foot_in_the_Grave
3 ай бұрын
LMFAO 😂 mr Colonel Sanders, that's Mark Twain my dear, Samuel Clemens was his real name LOL
@BubbaCoop
3 ай бұрын
"Well, I guess we'll have to kill him"
@ADragon-gi9mr
3 ай бұрын
He looks like KFC
@James_Ford4815
3 ай бұрын
And you got it wrong she said Saunders lol
@Arrownawt
3 ай бұрын
Its been 30 years and my Mom still doesn't grasp how Data can have 2 heads at the same time. She needs Doc Brown form Back to the Future to draw her a diagram 😅
@Cau_No
3 ай бұрын
Basically, Data's head now is 500 years older than the rest of his body. So is the watch Mark Twain kept on him at the end. (It seems, Sam Clemens understood the time paradox good enough, he even wrote a time-jump story before, the one mentioned in this episode)
@StormsparkPegasus
3 ай бұрын
This is really simple as far as time travel stories go. I hate to think how she's react to the River Song arc in Doctor Who.
@JoeCommenter-bl4su
3 ай бұрын
Some people just aren't built for those kind of thoughts. I suppose they learn different things growing up and without that formative interest they don't put together the higher level nitty pickys. It's like how I noped out of math in middle school and thus will never be an accountant but I'm lots good at other stuff.
@stargazer1682
3 ай бұрын
@@StormsparkPegasus Oh geez, just the Regeneration part of DW would wrinkle her brain.
@lelouchlives8930
3 ай бұрын
She's just not thinking 4th dimentionally.
@smadaf
3 ай бұрын
William Boyett (1927-2004), who in Part II here plays the policeman who confronts Riker, also played the police detective in the first Dixon Hill episode of _TNG,_ "The Big Goodbye", who tries to arrest Hill for the murder of Jessica Bradley. He was a regular in _Adam-12_ (1968-1975), where he played Reed's & Malloy's sergeant, "Mac" MacDonald.
@KingApeiron
3 ай бұрын
This episode plays out like an episode of Doctor Who and I love it so much.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
It's more a rehash of "City on the Edge of Forever".
@jameswilkerson4412
2 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiveras she points out
@robertpollard7681
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact the actor that played mark twain was so interested in the character and later created a one man show about him
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
He was also in a Season One episode.
@cypher515
3 ай бұрын
"I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" From what I understand, the man was Ornery. As. Eff. :P ("The Adventures of Mark Twain", a 1985 Claymation film, actually leans into this fact.)
@Bnio
3 ай бұрын
I think Cassie caught the essence of what's off about this impression: the shouting. I can see why he's doing it in the salon with Guinan because he's speaking to the whole room, but please please tell me that Clemons at least knew volume control in real life. I think this is a case of a director unwilling to tell the renowned guest actor to tone it down a skosh.
@quwykxz
3 ай бұрын
That clay-mation film is actually REALLY good, but it also has some REALLY creepy visuals, considering that it was maketed for young children. I peronally know a few people, who are adults now, but saw the movie as kids, and it scared the piss out of them (literally, in one case), and who still refuse to re-watch that film, because it terrified them so much.
@SyzygyNoon
3 ай бұрын
@@quwykxzI remember liking that film a lot as a kid, but was surprised at how creepy it was when I saw it as an adult.
@Rycel2001
3 ай бұрын
@@quwykxz *"Welcome to the Mysterious Stranger!"* "Who are you?" ~"An aaaangeeellll..."~
@Treffaut
3 ай бұрын
I grew up near Hannibal. I always took it that he was a notorious tease and grump, but at least some contemporaries thought it was funny. He was a touring attraction for a reason!
@alancockrell6002
3 ай бұрын
Jerry Hardin played Mark Twain. He's still alive at 94.
@LostButMakingGoodTime
2 ай бұрын
“Aye-aye-aye” is Canadian for, “Are you f-ing kidding me?” 😂
@FiveZeroes.
