Data is taking it literally (Star Trek: TNG)

[Yottskry]

Etymology behind this is: "Originally this was by the light of an oil lamp or candle. More recently, the phrase is used figuratively, alluding back its use before electric lighting."

[TVDandTrueBlood]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[nubcaekification]

picard & data sitting in a tree..........

[ddpsp]

*tap* *tap*. "This will need a completely new field induction sub processor."

How in the hell?

[beetsification]

@ :42, that girl in the background....schwing

[cornflakes002]

@beetsification Glad am not alone :)  I had a close encounter of my own kind when I saw her ;)

[C0LL1N]

i never understood why in this episode, data's rank insignia says hes a lieutenant junior grade, he was a lieutenant commander from episode one.

[nubcaekification]

@C0LL1N no one looks at those dots. cept u

[Kurbyxo]

I want my girl to wear that girls uniform

[ChiefTroll302]

Seems as tho "Commander" Data is only a Lieutenant, junior grade by looking at his rank pips.

[ndileonardo]

@ChiefTroll302 AAAH! You beat me to it! I was just about to post that. Good catch

[Ybarchov21]

Refresh the page and look at how long the video is. It changes from 1:14 to 1:15.

O_o

[HarPlayer]

@ : 42 the crew memember has some nice LEGS : )

[ortsa123]

He figured that out by tapping it with his finger?

[himethisisme]

This is a line from the original series. Spock says it to Scotty, if I recall correctly.

[zipsrule]

What rank is he?

[TheWeepingCorpse]

damn i miss this, when it first aired it was an awesome. I git my first sky tv dish just to watch it lol.

[seethebob]

@TheWeepingCorpse Netflix for me >=)

[zipsrule]

@TheWeepingCorpse You have to watch it with the original commercials to get the correct feel for the times. It is important to watch the show through the "lense" in which it was origianally filtered through.

[katsumorymoto]

that android is just perfect for our soulless, fascist technocracy utopia

[PaisGreenapple3]

It appears we will have to ignite the midnight petroleum, sir.

[ChrisspacePatti]

Data's rank pegs are two ranks lower than Picard implies. Anyone notice that?

[FCM415]

@ChrisspacePatti Yeah, it's missing one... But hes already lt. commander in ep. 1 right? Or am I too high right now?

[ChrisspacePatti]

@FCM415 No, you're right. He was.

[frogambassador]

10 people attempted to ignite a petroleum product at 00:00hrs

[linkingisnonsense]

Picard's expression at the end is like. "Great, I get Data's expertise, but now I have to reteach him all the shit we already went through."

[esthermlaw]

@linkingisnonsense Actually, I had always thought Picard looked that way because he was trying so very hard not to laugh at this reminder of Data's early naiveté and to figure out how to respond kindly to that goofy, totally-newbie-Data mistake.

[linkingisnonsense]

@esthermlaw Picard's thoughts: What is it I usually say in this situation? Oh right...Later Data.

[Kerpymon]

Watch this with transcribed audio, lol.

[jimbopumbapigsticks]

O'Brian was a dick from the start.

[Lightboxes]

DATA needs to download Urban Dictionary.

[Fletchisawesome]

Ah, O'brian. Ever the butt-monkey.

[ThePauleric]

Data is wearing Lieutenant Junior Grade rank insignia yet he is referred to as Commander AND in all later episodes he is Lieutenant Commander or higher, did one of the rank pips fall off or something?

[dumaskhan]

lol ah the good old days.....when shows were actually funny and fun!

[TheBlomberFactory]

doesn't Data out rank O'Bien?

[AliTubelog]

@TheBlomberFactory

by miles

[Brockhad]

I'm sure someone else mentioned it, but he should have corrected Picard when he was called commander.

[DataTasha4Ever]

@Brockhad Data is a lieutenant commander throughout the show. That he's wearing lieutenant's pips is a costuming goof.

[iwannaplaycs]

i miss the old skool miniskirts... the one in the background behind O'Brien and Data

[blacklotus808]

Ignite the midnight petroleum...

Great line.

[Kritickos]

funny how he just randomly walks in and out of the scene.

[harrypotterfantng]

My favorite moment in the finale! :)

[TheMissrayne]

"Ignite the midnight petroleum" -- Data is so awesome.



