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  • @sendahoejust1

    He was alive. When he gained emotions Deanna could sense them. Meaning he is literally alive in a way that they couldnt explain scientifically.

  • may i interject,my son was born not looking the same as everyone else,consequentially his life was taken from him by (normal looking people)I will make it my lifes goal to try to make people understand we are all the same and yet different

  • @alecamal I agree with you. You see, through a series of circumstances, my brother has had a brain injury and epilepsy all his life. People judge him and say he can't do things, but he can.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl I so badly want to give you a hug

  • @alecamal dang it my face is leaking

  • You know, it was episodes like this one, that approached the kind of topic it did with candor, and with genuine heart, not to mention the stellar acting from Stewart and Spiner, that really made TNG the show it was.

  • I have thought about the same question Data asks, but more specifically why Geordi prefers his own eyes.

  • He is a great robot, nothing more. He's not really alive, he's only programmed to act like he's alive, make many many more. If they made a robot that was programmed every time you squeezed it to say "don't hurt me" would you really think you were hurting it at all when squeezing it.

  • Strong argument against racism. Star Trek at its best!

  • @FH1987 - Yes, arguement against racism or ANY kind of prejudice - with double standards.

  • TROLOLOL!

  • yea but picard fought for him during the trial and owned everyone in the room including the judge!

  • there are no shows that address such complex problems anymore, at least, not with a genuine attitude

  • 1:27 "Fuck me this guy is difficult"

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  • Picard's like, "Shit....he just backed me into an inescapable corner!"

  • The Borg answer to that question: cybernetic eyes for everyone! Hooray!

  • @TheAle89515

    You just want em so you don't go blind!!!

  • Picard didn't get owned. He simply had view point he wanted to share with data and upon understanding Data's position on the matter realized that there was no point in discussing it further.

  • @xNikolai um or he's an inconsiderate bald c*nt

  • @genericusername337 Aw, hell no! You did NOT just go there!

  • @xNikolai actually that was the point where he realised he was wrong IIRC.

  • excellent episode. season 2: "the measure of a man".

  • data krupa

  • OWNED! lol

  • @SaneReviews

    Dude. Have you ever heard of this thing called a "Video Camera"? It captures images of electromagnetic waves so that they may be stored and played at a later time, usually using a thing called an "LCD screen" which are usually calibrated to display a small section of electromagnetic waves called "Visible Light".

  • @Jumpingflashlight

    the visor doesn't play you a movie, it plugs into the side of your face, communicating directly with your brain. and don't ask me why, but the stupid fucking thing can't translate the visible spectrum. what you see with that thing on is a blinding field of intense colors representing heat and a few types of radiation.

  • @SaneReviews A bit like the Predator, really.

  • @SaneReviews

    Geordie was born blind. His brain couldn't necessarily interpret normal visible light like a regular person from it. His VISOR picked up all light spectrums, radio spectrums, and more. It gave him better vision than a human, but left him unable to see like a normal human. You might describe this as a trade-off.

    It also left him in constant pain, since the brain wasn't designed to accept data input from a device like it.

  • @Jumpingflashlight While it's true, that Geordi with VISOR didn't see the world like us (a visible light spectrum) and saw it - as SPeacock puts it - in a "predatorish" way (see Memory Alpha), it's interesting that in ST: Generations doctor Tholian Soran managed to modify Geordi's VISOR to transmit a recording of visible light to the ship's screen.

  • @Ceberuss Why is that interesting to you?

  • @CabhanListis It raises a question (which SaneReviews indirectly mentions) of why it wasn't possible for Geordi to see the visible light when VISOR was apparently able to process it. But I am sure someone would eventually think of some more or less acceptable explanation.

  • @Ceberuss While no explanation is given in the movie, of course, this is what covert monitoring devices have done for years. La Forge's VISOR transmits the light to his brain through its own channel. But the device Soran implants in the VISOR would necessarily encode the feed and transmit it in a frequency outside the VISOR's range. Since there is no limit to the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, it is feasible for such a transmission to occur without his VISOR picking it up.

  • Superb acting, superb writing. Modern TV is so pathetic compared to this.

  • @rbnn *My Little pony...*

  • @KimmyRose12

    Fascinating. These are two of the only shows I watch today. There must be a connection, and I believe it to be "Quality".

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  • bravo data its what lincoln fought for in civil war and kennedy in 1960s equaulity for all not just some even if data is machine hes still a lifeform like the EMH in voyager they both are life forms treat them as such take that 24th century thumbs up for equality for all

  • TNG is always so inspiring. A big part of it is these two characters and actors, and of course the writers. Who knew so much philosophy, morality, humanity and ethics could be discovered on a starship traveling through the vast emptiness of deep space.