3 ай бұрын
I love that you're getting so into Star Trek. It's really fun for me to watch someone get so onto something I've been a fan of my whole life
@JusBidniss
3 ай бұрын
'Mark Twain' was the pen name of author Samuel L. Clemens. One of Clemens' many careers was riverboat pilot, and the term 'mark twain' was a riverboat term referring to the depth of the water the boat was navigating. A leadsman would stand near the bow of the boat with a 30-foot weighted rope marked in 1-fathom (6-foot) increments, and further into one-quarter-fathom fractions. 'Mark twain' or 'mark two' referred to 2 fathoms, or 12 feet of water depth. The leadsman would take the sounding and sing out the depth, loud enough for the pilot to hear it and make steering decisions for the boat. By way of example, these are some actual soundings called out by a leadsman, of a boat going from no detectable bottom (deeper than 4 fathoms) to nearly running aground, taken from an amusing story in chapter 13 of Clemens' book _Life on the Mississippi:_ "'D-e-e-p four!' M-a-r-k three!... M-a-r-k three... Quarter less three!... Half twain! Quarter twain! Quarter twain! MARK twain! Quarter LESS twain! Nine and a HALF!" I like to think that Sam Clemens, with his fertile imagination, must have been somewhat amused by the two-fathom term, and everytime he heard a leadsman sing it out, thinking how it sounded like someone's name, and that was what prompted him to adopt it as his pen name when he became an author.
@jameswilkerson4412
2 ай бұрын
So “quarter twain” = 3’ ?
@JusBidniss
2 ай бұрын
@@jameswilkerson4412 (It's confusing, hence the edits.) 'Deep four', 25 feet, more than this is considered 'ain't got no bottom' in the river, beneath a Mississippi riverboat. 'Mark four', 4 fathoms, 24 feet. 'Quarter less four', halfway between 'mark four' and 'half three', 3 3/4 fathoms, 22 1/2 feet. 'Half three', halfway between 'mark four' and 'mark three', 3 1/2 fathoms, 21 feet. 'Quarter three', halfway between 'half three' and 'mark three', 3 1/4 fathoms, 19 1/2 feet. 'Mark three', 3 fathoms, 18 feet. 'Quarter less three', halfway between 'mark three' and 'half twain', 2 3/4 fathoms, 16 1/2 feet. 'Half twain', halfway between 'mark three' and 'mark twain', 2 1/2 fathoms, 15 feet. 'Quarter twain' , halfway between 'half twain' and 'mark twain', 2 1/4 fathoms, 13 1/2 feet. 'Mark twain', 2 fathoms, 12 feet. 'Quarter less twain', 1 3/4 fathoms, 10 1/2 feet. Anything below this was called out as feet and fractions of feet. Clear as Mississippi River mud? 🤣
@auckalukaum
3 ай бұрын
Mark Twain pretty much sounded just like that in real life. He was quite a character.
@davidmarsden192
3 ай бұрын
The main guy in the poker game (Frederick La Rouque) was played by Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat).
@billrisner4756
3 ай бұрын
Samuel Clemons is Mark Twain.
@Dularr
3 ай бұрын
Mark Twain was a riverboat term.
@BubbaCoop
3 ай бұрын
@@Dularr a measurement of river depth, in fact. Mark one. Mark twain. Mark three.
@TheMoonKingdom
3 ай бұрын
And, "I guess we'll have to kill him." :)
@-taz-
3 ай бұрын
And Jack London was John Chaney, so he probably would not have given his pen name.
@charlie.on.youtube
3 ай бұрын
Or is Mark Twain Samuel Clemons 🤔
@SJHFoto
3 ай бұрын
I'm always shocked at the amount of classic literature people don't know. Sam Clemens IS Mark Twain, and Jack London is famous for the Call of the Wild, White Fang and the Sea Wolf
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
PLUS only about the dirtiest line of Shakespeare ever! The writers knew the boorishness of the TV audience.
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
most people are not well-cultured schools are fear+obedience submission conformity domestication indoctrination stations, training people to be slaaves for the rest of their lives any semblence of anything else is to sell it is at notthat to the masses
@wahoo236
3 ай бұрын
She is Canadian. I wouldn’t necessarily expect her to know that much about 19th century American authors. True story, I was ragging on her about not knowing Samuel Clemens while watching this video. My wife looked at me and said name one Canadian author. Of course, as an American, I couldn’t think of any.
@SJHFoto
3 ай бұрын
@@wahoo236 Like I said earlier, I am Canadian. I know both authors very well. Surely you know Lucy Maud Montgomery of Anne of Green Gables fame?
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
@@wahoo236 canadians are americans america is north, central, south america - you mean the united states
@adamcohen233
3 ай бұрын
"Mark Twain?! I don't want to be annoyed by MARK TWAIN!" Classic PIB moment right there. I'm still laughing about it now.
