Data llistening to 4 musical pieces simultaneously

[SugarDemon1035]

IT'S MAX HEADROOM!

[xXLadyDataxX]

Data really has good taste in music =D I wonder what he would think of modern day music?

[straker1999]

That bloke takes Max Headroom the first CGI .

[jhertzbe]

I guess Data would be a fan of Charles Ives. :-)

[EduardoTVideos]

Starfleet don't give a shit about Apple. Because they use Android

[procast]

F**k this apple conversations. Just listen to the music XD

[eleriel]

Max Headroom!

[DarthRushy]

I'd love to have a "Data-type mobile phone".

[ChrisCa1601]

Fun fact: The role of Berlinghoff Rasmussen was originally going to be given to Robin Williams. But Robin Williams had to turn down the role in order to play as Peter Pan in the movie Hook. So it was given to Matt Frewer.

[PaperOkami]

Data is a major badass.

[Draknfyre]

@thisrandomchannel

Not a troll. The guy who was the leader for the team said it himself. Glad you found it on Google.

[Draknfyre]

@Ta1k5howHost

Digitally store it on a hard drive, they didn't.

CD's store information in a completely different way than I (or he) meant.

A song will take up 1MB per second in .wav format. For a 3 minute song, it would take 180MB. To store a complete album on the average hard drive of the day was impossible. And to compress it to make it small enuf would make the quality terrible.

CD's store information by pits and grooves. Playback is digital. Hard drives stores it digitally.

[Draknfyre]

@Ta1k5howHost

Maybe my initial comment was worded incorrectly.

The digital music revolution, as it were, was attributed to a man who worked at Apple, after seeing this scene. Without his inspiration, digitally storing music on hard drives would have taken much longer.

Prior to the invention of a high compression but quality audio codec, an entire album would have to be so compressed to fit onto a hard drive of the day it would make Edison's wax cylinders probably sound hi-fi by comparision.

[Draknfyre]

@thisrandomchannel

Yes, I am serious. When this episode was aired, storing even one song as a digital file would be too large for even the largest hard drive of the day. He was inspired to create a compression routine to enable this. He set his team to the task, and they invented QuickTime. As I said check out that TV show, and the guy himself describes it.

[Draknfyre]

@thisrandomchannel

You think I am trolling?

The guy who created the QuickTime format himself described this moment. Look up "How William Shatner Changed The World". It also shows how the guy who invented the first cell phone in Motorola was inspired by the original communicators.

I don't like Apple, but the guy in their team who created QuickTime gets credit for STARTING the digital music evolution. While they didn't create the MP3 format, their work led to it.

[MrLayThatPipe]

say thank you to this scene 

[Draknfyre]

You see this scene? This is what you owe digital music to.

The guy who created the QuickTime format saw this scene, and was inspired to digitally store music, so when he went back to work (Apple) he started them working on a way to do it. They invented QuickTime, which had the capability to digitally store music. Eventually this led to other formats, and eventually MP3. While Apple didn't invent the MP3 format, this scene led to it's creation.

[Yonkage]

The funny thing about those voice commands? I could click three "X"s and drag down the volume slider MUCH FASTER using a mouse or a touch-screen!

This is why these sorts of things are never going to be very widespread, except in cases where the hands are full, like driving a car.

[riaAZ1997]

i saw this episode last night and i had to find this clip. i just love data SO much! and just like they wanted me to i hated that guy SO much! the whole time i was thinking " kick his ass worf ! " i thought with him being the ships designated klingon we could count on him to kick a little ass but he never did. =( perhaps there was not enough time. thank god commander data was there! i like his way better.

[berner]

Would have been awesome if they were the opening credits to:

Star Trek (original)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Star Trek: Voyager

[tepples]

@BillTheWaterDrinker He's using the room acoustics to enhance the sound.

[tepples]

Once I listened to a Madonna song, a TLC song, and a Lady Gaga song at once. It was called "Born This Way".

[TheKhaosMagician]

He's playing classical music...

portal 2 anyone?

[FlowersInHisHair]

10 or FEWER, Data! Run a level 1 diagnostic on your grammar subroutine.

[h3lblad3]

@FlowersInHisHair

"I try to keep it to 10 or Frewer".

Huh? Huh? Oh come on, some people just don't appreciate good humor...

[CmdrTobs]

@FlowersInHisHair The modern vernacular is heavily mathematically influenced. Take the '<' operator. This is known as '*less* than' rather than 'fewer than'. 'Fewer' is somewhat depreciated because it breaks down in the modern world which is littered with 0 and -ve number concepts. -1 isn't fewer that 0, but it is certainly less than 0 on a number line or axis.

I can well imagine fewer growing totally defunct by the 24th centenary as our society becomes even more maths driven.

