Star Trek Captain Picard Weighs In On Torture ( SHORT )

[sinshiro]

I never could tell what he was saygi nat the end there... was it a song?

[Jelperman]

Dick Cheney and John Yoo must be Cardassians.

[StigRossi]

@Jelperman

Actually they fake Klingons according to David Wu D-Oregon. Look up "fake klingons" on youtube

[SwordsmanMercenary]

I think of this episode while at the dentist, I have a Cardassian dentist.

[donluchitti]

this is seriously the best arrangement of this episode on the web.. great for involving folks who never gave STNG a moment of their attention.

[badreligion1231]

What is amazing is how graphic it is yet there is not one drop of blood shed or anything . Great acting .

[TallShip286]

Im an electrical apprentice and whenever a Journeyman treats me like crap for no good reason I think of this clip. It gets me through day...in-spite of everything they do to me, all I see in them is a weak and pitiful apprentice who let those he was working with get to him. I've said it to the guys I work with too, "You cannot hurt me".

[audiowiz]

@TallShip286 hehe nice!

[TayrynJaneway]

....when the hell was this on G4?????

[smcneal057]

Some people in our own government should've listened to this.

[coa1979liw]

wow. how the heck didn't Sir Patrick Stewart win that year's Emmy for this performance alone?

[FoolieFishing]

I wish JJ Abrams would undertand this side of Star Trek...

[audiowiz]

@FoolieFishing Yeah, it won't happen he just blows shit up, and makes the cars go vroom.

[Azakhiel]

@FoolieFishing Let's be fait, though. The reality of making a movie and those of making a series are vastly different. Most Trek movies have focused on the action... except the first one which almost everyone hates for some reason...

[FoolieFishing]

@Azakhiel Sure, but action without content is like...a starship without a warp core :P just an ampty shell. Good movies combine action and "messages". That's what makes a good story. It just doesn't feel that JJ neither "gets" star trek nor respects it.

[Azakhiel]

@FoolieFishing That's funny, because I had the opposite impression. Life's grand, isn't it ?

[FoolieFishing]

I'm glad you liked it. I wish I did...

But sure, I appriciated it, I just had higher expectations.

And I was kind of pissed when JJ in an interview accidentally slipped his tounge and said Star Wars when he meant to say Star Trek...

[audiowiz]

@FoolieFishing I agree with your original comment. The TNG series & films were the best. JJ Abrams Star Trek movie fit in with the original Star Trek franchise, but was still mildly disappointing.

[FoolieFishing]

@audiowiz I hear you. And I guess one should be thankful that someone at least makes Star Trek movies. And they made a good job casting Spock. In both cases =)

[StigRossi]

@FoolieFishing

I'm a huge TNG fan, seen every episode at least twice, but was the original series as philosophical as TNG? Or was it more like JJ Abrams' film?

[FoolieFishing]

@StigRossi Well, I haven't seen the entire original series, but I still think the philosophical aspect is one of the things that makes it great and that's what was carried on in TNG. Episodes like "Who Mourns for Adonais?" have very little in common with JJ's intepretation of the concept.

[FutureNewsAnchor]

Oh, sweet. There's a new episode of Attack of the Show! every weeknight.

[calldoyle]

this scene is unreal.

[1stb1]

david wurner also voiced ra's al ghul in the batman animated series and i guess the superman and batman beyond crossovers

[BillTheWaterDrinker]

Torture works if the following conditions are met:

1. The subject has the information that the torturer wants. Obviously torturing the wrong guy won't do any good.

2. The subject believes the torturer has a way to detect false information and punish with more torture. Without this, the subject could just lie.

3. The torture is sufficiently distressing. A tough subject can withstand a lot, but everyone has a breaking point.

[spiderofgod]

This wouldn't have happened in Kirk's day. He'd have broken free, kicked shit out off his captor, shagged his missus and still had time to get back on the Enterprise to laugh at Spock's cultural differences.

[winningHerring]

@spiderofgod Thats true, and it only goes to illustrate why the character Picard is vastly superior to TOS Kirk. Any one can write a story with a completely infallable character who has only fools as enemies. It takes real skill to write a character who is more vulnerable, who has enemies which may get the better of him, and who still comes out as credible.

Its quite telling that the Star Trek 2 is generally the favoured TOS movie, where Kirk loses his TOS invunerablilty and makes mistakes.

[Sandbright]

1:13

INTERNETS

[DeannaTroi70]

"YOU CANNOT HURT ME!!!"

Poor Picard :(

[cyberen]

Nice video. Isn't this guy the one who voiced The Lobe on Freakazoid?

[Dasyati]

Haha, I didn't realize before now that he started singing "Sur Le Pont d'Avignon" at the end.

[angrydead]

they should tattoo picards speach on Sean hannity's head.

[Jessymandias]

after it is severed of course

[TJae1]

Is it possible that Christo-tubes... are actually, sub-whoring, cardassians..

[SolomanKane2k8]

Picard should have called his mother a whore.

[matrix86]

But that's not his style. I was picked on a lot my first year in high school. But instead of giving in to the bullies and talking about their mothers, I would simply just laugh (while lying on the floor holding my stomach) and say things like "wow, you're real tough picking on someone smaller than you...but I'm still not afraid of you." I was never picked on again for the rest of high school. Staying calm and not showing weakness or giving in prevails over name calling any day.

[SolomanKane2k8]

Ermmmm, you do realize it was a joke right?

[matrix86]

Nope...and that's because sarcasm does not work too well when you read it online, lol (plus I know people who seriously have that attitude).

[Charmolution]

@matrix86

And when that doesn't work, sing Sur Le Pont.

[TJPennington]

It's kind of meaningless to try and compare the races in Next Generation and beyond to modern cultures or countires. By that point, Star Trek had long since started to distance itself from that kind of labeling. The Cardassians are the Cardassians, Romulans are Romulans, Klingons are their own people, no longer the Soviet analogy some people thing they are.

Nevertheless, this is an excellent scene.

[mummra4ever]

I don't think so. For example I thought the cardassians represented the nazis and the bajorians represented the jews.

[XStormfalconX]

No matter how much you torture Picard, he won't tell you anything. He'll come back and kick your ass!

[RedLetterMedia]

One of the best TNG two part episodes. Or just any episode in general.

[Swiffness]

Picard wasn't tortured.

He underwent enhanced interrogation.

[username1105]

actually Picard is wrong.There are 6 lights.

[animeownage86]

This episode is always hard for me to watch... it takes a lot of guts to do what Picard did.

[StaminaAQW]

i love this episode! he gets a goatee XD

[GUAlliance]

Picard RULES.. They should of make 20 seasons of TNG! 7 is not enough

[audiowiz]

agreed!

[JayEey]

@audiowiz Yup, star Trek is very important. All the moral lessons still apply today.

[Mandarin2099]

holy shit, this rocks

[MortusSabre]

Someone ought to show this to Dick Cheney.

[101spacemonkey]

exactly!

[robbyalp]

What else apart from a bad childhood could let someone do such horrific things to other people?

And Picard is amazing as always.

[leenguy]

USA = Cardassians

[zombieflayer666]

USA=Borg

[MuslimApostate]

na borg are the chinese. US more like romulans.

[zombieflayer666]

N.Korea=Cardassians

[MuslimApostate]

well considering US isn't alone when it comes to torture i guess most of the worlds countries plus the islamic terrorists are cardassians.

[captainunload]

i guess it depends on the situation. i dont think torture is always the result of a bad childhood. thats an oversimplification

[qwerty1556]

fucking cardissain

[LivingForce]

Picard is the man!!!