@theendistheend123
3 ай бұрын
yup, that was a LOL moment.
@edl653
3 ай бұрын
Cassie seems to have a Crush on Riker. My brother actually dated Johnathan Frake's first wife when they were 14. So many memories.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and even Armin 'Quark' Shimerman appeared on _Hill Street Blues._
@quoniam426
3 ай бұрын
She also has a crush on Picard, don't forget.
@JustWasted3HoursHere
3 ай бұрын
The "frenchman" at the poker game, by the way, is Marc Alaimo, who has played many characters on Star Trek. His most famous is the Cardassian Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine. One of my favorite parts of this two-parter is at the end in the cave when Guinan says "I'll see you in 500 years" and Picard says "And I'll see you in 5 minutes".
@marktracy1721
3 ай бұрын
Also one of the bad guys in Total Recall org
@jamesbeach7405
3 ай бұрын
Also the Romulan Commander in Season 1 TNG The Neutral Zone
@thecaptain134
3 ай бұрын
Greatest villain in all of Star Trek.
@JustWasted3HoursHere
2 ай бұрын
@@thecaptain134 I think I would have to agree with that. Marc plays him so well, making him creepily fascinating. He was the villain you loved to hate. By the way, if anyone likes Deep Space Nine and Marc Alaimo and the other characters from that excellent show, I highly recommend watching the 2 hour DS9 documentary "What We Left Behind" for free (with ads) on KZitem Movies and TV. One of the things they do in it is very cool: The writers get together and formulate a virtual 8th season with Nog as captain of his own ship. Anyway, here it is: kzitem.info/news/bejne/upduvYiHnGtkrH4si=-YcG4dejLtn_WXSa
@Robert_Douglass
2 ай бұрын
And believe it or not, he was also the man who became a "hit-beast" in "The Last Starfighter".
@TheTerryGene
3 ай бұрын
Mark Twain was one of America’s greatest writers. He was also a renowned orator. It’s the orator/performer we see here. I recommend Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight!”
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
Also a great prankster.
@zvimur
3 ай бұрын
7:13, Mark Alaimo! Played a Mars Company cop in Total Recall. Will be a voice to remember if you head into spinoffs.
@akeel_1701
3 ай бұрын
Oh, he was also one of the first two Romulans you meet in Season 1 TNG
@James_Ford4815
3 ай бұрын
i'm on the opposite side in that it's quite confusing to me how people can't understand time paradoxes/causality loops , it's pretty simple to get.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
They don't and cannot happen.
@diamondjack75
3 ай бұрын
I understand why you're only watching a few selected episodes from each season. However, just know that watching your reactions to all 178 episodes is a "Trek" I would have happily taken with you!
@brt5273
3 ай бұрын
Same. They all have their contribution to the whole experience, and there are so many little gems worth seeing that will never be at the top of any poll.
@kobayashimaru8114
3 ай бұрын
I'd hop on board that trek. I'm not a reactions fan but I really like this channel. I think it's because I once tried to introduce my ex to TNG but she refused to give it a chance. Somehow watching with Cassie makes up for it.
@ShawnWalker-wk8es
3 ай бұрын
Hi. Cassie how are you doing tonight I. Just watched. Your reaction to Star trek. Tng. Two. Part. Episode. Time s. Arrow. One of my favorite. Episode s of all time. And I love it. And I love. Your t. Shirt. Say s. Picard. Riker. 24. Make it. So. Can. You tell me where to. Get. One. Make. It. So. Shawn walker
@Joe67343
3 ай бұрын
For me, I'm thankful she'll never subject us to every episode of TNG or any series with many multiple seasons.
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
At least she's mentioned she may go and watch more episodes on her own and just not react to them on her channel.
@christopherconard2831
3 ай бұрын
Clemens/Twain having a distrust of Data's invention and technology does make sense. In real life he was offered an opportunity to be a founding partner in what would become AT&T. He turned it down partially because he didn't understand how it worked. He also saw phones as a toy for the rich, and thought they'd eventually become bored or annoyed with others being able to contact them quickly and without warning.
@andrewmurray1550
3 ай бұрын
he probably thought the telegraph was a "Boy's toy too". Yet it was established technology in his day.