[CmdrTobs]

@CmdrTobs centenary! = century

[solnegrolunaroja]

Suddenly I imagined Data dressed as Max Headroom O_0

[IAmInACow]

Three people can only listen to two pieces of music at a time.

[demoniosolitario]

When we play 4 songs at the same time... WE CALL IT REMIX!!!

[MajikkaniHand]

@demoniosolitario hahaha YES!

But Data is failing the basics of the remix--he isn't chopping the music up or dancing terribly. :( Bad Data.

[opusndo]

It's the neighbour from Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

[jilliegirl1000]

150 eh? It's tempting to play 151 just to confuse the hell out of him

[avengemyclan0723]

I wish Data was my iPod... D:

[piratebri]

Data was basically capable of running the entire ship by himself. The dude was a worker!

[angelazrail]

that was one of the oprah's that the docter sang on voyager.

[pandagenma]

@angelazrail "You get a Data! You get a Data! You get a Data!"

[jeffryder9]

i really do like classical music, but don't people in the future listen to rock and roll?

[KaneinEncanto]

@jeffryder9 Ask Zefram Cochrane.

[newpageone]

first of all: Matt Frewer is awesome. secondly, did anyone else think Data sounded a lot like Patrick Bateman when he was explaining why he likes to only keep it to ten or fewer songs?

[crystallinentity]

@newpageone Yeah. I noticed Bale sounded alot like Brent Spiner in that movie sometimes. Like the scene with the ax lol.

[squidman22]

Classic unintentional Commander Data humor!

[Malachayas]

I love that he only listen to 4 music pieces because he wants to "enjoy" them.

[ariarox1010]

lol

[BlueMenace19]

data was the first ippod ever created.

[Yamazuya]

@BlueMenace19 More like the last

[workstrength]

I would always do the same thing as a kid.... watching two or even three TVs and having a radio on at the same time... would drive my mother crazy. I usually just have two things at once now

[MrJareth]

rock on Data! lmao!

[MisterSin87]

GAH, everytime i hear matt talk normally, like here, i always here the max headroom stutters in my head....VERY distracting...lol

[martinrking]

Max Headroom is all like Data you're an asshole

[rkmugen]

Respectfully, iPod/iPhone people, you are wrong. For you see, Data is an Android... with advanced multi-processing and multi-tasking capability he is, quite simply put, "the next generation of 'Does'". XD

[WilfredIvanhoe]

At least Data has a good taste of music. A true renaissance... erm, android?

[Gaaras1LUVER9566]

I try to keep it to ten or less O.o........ Data is too good for words. Lol :-D

[Satak8]

I laughed :D

[macafeek215]

I guess people didn't make music between 1750 and 2370

[LordMoku]

@macafeek215 Classical will always be classical, be it 300 or 600 years old :D Age doesn't make it any less enjoyable - it's survived this long already after all.

[Lazyguy22]

@macafeek215 They didn't make new words either.

[tepples]

@macafeek215 That or the budget of the show ruled out licensing anything first published after 1909.

[RubikCuber1]

"But in order to analyze the aesthetics, I try to keep it to ten or less."

Ahhh, Data. <3

[Jadeutschland001]

is that jim carrey??

[Sahuagin]

@Jadeutschland001 no it's Matt Frewer

[prcjac]

Apparently this scene inspired Quick Time...

[DeusExInfernus]

Am I the only one that noticed the "ass-check" on 0.05??

[justin306]

@DeusExInfernus what a dirty bastard!!

[MaidenMarian]

@BillTheWaterDrinker Perhaps he's trying to be more human?

[addesso1]

10 or fewer, Data. I should probably blame the writers.

[gbowne1]

hey its max headroom.

[Rikercaptain]

this is how they got the idea to make an ipod.

[artiste1212]

The pieces actually are what he says they are.

[luccaskunk]

holy shit, it's Max Headroom!

[purseus]

@BillTheWaterDrinker dude he'd be a walking ipod lol

[lyrwriter]

"...I try to keep it to ten or less."

Gah! Ten or FEWER. You'd think an android would have been programmed with proper grammar... *sigh*

[CmdrTobs]

... I think grammar has shifted. I think most people would prefer to say 'less'. Particularly when taking about large quantities as 'fewer' nowadays has connotations of smallness. Probably because people are more numerate and live more numerate lives. The word 'fewer' is not in the mathematical vocabulary. You would never hear a mathematician say a values is "fewer than" always "less than".

[luno44]

you fricken show-off robot. why don't you eat a magnet?

[MrWooaa]

he did that once. he shit it out and it gaind concosnis.

[Rajhoul]

All of the guitar solo's from Frank Zappa's 'Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar' and 'Trance-Fusion' albums stacked on top of each, would be something even Data could not comprehend without some difficulty.

[orlendatube]

ROFL!!! Nice!