[gold2refine]

Yes, I just watched the first part of Encounter at Farpoint, and he had two full pips and one empty one.

[gold2refine]

Understood, but even in Encounter at Farpoint and in the first season of "The Next Generation," he was a lieutenant commander, wasn't he?

[avielMenter]

To be fair, I'd never heard that expression.

[TheVideoRadioStar]

"It appears we will be required to 'ignite the midnight petroleum,' sir." I love Data....

[gold2refine]

Why is Data wearing lieutenant pips? He was always a lieutenant commander. Also, Picard refers to him as a commander. This is a very sloppy slip up that I didn't catch when I first viewed this show . . .

[PivotStarWars96]

@gold2refine: Data (in this) has lieutenant junior grade pips, but I guess Picard called him Commander out of force of habit.

[heymrk]

@PivotStarWars96 Data was the only TNG character to not get a promotion in the entire show and the movies. This was a goof.

[PeachWookiee]

@gold2refine This is the last episode of TNG where Captain Picard is shifting between three time periods in order to stop a spatial anomaly from destroying humanity. It's the Q Continuum's doing, but Q himself is trying to help Captain Picard save humanity.

[magicstix0r]

Anyone else notice Data's wearing a 2nd Lieutenant rank in this clip but Picard still calls him Commander?

[Simgenx]

@magicstix0r Yes.

[TheBackOfTheBoat]

lololol Picard's face at the end

[BettyEigerman]

No I don't see it. His name is Miles o'Brian

[TheDorancd]

@BettyEigerman It's O'Brien!!!

[startrekmakesmehappy]

is it just me or does the curly haired commander whose name i forget look like Karofsky off of Glee?

[RetSquid]

Data should know that "zero hundred hours" does not exist.

[trlkly]

@RetSquid Maybe it does in the future.

[RetSquid]

@trlkly

Good point.  :)

[rgregoryoa]

ignite the midnight petroleum

[frogboy7000]

It's odd to me that Data can't process certain idioms, but can process others. It seems he doesn't understand certain things, when they can make a joke or an interesting observation about it.

[darketernal3]

"It appears we would have to ignite the midnight petroleum sir"

Way to recoin the phrase, Data.

[TheREGISMarkV]

sounds like you typical modern day know it all university student lol

[brownblair98]

It was at 43 seconds in that O'Brien realized that Jean-Luc Picard was truly the greatest commander ever. He would have to be,in order to willingly talk to Commander Data.

[billyboyjennings]

Stupid robot.

[snackman94]

It's funny that Data learned a new expression "It looks like We'll be burning the midnight oil" and yet he said it incorrectly to Captain Picard " It appears that we will be required to ignite the midnight petroleum". It's also funny that he asks O'Brian about the etymology of the expression; it's funny because O'Brian doesn't have a clue about how the expression came into common usage!

[darthdude104]

isnt data wearing lieutenants pegs on his collar and not a commanders?

[nazaxprime]

@darthdude104 Pips, friend. Pips.

;)

[darthdude104]

@nazaxprime same thing

[nazaxprime]

@darthdude104 Good point.

XD

I suppose we may as well add rank designators to the list as well.

[chundawunda]

data the walking tard-droid. gets into starfleet and then get onboard the flagship as a senior officer and then babbles on a about nothing to poor obrian. this is one of the many little things that has let star trek down over the years, and this opinion is coming form a die hard fan.

[Amar7605]

"It appears we will be required to gnite the midnight petroleum." Isn't that just another way of saying "We're going to have to use K-Y Jelly"?

[KISSPhace]

I was impressed by how pitch-perfect Brent Spiner was in bringing back the Data of Season One in his performance for this episode.

[quikgamer]

Gee. Look at how snarky O'Brien is here, imagine him after a few drinks, can you say angry drunk?

[piratebri]

@quikgamer lol i noticed that too, looked like O'Brien was ready to punch Data

[mdma4life]

O'Brian always sounds so angry

[curiouscolt81]

ah yes this is from the final episode of T NG.

[ekmad]

You sure this is from "All Good Things..."? They are all wearing pre-season 4 uniforms

[matheus330]

@ekmad its because hes traveling thought time hes in the same time as the first episode. started with q so it eneded with q

[DreiHundertftw]

Thought O'brien was gonna punch data.