@jlilley73
3 ай бұрын
He was so prescient! 😆
@sircoolalot9471
3 ай бұрын
S6: Relics, *, Ship in a Bottle, Tapestry & Frame of Mind. *Bonus video: Chain of Command 1+2 S7: Parallels, The Pegasus, Lower Decks, Genesis & *. *Bonus Video: All Good Things... (Finale, double length) Let's go, Patreon! 🤞🤞
@markreed392
3 ай бұрын
"I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" That's exactly how I felt about this episode.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
Amazing how shallow and superficial people can be.
@furtherback6131
3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Don't be too hard on Twain now
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
@@furtherback6131 You're the audience that despises intelligence. Not a who ... but an it.
@davidgalvez5341
3 ай бұрын
A lot of geniuses weren't necessarily likable people. I would even venture those were a decisive minority of the bunch.
@furtherback6131
3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver I'd say dust off that vibrator and give yourself with some downtime, it may ease the tension!
@OldMan_PJ
3 ай бұрын
"49er" refers to miners that took part in the 1849 gold rush.
@DeltaAssaultGaming
3 ай бұрын
“I thought that was Mark Twain for a second” …oh Cassy. You sweet summer child.
@elessartelcontar9415
3 ай бұрын
Summer Child by Conan Grey You see all the flowers in the weeds You're scared of the dark when you sleep You cover up your arms with your sleeves Even in hundred-degree heat Your father was awfully mean Your favorite color is green It reminds you of the summer you turned three Runnin' through sprinklers on your street And you laugh and you dance in the wind And you sway and you hug and you kiss But there's darkness behind those eyes Even when you smile Oh, summer child You don't have to act like all you feel is mild You don't really love the sun, it drives you wild You're lyin', summer child Aren't you way too busy Taking care of everybody To take care of yourself? When the sun goes missing Aren't the flowers just as pretty? Aren't the oceans just as deep? The trees as green? And as for me I'll watch you weep Oh, summer child You don't have to act like all you feel is mild You don't really love the sun, it drives you wild You're lyin', summer child
@PDNH
3 ай бұрын
This is my favorite episode because it spans our present time. Data's part and the watch are there right now.
@johanlaurasia
3 ай бұрын
Tbh, this is actually my favorite STNG episode. Clemens did write a Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889, so time travel was not an unknown idea. Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Twain/Clemens had never played Twain to that point, but became enamored with the role and created a 1 man show where he plays Twain. His portrayal is fairly accurate as the real Clemens was a bit of character. A lot more to the guy than just Huck Finn...
@lucasbachmann
3 ай бұрын
Yeah the innovation that H.G. Wells added to literature was making time travel as technological achievement rather than a good hit to the head. No doubt Yankee in King Arthur's Court is why Twain is in this episode.
@johanlaurasia
2 ай бұрын
@@lucasbachmann I Agree
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
In this two-parter, Data gets a head of himself.
@tackysum
3 ай бұрын
Always a joy to spend some time with you Cassie. And I agree Mr Clemens voice was a bit grating, however the actor (Jerry Hardin) did a good job in his portrayal. Hal Holbrook used to do a one man show called An Evening with Mark Twain (I think) which I was fortunate enough to see many years ago, and Mr. Hardin compares favorably.
@charlie.on.youtube
3 ай бұрын
@@tackysum he’s 94 now and still kicking! (Also he’s Melora Hardin’s father)
@cvonbarron
3 ай бұрын
@@charlie.on.youtube Right, he's best known as a character on the X files called Deep Throat.
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
Val Kilmer then did this
@susanalexander6721
3 ай бұрын
That's pretty much how he sounded. His voice was recorded.
@dogdrovenorth
3 ай бұрын
13:34 it's this episode where Sirtis, after a summer of sunbathing, returns to the show noticeably bronzed even though in the show her character spent one day meeting Samuel Clemens.
@bobblethreadgill4463
3 ай бұрын
this is where mark twain got the inspiration for "a yankee in king author's court" lol
@Yggdrasil42
2 ай бұрын
*King Arthur
@donaldcordner1936
3 ай бұрын
You cracked me up SO much with this ... Reporter: Will this a sequel to 'Connecticut Yankee', Mr. Twain? You: Gasp! Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): It's Clemens, boy! Sam Clemens!! You: Oh. I that was Mark Twain for a second. ADORABLE!!!