  • @dewfall56 Yeah, for me, it's the best movie when it comes to these qualities you just said. That's what I like the most about this movie.

  • One word: Powerful.

  • As many of the viewers here claim that they would change their eyes for a VISOR, I'd like to point out an episode, where Q gives Geordi natural eyes for a few moments and he is stunned how beautiful the world (and Tasha Yar specifically) looks like. So I guess technical superiority isn't everything.

  • @Ceberuss Good point. They probably think agreeing to something like that makes them advanced or something. Lol, that is what you call drones, perfect for borgs.

  • what was the context of this conversation? What procedure was Data being made subject to?

  • @goibee Data was being accosted by an aggressive inexperienced man-child scientist who thought if he took Data’s positronic brain apart he would be able to recreate it, thus putting a Data on the bridge of every federation starship. Fantastic episode.

  • I wonder how Spock would have responded to Mr Data.

  • Keep pressing 8.

    This is most you'll ever see Picard get owned.

  • That's one small comtuter screne. / Data was in the right. Had Starfleet said they owned him, then what would he say? Data said the perfect thing to get Picard's, "this isn't fair and I've got to do something about it" glands. :)

  • If I lived in the Star Trek society, and I had the proof that LaForge's VISOR actually was superior to human eyes, I would immediately get my eyes replaced with a VISOR. And if Picard asked me why, I'd reply: "I have the choice whether to transcend my human limits or not. There's no reason to choose not to."

  • @DevilMaster Thats borg mentality. Sacrifice all natural attributes at will for the sake of perfection.

  • @acesneeks The Borg also sacrifice individuality. I wouldn't.

  • @DevilMaster except everything you saw would be a blinding technicolor nightmare, y'know, like what the visor shows you. there's a reason laforge practically breaks down with joy any time someone uses an experiment or space magic to give him real eyesight. also remember that there are several episodes where his visor was broken or rendered inoperable where eyes would have suited him fine.

  • Such a well written scene.

    "The best interest of Star Fleet" huh? well take that, picard!

  • and a massive dose of infallible logic just got dropped like a ten ton load of bricks.

  • Shut up! That's why!

  • SNAP! lol

  • fuckin' owned!

  • Sure, I'd go for cybernetic eyes

  • @ytmndman I'd go for the eyes, too, IF I were blind with no other solution. Give up my natural sight? Nope.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl i don't understand.....how is this "owning" him? or funny? not trying to be mean, i just don't understand. :/

  • @riaAZ1997 It's not particularly funny, but he owns him by pointing out Picard's own I guess you could say biological chauvinism, his own prejudice or even bigotry. Later in the episode we see how Picard has accepted this as true, and modified his opinions. It's one of the reasons he's one of the few TNG characters who actually grew as a person over the course of the show.

  • Valid point, Mr. Data. All human personnel report to the medical bay immediately!

  • @SocialistCatgirl after watching: oh, I get it now. have a thumbs up.

  • Picard: Well we seem to have a problem.

    Normal persons reaction: NO SHIT MAN I GONNA DIE!

    Data's reaction: I find myself in complete agreement with that statement, sir.

    Seriously, i know he acts as a machine (as in he still is a man in RL) but he does sometimes scare me xD

  • Picard can feel and love and understand it in a whole.

    Data has strength and can solve problems and has abilities.

    data is a problem solving being..that knows human emotions..but cant express

    picard can problem solve and doesnt require abilities cause he can feel n understand his emotions. I'd rather be human over a humanoid ANYDAY ,sorry data

  • Picard wasn't trying to convince Data to undergo the procedure. Infact, he opposed it. He was only playing the devil's advocate because he thought it was his duty.

  • WillRennar - If only Q showed up for a sec JUST to say that phrase... my life would've been complete... and I'd have died laughing!

  • very funny??

  • I would replace my eyes with augmented cybernetic ones if I could. I personally think the old star trek is becoming dated. After all I bet I'm not the only one looking forward to the point in time when mechanical body replacements becomes an option.

  • @ArchivedFox I don't know if I'd go with a VISOR, though (yes, technically, it is an acronym), but it would be interesting to be able to replace your eyes with the ones that Geordi had in First Contact.

  • @ArchivedFox Maybe transhumanist ideas are more common thesedays.

    To be honest, in hindsight i envied the Borg, and eventually disagreed with a lot of the naturalistic morals put forward in this show (although i suppose this episode is an exception).

    But if i hadn't watched the show i'd have never thought about this shit.

    So yeah, the show dated itself, simply by moving us forward.

  • @ArchivedFox there was a hardcopy version/episode where people had cybernetic implants in their fingers. They used these to communicate with [a computer network?] and since this was basically their lives, they did have the implants put in. Other than this, or a "only solution" option for health/sight/etc, I myself would tend to stay with my natural body the way it is.