[rosalyn484]

Aww! I love Picard's small smile on his face when watching this moment.

[bigbengamer]

His line would have been better said "...ignite the zero hundred petroleum, sir."

[PixelBrainMush]

Isn't that the guy who's always getting ticked off? Even though I prefer Next Generation, McCoy was the only one who actually made it funny to get ticked off.

[thebuckrogers22]

i love this part

[Mooretec]

@amperlimestone Just think of the novels he would read on the show, what there no better writer then Shakespeare in the TNG time line either.

[dm218704]

....wait, why does O'Brian have the rank insignia of an Ensign? I didnt think he was an officer...

[plutopianation]

@dm218704 There are a lot of inacuracies about O'Brien, it was later revealed he was tactical officer onboard the Rutlage yet he's an ensign here and a transporter chief later on. He must have pissed off the boss pritty bad to get demoted from tactical

[wadyano]

@plutopianation actually it is later explained that he wasn't an officer at all. not even an ensign. he was employed by starfleet in various engineering positions and was subject to all their rules. officially he still had to call an ensign sir, even if those ensigns were placed under his command in engineering teams. but he never attended star fleet academy and was not a commissioned officer at all. so he should not have been shown with any rank.

[nazaxprime]

@wadyano A little like Wess when he was hanging with the bridge crew before the academy.

[nazaxprime]

@plutopianation Scotch Scotch Scotch, I love Scotch.

;)

[mmmmmarcus]

@nazaxprime That would be inadvisable!

[Nopperabou]

"Hey we were talking! Asshole."

[monkeyg00n]

Love at first sight

[f38stingray]

Just wait till Data learns meme.

"The sensor readings are greater than 9000, sir."

[nazaxprime]

@f38stingray You win.

[trevenman]

It's funny, data shown some doubt/uncertainty about how to reply to Picard at 0:46.

[pinoi78]

A great moment in TNG's finale.

[GurmeetChris]

@pinoi78 can you tell from wich episode this was?

[pinoi78]

@GurmeetChris

All Good Things

[golden24680]

LOL Picard: Wowwwwww

[punkrockgoth1988]

Arg. I want to watch Star Trek TNG now!

[CoryMassacre2]

This is so funny.

[obiwanobiwan13]

He sure grew, didn't he? :D

[KingGalby]

Awww =3 He's cute as anything...

[FrukSkoFcsae]

is there any nudity in it?

[masere]

@FrukSkoFcsae Yes and I've seen everything!

[Startrekboy1138]

The lady in the background still has a TOS style uniform, And Data's rank is Lieutenant junior grade, huh?

[al28283]

@Startrekboy1138 thats not a tos uniform, and data was that rank in tng also

[Startrekboy1138]

@al28283 I know that that isn't a TOS uniform I said it was TOS STYLE! Other female bulk officers didm't wear those in TNG, I'm guessing this is the first season.

[Startrekboy1138]

@al28283 and Data was never lietenant junior grade, but he was a lieutenant.

[justinjsaley]

This was the scene that made me a Trekkie!

[DarkTowerTube]

Data needs to upload Urban Dictionary into his brain.

[El135o]

"DON'T you get me Irish up, meboy!"

[Qermaq]

So implausible. Even computers of the day could parrot back things exactly. Odd that he lacks this. Still a funny bit, and Spiner, Stewart and Meany are all great actors and pull it off perfectly.

[SirChaosS]

@Qermaq Implausible you say?? didn't you have any teachers say something to the effect of "In your own words, tell me what the books says on page 35" I was almost ready to agree with you until I watched this a second time, and realized that is what Data was doing. To show he had a grasp of the concept. (Me personally, I had 7 different teachers use that. 1 even went on to say, "Don't just parrot the book. Show me u understand it."

[Qermaq]

@SirChaosS You totally missed my point. With his vast knowledge, why would he be confused by a common idiom? Why would he need to ask for an etymology?

[SirChaosS]

@Qermaq because as Dr. Soong was constructing and programming Data, he was only concerned with the Colonists experience and knowledge. And quite possibly Dr. Soong, himself, was unaware of the idiom. I doubt there is a compendium of Idioms out there that Dr. Soong would have on Omicron Theta.  And IF Soong did know, I am sure he did not feel it necessary to clutter Data's memory with EVERY human Idiom from the ENTIRE human history.