@Polymathically
3 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to watch this when it originally aired. I live within a reasonable commute away from San Francisco, so seeing it in fiction is always interesting. I've been a huge bookworm throughout my life, so seeing Mark Twain and Jack London in TNG was so cool back then. I've always appreciated how Star Trek incorporates literary references into its writing. Also, I visited/hiked at Jack London State Historic Park (which includes his house, the burned ruins of his mansion, and both his and his wife's graves) the day before Thanksgiving last year. Good times.
@KingApeiron
3 ай бұрын
Gul Dukat at the poker table made me scream out loud. I love when they reuse actors.
@lucasbachmann
2 ай бұрын
He was also in season 1 as a dog alien that didn't get along with the cobra people.
@robbob5302
2 ай бұрын
That was the real Guinan there. Could it have been the real Dukat as well?
@davemclaughlin8625
Ай бұрын
The Mark Twain actor also played the leader of the childless people who stole Weasley and the other children
@brianm523
3 ай бұрын
One of my favorites! I always love the time travel episodes.
@johnbickle8457
2 ай бұрын
I love how their views of time travel have changed. changeable time VS alternate timelines.
@coinsaver
3 ай бұрын
"If you try to employ logic to temporal mechanics, you'll just drive yourself crazy - or, at least give yourself one massive headache." - Captain Katherine Janeway, commanding Federation starship Voyager.
@dostatochno
3 ай бұрын
And yet the logic of this pair of episodes is entirely sound. Whatever happened in the past already happened from the perspective of the present, even if it involves people who traveled to the past from the present or the future. Perhaps unknowingly, the writers of the Matrix provided a very good sentence to describe the causal nature or the universe -- "What happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way."
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
the most annoying character ever in Star Trek? unbearable, arrogant narcissist - the actress too!
@lucasbachmann
3 ай бұрын
@@lopa-u9f To be fair every character in Voyager was unbearable in their own way.
@lopa-u9f
2 ай бұрын
@@lucasbachmann they're mostly quite bad, but I'd only cal Janeway and Neelix unbearable actually like 7 of 9 and what they did there/think that was well done (and I'm not a booob-oogler appeal-person)
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
Women are famously bad at logic. Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Archer never had any trouble with it.
@humanvideosponge4529
3 ай бұрын
I don't know if this is one of the more popular episodes or not but I've got a real soft spot for it and have since I saw it when it first aired on TV.
@turbinski2000
3 ай бұрын
Two of my favorite episodes. I spent a lot of time in Hannibal MO as a kid and Mark Twain was my grandmother’s favorite author.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
The twist here is on Twain's _Connecticut Yankee._
@jameswilkerson4412
2 ай бұрын
And a distant cousin of my wife
@jimhester1205
2 ай бұрын
He programmed it into Data's head that got trapped in the past. That's the one they found in the future, and attached to Data's body when he came back without a head. Even though he lost it in the past, he got it back in the future.
@neutrino78x
3 ай бұрын
6:44 yes, the 49ers were people who came here (the San Francisco Bay Area) when gold was discovered here, seeking fortune...starting in 1849. 🙂 14:01 yes, Mark Twain was the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens, who made several visits to our fair city. 🙂 16:00 Jack London was a famous American author as well; he wrote, for example, The Call of the Wild. There is a Jack London Square in Oakland, on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay. 🙂
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
The dumbest thing about this episode is showing San Francisco as a sunny, dusty place. Twain said the dreariest winter he'd ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco.
@neutrino78x
3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver San Francisco is VERY sunny, but it stays colder than us down here in Silicon Valley, even though both are on San Francisco Bay (hence "San Francisco Bay Area"), because down here we have the Santa Cruz Mountains blocking the breeze from the Pacific, and San Francisco is directly exposed. The breeze from San Fancsico Bay does cool us off at night, though. 🙂 Right now it's 105 F (40.5 C), but tonight it should get down to 65 at least (18.3 C) because of the breeze from the Bay. 🙂 I have the AC going full blast, but no environmental guilt because we're still about 70% zero emission power in California right now. 🙂 After the Sun goes down, we have another 5-6 hours of solar power stored in the world's largest energy storage system, currently 10.3 GWh and growing rapidly. 🙂
@rasmuslernevall6938
3 ай бұрын
I have seen tons of reactions through the years, but no others have given me the same joy as seeing Cassie watching TNG. It is truly the best of both worlds.