  • @ArchivedFox you probably wouldn't think so after a week of staring into the incomprehensible predator vision that the visor gives you. have fun never seeing a physically attractive person ever again. or being able to watch youtube videos. or read

  • @SaneReviews "have fun never seeing a physically attractive person ever again"

    Beauty is in the... err... eye of the beholder. Do you really care if your lover looks like the Mandelbrot Set as long as he or she gives you a woody?

  • owned by logic....

  • Check and mate, mon capitan.

  • 1:27  Picard: "shiiiieeeeeeettttttttt"

  • Data shud have said mmmmmhmmmmm thot soz

    ...

  • Foocking PWNED!

  • Fucking owned bitch.

  • I don't think this is funny; I think it's incredibly profound.

  • @pce789 Much of Star Trek was you are right.

  • @pce789 It is. Something doesn't have to be funny to qualify as someone being "owned".

  • @pce789 This has always been one of my favorite Star Trek TNG episodes.

  • This was a great episode. TNG is my favorite of all the TV versions.

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  • Hee hee hee... He didn't like that, did he?

  • LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! #TeamData

  • Data: "I see" .... i could almost hear the hand slapping picard across the face.

    Tiberius wouldntve taken shit from a robot O.O

  • Data is just pure awesome. There is no reason data can be anything but awesome. When he analyzing stuff, he makes an awkward situation more awkward, then hilarious.

  • Season Two is horrible. This episode was no exception.

  • @FPSWordle wow. you seem to have confused opinion with fact, but never mind.

  • FUCKING BOOM data drops the bomb

  • This is my all-time favorite episode of any Star Trek series. Three major bridge officers all have Crowning Moments of Awesome in the same hour.

  • Don’t sas me android.

  • touche, and food for thought to boot. nicely done, Data

  • LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Owned.

  • Wasn't data mass produced? They ran into a rouge version of him in the t.v. show,then in i think nemesis the real data sacrificed himself to save picard.

  • @guybeleeve wouldn't call it mass produced. if you include nemesis there were 3 models, b4, lore, and data. but nemesis is dead to many a trek fan (i can put up with it) and b4 who was given data's knowledge apparently eventually became data according to the new trek comic/movie.

  • @kght222 thanks for clearing that up for me.

  • @guybeleeve no real reason for me to continue on this, but i felt i should mention that data's mother was the only android sung made that could be called a "production model" all the others were prototypes. and of course data's attempt at a daughter; lal could only be considered a prototype as well. now there was an ai in the series that was mass produced. the doctor from voyager was mass produced, and relegated to mining and other dirty and dangerous jobs instead of the function it was made for

  • @kght222 Holy crap i didn't know all that! You must be a real trek fan,i appreciate the info. I'm thinking about playing the Star Trek online game,i need to get more of the books to know more about the world of star trek.

  • somewhow i dont think the Picard we knew from later seasons would have ever suggested Data submit to that procedure.

  • owneeddddd

  • Well data did get pwned by picard once when Data overlooked Picard's French patriotism in another clip I just saw.

  • Android burn!

  • epic ownage, data ftw

  • i like when data owns spock with logic, was beautiful.

  • What episode was this?

    

  • @volcan2day The Measure of Man from Season 2.

  • @volcan2day you should be ashamed for even having to ask, this ep is classic

  • This is one of my favorite episodes. This and the one with Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Actually probably one of the Q episodes actually nevermind.

  • rape face xD 0:48

  • I'd say this scene was more interesting and thought prokoving than it is funny. Also you can see that because of Data's comments this is the start of Picard's defence of android rights as shown later on in this episode and "The offspring" as well.

  • @mummra4ever agreed.

  • oh yea, he owned him

  • what episode

    

  • @guy27677 Measure of a Man

  • Fail again, Picard.

  • Data owns everybody in TNG, but I wonder if he could own the majestic Kirk. Knowing hom many computers Kirk distroyed only by discussing with them, I'm afraid Data would loose. But, on the other hand, kirk wouldn't ask Data what Picard did.

  • @msinvincible2000 Kirk computer record:Outsmarted the Enterprise Computer when it got intelligent and became a practical joker. Outsmarted the M-5 Super-Computer.

  • @msinvincible2000 lmao. kirk is about as majestic as a drunk 3 legged bull in a swan costume.  there's no computer he could outsmart without the writers being his fanboys.

  • @msinvincible2000 Your right that's not what kirk would do. Kirk would of just said fuck off to the cybernetics guy

  • @guy27677 well kirk is the reason there arent any androids left in the star trek universe by TNG, he kept making their heads explode.

  • Nobody owns picard. If you defeat a point in argument he learns from it - thus he always wins....