[Qermaq]

@SirChaosS Ya but how long has he been in Starfleet, and how long has he aspired to be human? The dude's a walking Internet. That's all I am saying, it's implausible but entertaining due to the fine acting.

[SirChaosS]

@Qermaq Ya. I s'pose you're right. There was an episode on (here) recently that Data basically states how long he has been in Starfleet. I mean come to think of it, he really should have picked it up in the academy. I mean, how many students would NEVER use that expression. Though on 3rd thought. It didn't come up in boot, though, I did not go to the academy soo maybe. In the end I have 2 say that u raise valid points + seem to be right.

[stafflvr]

@SirChaosS wow, you need to stop taking this stuff so seriously...in shatner's words "It's just a tv show!!"

[WintergreenSparks]

@SirChaosS I was sixteen or seventeen when I first saw this clip, and it was the first time I'd ever heard the expression "burning the midnight oil." I've only come across it three or four times since then, and I'm a college student who mostly talks to other college students. It's just not all that common where/when I live, and it might be less common in the future when oil lamps are an even more distant memory.

[5visforvictory5]

@WintergreenSparks It's not that common to actually USE. But it's a common expression for people to know. I've personally never used it before in my entire life. But at the same time, I wouldn't think it odd if someone used it. In an age of full digital video, we still say we're going out to film something.

[orliluvr1432]

O'brian looks strange in red....

[blizzardballz]

thats one way to piss off a CPO

[bloodofthesire]

Captain Picard to the rescue!!! lol

[12NiBer12]

1:13 LOOOL XD

[focusandcreate]

data knows how to make a good first impression!!!!

[Amperlimestone]

In an era of comfortable and timely space travel, I've got to wonder how somebody still knows a phrase about oil lamps...

[ChristopherDone]

@Amperlimestone Same way Picard knows Shakespeare? ~\O_o/`

[albinoman13bt]

@Amperlimestone We still talk about people being in the "limelight" even though lime hasn't been used in a hundred years. Know anyone employed to pick nits? I hope not, but you understand what nitpicking means. I can tell you to rewind a movie a little to see something again and you know what I mean.

[Miracle490d]

@albinoman13bt I know that the midnight oil refers to the old oil lamps, too bad Obrien didn't know. But do you know what "Lime Light in things like show biz refers too?" That's an expression we use and like Obrien I don't know what part lime played in history.

[albinoman13bt]

@Miracle490d Before the electric lights used in spotlights and lighthouses, we used limestone. We took a chunk of lime and blew hydrogen, oxygen and alcohol at it and burned them. Lime will glow really bright when heated like that, just a little expensive to run though. It was actually developed to survey murky Ireland. Watch Connections. It's an old show, and it can be hard to follow at first but is incredibly interesting, but here is the little part about limelight: watch?v=qNvDyVRXS1Y#t=1m23s

[Miracle490d]

@albinoman13bt So it's actually a rock called a Lime Stone & not the citrus lime at all? For a moment I was thinking you burned the alcohol contained in the lime. I know that there's alchol in the peel of citrus fruits. But I wonder how you would add alcohol, hydrogen, and oxygen to a rock. Glass blowers can combine some substances blowing them together. Whatever it is,sounds like it can't be done by the average joe. Too bad could've been cool if you could use a lime like a signal light for SOS.

[albinoman13bt]

@Miracle490d Yeah, ground up limestone is what concrete is made out of. You can actually see the apparatus working in that link. It's literally 3 small metal pipes feeding the chemicals up to and blowing them on a small stone. They just ignite them and get the rock really hot till it glows. I thought it had some weird analogy to fruit originally too. If you could get tanks of hydrogen and oxygen it could be done, but since a few theaters using them burned down I wouldn't recommend it.

[1337melee]

@Amperlimestone to this day there are figures of speech the users of which do not generally understand the literal meaning, such as "son of a gun." Maybe that's why O'Brien couldn't explain the etiology to Data.

[SCRulerShinoda]

@1337melee I heard a story about the "son of a gun" thing. so I could tell you

[jdew84]

@Amperlimestone We still use many phrases today that were in use hundreds of years ago, and TNG is but a few hundred years in the future, so it is hardly difficult to suppose certain idioms would have survived.