@angelohernandez6060
3 ай бұрын
Jack London is another classic writer. He wrote "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild". Great adventure books.
@swordmonkey6635
3 ай бұрын
Cassie: "Riker's looking sharp in that outfit!" Me: ** Looking at Beverly stealing the scene in Victorian garb and hairstyle**
@alanbayles1218
3 ай бұрын
Cassie's comment when Mark Twain was discovered to be eavesdropping.... "Well, I suppose we'll have to kill him." 😲 Wow! That was brutally cold.... Cassie is no longer the innocent soul that first appeared three years ago. I wonder are those John Wick movies starting influencing her subconscious 🤔
@bobbuethe1477
2 ай бұрын
I assumed that by "we," she meant the writers, not the Enterprise crew.
@Shadowace724
3 ай бұрын
Twain was a busy body and a swindler at some times. He was quite the character. I have always enjoyed these episodes. Great reactions Cassie!
@Snowwie88
3 ай бұрын
It's also kinda weird that Guinan is called "Madam Guinan" (at 10:07) while Q was saying to her in the episode Q-Who, "You are called Guinan now?"
@bobbuethe1477
2 ай бұрын
That would suggest that she first met Q before the 1890s, and they didn't encounter each other again until the Enterprise. Either that, or she changed her name at least once after the 1890s, and changed it back sometime in the next 500 years.
@chuchulainn9275
3 ай бұрын
Okay. Time travel, at least in tv and movies, can be explained by how the writers deal with paradoxes. A paradox is a contradiction in reality. Basically, something happens that can't happen. Like going back in time and killing your younger self or preventing yourself from time travelling in the first place. This episode is basically just like Terminator. John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to keep a terminator from killing his mother Sarah Connor. Kyle Reese ends up impregnating Sarah and John, his future commander is born. John grows up to be the Resistance leader and sends Reese back in time again creating a loop. This is what is known as a closed loop timeline. Everything that happens will happen and must happen the way it did before or the events that will happen won't happen. There are 2 other types of time travel but I don't want to confuse you further. 🙂
@ithinkihadeight
3 ай бұрын
Obligatory trivia, the Frenchman at the poker table is the same actor as Gul Dukat from DS9.
@gawainethefirst
3 ай бұрын
I think he’s supposed to be Cajun.
@DurkMcGerk
3 ай бұрын
@@gawainethefirst Cajuns are descendants of French Canadians
@portalina
3 ай бұрын
They reuse actors in Star Trek all the time.
@CavemanSynthesizer
3 ай бұрын
Boy, I sure hope she does DS9
@moseshughes2670
3 ай бұрын
And Gul Macet in "The Wounded"
@jsharp3165
3 ай бұрын
Jerry Hardin, the actor who played Twain, is the father of actress Melora Hardin, who played Jan Levinson on "The Office." As he has said, thankfully she looks nothing like him!
@bobbuethe1477
2 ай бұрын
She also played Trudy Monk on _Monk,_ and was originally cast as Jennifer in _Back to the Future._ (She was replaced by Claudia Wells when Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz as Marty, because Melora was too much taller than Michael.)
@ct6852
3 ай бұрын
That severed cyborg head in the dirt was kind of haunting. Looked like an episode of The Walking Dead there for a second.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
Data got a head of himself. The whole story is based around a pun.
@ct6852
3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver That's not the way to get ahead in life.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
@@ct6852 Oh yes it is! ... If you work for Brannon Braga.
@ct6852
3 ай бұрын
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Was just throwing in a little pun from Austin Powers. Too easy to pass up.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
@@ct6852 Sea bass.
@howardbalaban7051
3 ай бұрын
This 2-parter is probably one of my favorites!
@christopherferrarelli2262
3 ай бұрын
Love your reaction Cassie. Dilly Dilly. Not sure if the Patreon polls for Season 6 are up, but here are my picks: (Note: This will mirror how you did Season 5) Part 1: - Relics - Chain of Command Parts 1 & 2 Part 2: - Tapestry - Starship Mine - Lessons Also, if you do continue on with more Star Trek, will you consider a reaction to “Emissary”; the pilot episode for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
@walther007
3 ай бұрын
Love how they sneak Jack London isn't the script.
@eurow3808
3 ай бұрын
I always tear up when Troy explains the future to Twain 😭🖤🖖
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
Giving up cigars, though? Screw that.