  • The strength of this scene is predicated on the fact that Picard did not take the larger view and Data pointed it out to him. His "frustration" at the end of it is not with Data but in his own shortcomings for not seeing the obvious truth in the first place.

  • Smart writers!

  • They are simply referring to replacement. If humans aren't willing to replace their eyes then why should Data be replaced by other versions of himself. The answer is we are to unwilling to do it for ourselves because we are selfish and not willing to loose our humanity for such a change but we are inhuman in asking for an android to undertake in the very same principal. Not that Data wouldn't do this, just that he has the right to choose. All the more proving that he is sentient.

  • Problem is that you could explain the context a little better, perhaps in the text.

    Perhaps I'll "like" your video then ;)

  • "Because fuck you, Data. That's why."

    "Understood, Captain."

  • I want my cybernetic implants!

  • @mangledmonkey what did I do wrong? Data owns Picard in this vid.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl you did nothing wrong kid....your totally right. Data explained as well as revealed Picards short shortsightedness and hypocritical behavior in this vid. Good job.

  • @KinaNafasi And there's a reason that Picard values Data's input (lol input.) His near childlike perspective of the world lets him see situations from the most logical and rational of positions, emotionlessness.

  • @ZeDingoBlag totally agree.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl

    Perhaps mangledmonkey is a transhumanist and thinks our biological makeup should be replaced with superior units, technology permitting.

    For the record, I'm a transhumanist too, but I don't consider you an idiot.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl modern vernacular set aside, i think mangledmonkey might have had a slight point, this whole episode was about the owning of sentient beings, yet you title this as data owning picard, the opposite of what this episode represents. although i do agree that data made a great point in this scene, one that forced picard to start to realize what he was really dealing with.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl modern vernacular set aside, i think mangledmonkey might have had a slight point, this whole episode was about the owning of sentient beings, yet you title this as data owning picard, the opposite of what this episode represents. although i do agree that data made a great point in this scene, one that forced picard to start to realize what he was really dealing with.

  • @mangledmonkey Grammatical fail.

  • xd. nothing more.

  • data is trolling

  • in this episode some science officer wanted to dissasemble(kill) data to find out how he works. So picard had to prove in court that data is sentient.

  • @Mropticalgreen I saw that episode. They couldn't prove he was sentient, but they did prove he was intelligent and self aware enough to have the same rights as humans and that he was not just the property of Starfleet.

  • But data IS just a machine.

  • @peronkop

    So are humans. Just not made of metal and plastic...

  • @Yonkage I think a machine has to be defined as something manufactured.

  • @peronkop

    Manufactured by what?

  • @peronkop Could you argue we are manufactured by our parents?

  • @iammadness You can't, because when you manufacture something you know exactly what is going to come out at the end. All kids are unpredictable, and not fully controllable (some are completely uncontrollable).

  • @mostliberal WEll you got to lay down the law when they are young. Let them know what sort of behavior is unacceptable and if they don't listen you take away privileges and favorite toys.  No child starts out uncontrollable. People are just unwilling to discipline anymore.

  • @iammadness Actually, my parents tried all that shit with me, and I NEVER listened to them. If I had nothing to do because they took my stuff, I would just sit and stare at the walls rather than do homework. I just despised authority so much that I disobeyed them out of spite, regardless of what the consequences were. When I was in kindergarten (and before) I was already beating up my parents in their sleep.

  • @mostliberal I went to my room and read my books. Seems my mom didn't feel like clearing out my room every single time.

  • @mostliberal

    Actually, you are manufactured by your parents up until your birth it is called gestation.

  • @peronkop

    See the entire episode...

  • I dont get it...

  • @DeathAngel0208 the whole episode is about whether or not Data is a sentient being. Picard starts to think that he is just machine. Data retaliates and states that if he were human, they wouldn't be going through this. Does that make sense?

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl Probably one of the best episodes of the Second Season.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl your name is under this... smart one... it's even under... "uploader comments" smart one... -_-

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl This really make sense, this whole episode is about how can we judge what is right to do with life... how we can be sure to identify life... what can we do with life?

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl Picard should've responded "No shit, Sherlock". Data should be called Captain Obvious. 

  • @DeathAngel0208 y did u dislike my video? just because u don't get it doesn't mean u have to dislike it when everyone else understands the awesomeness of what is data owning picard.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl Picard wasn't owned, only Starfleet's point-of-view on this subject was. Picard was actually on Data's side from beginning to end.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl

    The whole point of the dislike button is to let people know that you didn't like something - whether you're the minority or not.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl Nothing wrong with disliking something. The world is full of "Like" buttons. It's okay, not to like something too.

  • @awesomeinuyashagirl I wonder where's the owning part...I expected something with more attitude.

  • @DeathAngel0208

    This *ingenious* episode is titled "The Measure Of Man" - make sure you see it. 45 min of well invested time in life.