[assilembrandywine]

@Amperlimestone Eh, these phrases get into English vocabulary and just don't get out. Like how we still say "Don't put the cart before the horse." even though hardly anyone uses horses and carts anymore.

[Jakomancer]

@assilembrandywine yeah and sometimes we say "I fucked your mom last night" even though she's dead.

[ratrat222]

@Amperlimestone We still say "sticks and stones" in an age in which it would be silly to use sticks and stones as a weapon.

[waldoman7]

@ratrat222 except that the full version of that "sticks and stones" quote makes it sound more like a quarrel between ordinary people or even children than soldiers.

[ratrat222]

@waldoman7 Yes, but children still have more advanced ways to harm other children with besides sticks and stones.

[waldoman7]

@ratrat222 point is that in general a spur of the moment fight doesn't involve anything fancy. people fight with sticks and stones all the time.

[DataTasha4Ever]

@waldoman7 The Doctor on Voyager uses a modified version though.

[mdma4life]

@Amperlimestone

From reading books

Studying history (in the case of the show the history books they're reading would be our current present) ...

St

[robinchwan]

@Amperlimestone because the good ol days truly were the good ol days

[elpeligrosortd]

@Amperlimestone obrien is old school

[sondano]

@Amperlimestone the same way we still know the phrase "Carthago delenda est"

[nazaxprime]

@Amperlimestone Its his heritage... O'Brien if from a long line of nostalgists and being the space navy, there would be no lack of tradition that would have bled into common vocabulary of any good shipmate down in engineering. He was nonchalantly demonstrating affinity and respect for history.

Example's.

Skylarking, Groggy, Scuttlebutt, etc...

I always wondered why he would not simply access his database to satisfy his etymological curiosity though.

What?

So, I'm a dork...

[drillococco01]

@Amperlimestone C'mon! He's Irish!!! They'll never forget! ;)

[keinve2]

@Amperlimestone He probably had no idea what it meant; things like that survive far past the time when they mean anything.

[candr]

@Amperlimestone Actually there are a lot of expressions that date back even further then it would in this scene that we use today. But you might remember that the military has a long tradition in keeping some of those alive and especially the Navy (which basically what a Starfleet ship would be.) From what I have seen of this show, and movies, tradition would still be alive and well in the future.

[PLURRingo]

I am going to say "ignite the midnight petroleum" from now on! XD Freaking priceless!

[CheezitsGoRawr]

@PLURRingo i already do. and the only person who actually gets it is my friend hannah. lol data rulez!

[BlackScarabZ]

Picard (since hes from when data was more human) is like WTF?

[ginuwine19]

data is the best , he takes in infromation, analyzes it and then applies it far quicker and effective then anybody. thats why he seems odd.

[NathanRomml]

ignite the midnight petroleum

[boyofdestiny1123]

I loved O'Brien in DS9 as well as TNG...

[pulpfictionost]

What type of alien/monster is Miles O'Brien supposed to be? Klingon?

[LenaCS]

@pulpfictionost OMG LOL

[HighlyVisibleNinja]

Wait........

O'Brian is a CPO Engineer, right.

Then why here is he not only a Ensign but in Operations Division?

[CaptainPimpSlap]

@HighlyVisibleNinja I believe he is a non-commissioned officer: Chief Petty Officer to be exact.

[hunoftel]

"That would be inadvisable" walks away

"We will be burning the midnight petroleum."

lolol, I LOOOOOOVE Data!

[masere]

What is the entomology of that idium?

Hmmm?

lol

[bucklaw]

Data was so stupid in the beginning.

[bucklaw]

Data was so stupid in the beginning.

[ruthelator]

Data exemplifies a person with Asperger's Syndrome.

[VitalSigns1]

LOL

[Xondar11223344]

This clip made me want to watch "All Good Things..." again.

[pfiberoptik]

Data should have broke out in song singing:

"The time has come

A fact's a fact

It belongs to them

Let's give it baaaaaaack

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning....."

[In0tuhTR3KKi3]

"It appears we will be igniting the midnight petroleum sir"

got to love Data.

If you notice, Q normally wears 4 pips to annoy Picard.

and... Troi takes the bridge officer's test in S7 and becomes a full Commander. thats in ep. "Thine Own Self"