@lopa-u9f
3 ай бұрын
it's an extreme lie there is no eradication of any of those things, and the eradication of those things doesn't mean progress, it means tyranny and being removed from nature the federation is a tyrannical authoritarian militarized entity interested in conformity+obedience to their dictations idealized socialism for the naive sheltered masses but there's still a lot of good stuff there, just have to realize what else it has going on hemogenization, othering (entire species are treated as uniformly '1' thing and anything that isn't like that 1 thing is seen as aberrant to the 'norm')
@cadleo
3 ай бұрын
Jack London, the bellhop, is also a famous American writer. He wrote Call of the Wild, among many others.
@DP-hy4vh
3 ай бұрын
49er is a reference to gold prospectors and the California gold rush of 1849. Some made it big and others like the one Data met didn't do so well.
@richardb.7054
3 ай бұрын
The best thing about watching this the first time today is not having to wait months for part two like I had to back in the day 😀
@marleybob3157
3 ай бұрын
Oh Cassie, you are going to love this!!!!!!!! No spoilers from me but man do I want to discuss this with somebody. I will leave you with a bit of wisdom from one Mark Twain - "Always obey your parents... when they are present." Enjoy.
@johnmiller7682
3 ай бұрын
There was another famous writer in these episodes. Jack London was the bellboy helping Data.
@MichaelTotin
3 ай бұрын
It must be the Canadian education. I thought everyone knew that Mark Twain was a pen name and his real name was Samuel Clemons. "Nom de plume". Stephan King used to write under the name Richard Bachman. There are tons of actors and singers with stage names. Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan...
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
When it comes to actors, a lot of the stage names are because of guild rules. And in other cases they're trying to hide their true ethnicity.
@ghostbeetle2950
3 ай бұрын
Ahem: "In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine, lived a miner, forty-niner, and his daughter, Clementine. You are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine!"
@JAF729
3 ай бұрын
"Mark Twain! I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" said by every American student in their 7th grade intro to American Literature class.
@There-is.no-spoon
3 ай бұрын
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Bing Crosby musical adaptation , from 1949. Is a charming movie.
@rogerschneider5971
3 ай бұрын
"Mark Twain?! I don't want to be annoyed by Mark Twain!" She really is one of us ❤️
@RideAcrossTheRiver
3 ай бұрын
Twain's intelligence cuts everyone to shreds in this episode.
@cfosburg
3 ай бұрын
Jack London was a famous author he wrote ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’ among many more. Star Trek Staff often would find ways to incorporate historical figures into specific time pieces, like the holodeck.
@fakecubed
2 ай бұрын
Back then Star Trek writers actually were well-read and intelligent.
@synthetic240
3 ай бұрын
The thing that'll bake your noodle, considering you've seen The Guardian of Forever, is that the Enterprise's timeline exists (in part) because all the people the aliens killed weren't influential on the future. Things apparently turned out exactly as they were supposed to.
@memnarch129
3 ай бұрын
A "Pre-destination" Paradox. For those not in the know about Temporal Mechanics. Its the situation in which you realize you do somthing in the past, here that Datas head is found on earth 100s of years before he was even built. The Paradox dictates that in order for time to flow as it should that sometime in the future you MUST go back in time and do whatever it is you do in order for time to occur the way you know it to. Again in this case Data HAS to go back to 1900s Earth because his head is found in a cave in the 23rd century thats been undisturbed for 500 years.
@ghost7524
3 ай бұрын
@@memnarch129 That's 1800s Earth/19th Century.
@3Rayfire
3 ай бұрын
@@memnarch129 24th century, but yes.
@neptunusrex5195
3 ай бұрын
@memnarch192 Isn’t that also known as the boot-strap paradox, or is that something different?
@bobrunnicles4618
2 ай бұрын
There is no spoon 😉
@Lexi_Zone
Ай бұрын
Hahahaha you can't kill him for knowing too much, he's Mark Twain! We'll goof up the timeline!
@neilvarma
3 ай бұрын
Cassie is so cute 🥰 and adorable. It’s such a shining light
@kevinlewallen4778
3 ай бұрын
Ignorance isn't cute or adorable.
@neilvarma
3 ай бұрын
@@kevinlewallen4778 wTf.. 🙄
@captainhoarse
3 ай бұрын
@@kevinlewallen4778 I agreed her ignorance is pretty grating sometimes.
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