Mine, oddly, is when Data is watching Picard sleep
Shut up! As in close your mouth and stop talking!
The one where a Stone Age type of civilization is visited and members accidentally reveal themselves to the inhabitants. Then they think Pircard is a god and a cult/religion begins to form. I think it is called “The Picard”
Who Watches The Watchers
The ending of Inner Light where Picard is playing the flute into the void
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra !!
Darmok and Jalad, on the ocean.
so many classics listed already, some others…
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the one where a civillisation downloads their lives into picard. whole ep you’re wondering wtf is with picard this is slow as he lives some dudes life, then the reveal is amazing it’s so full of positivity and warmth - appropriately titled “the inner light”. hats off for capturing positivity so well onscreen (for some reason an elusive skill)
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when picard defends data’s rights as a sentient being
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Picard breaking down in the mud with his brother about his assimilation.
The moment where Picard says, “we have no law to fit your crime.”
Picard on the first duty.
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.
Great scene.
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.
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my hat is barely big enough to make this post.
“It never…happened!”
Shut up, Wesley!
Probably when Tasha asks Data if he’s fully functional.
The scene with Picard and the Romulan. The whole thing including the tea scene at the start with Beverly.
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.
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 ship battle scene in All Good Things.