[MisterVish]

Szalinski!

[grumpytosnowwhite]

That might have been the best youtube comment ever posted on a youtube video in all of history, SnarkLicker.

It really is just made of awesome XD

[AcousticTyGuy]

The time traveling guy always reminded me of a less funny Jim Carrey.

[Treemeadow]

The Ipod, the very Ipod that is so ubiquitous in today's society, was inspired by Data.

Long live Star Trek and it's influence on humanity.

[orlendatube]

you think data could handle ten women at once?

[grumpytosnowwhite]

He's an android. Of course he could. :D

[tepples]

@grumpytosnowwhite Yeah, an android multitasks better than an iOS device.

[Nodrog666]

I do this sometimes.

[TsumiESM]

I feel bad saying this, as this is one of the great episodes of TNG, but once I found out that Robin Williams was originally considered for the part of the time traveler, I just haven't been able to watch this one without sort of wincing every time Frewer opens his mouth.

Also sad is that Williams was asked, on more than one occasion, to play the role of a Q. Always had scheduling conflicts. What might have been... !

[spockismyguy]

10 or less. wow, thats pretty amazing. i usually have to keep it to 1 or less! jk lol

[fox2mike28]

I love that guy; I just keep waiting for him to go:

"Hey Szalinski, give it a rest, it's Saturday!!!"

or

"Superglue?!"

[nerdelicious5]

"Who does he think he is? Mr Wizard?!"

[astrosteve]

For some reason, the first time I saw this episode (when it first aired), I swore to a friend that it was Jim Carey in the episode, not Matt Frewer.  I actually argued with him over it.

[cassandra5322]

brandenburg 3 wins

[sgshaday]

Data = Ipod

LOLOLOL

[Treemeadow]

Indeed, you're right. The reason the Ipod was INVENTED was because the creator was inspired by Data's ability to queue music like he does.

[sgshaday]

Yep. Sci-Fi influences military, military influences tech, LOL!

[mharbaugh]

@sgshaday Your math is very suspect. Data and iPod are not the same.

[feelx92ger]

@sgshaday

iData (c) by Apple

[whale0melette]

oh fuck off apple people.

[GasSnake2003]

lololol

[kasrkinmullet]

Ah. The scene that inspired the Quicktime program.

[Latsch82]

Warum?

[RocktheSocks]

I actually heard it was this scene that inspired the maker of MP3s.

[Latsch82]

Ein Schwachsinn!

[GeraldRobotnik]

... was? O.o

[HAZELEYES777]

i forgot his name but i think he also played a weird sci-fi character in the 80's called MAX HEADROM or something like that..it was just a head on a tv or something..crazy for its time but popular! lol

[bandontherun74]

Who is the other guy in the scene with Data? I recognize him but I can't figure out who he is...

[vegeta002]

Berlinghoff Rasmussen, the 22nd century con-artist that stole a time machine.

[rob062388]

I know he played the neighbor's dad in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

[Kaireg]

Yeah, he's made of win.

[ssssroryssss2]

He is is is is is is is is the He He He Head! From Channel 4 in the 80s!

[Rohan2300]

.......you're good. very good. heck, I'm gonna put that entire post in a text file and keep it for posterity because all that awesome has clearly affected you too :P

[PetrosofSparta]

Apparently this was the idea behind the invention of the iPod.

[Medeasbiggestfan]

It's 'ten or fewer', not less! Who programmed Data's grammar subroutine?

[BulgeDiesel]

Ummmm...I'd have to guess it was, Dr. Noonien Soong. I guess he was not so perfect after all.

[hobbitdude19]

"You are an imperfect being, created by an Imperfect being." nuff said.

[cjk002]

I wrote Mp3's but now that I think about it, they were probably talking about quicktime.

[cjk002]

I was watching a History channel show about Star Trek, and supposedly the guys at Apple got the idea for Mp3's from this scene.

[VitalSigns1]

Bullshit I invented MP3's back in the late 70's

[Honeylard]

And I invented you in the early 70's!

[darkbosh]

The ultimate mashup artist.

[Shaun17170]

It took me a sec but...it IS Max Headroom! So that's where he's been hiding all these years, always wondered.

[SugarDemon1035]

OMG! It's Max Headroom! AND Data together? Both of my favorite guys in the universe in one clip!!!

[ruodrik]

I'm gonna try this, one of these days!! ;)

[DEP717]

That Science of Star Trek thing with William Shatner talked about this, this inspired the people who invented modern computer sound file storage!

Remember how few songs or sounds one could fit on the average compunter when this episode came out.

[fortheloveofLDS]

Data FTW. <3

[animeownage86]

Interesting fact this is what inspired such things as being able listening to music on your computer, the invention of the MP3 and Ipod... Thanks again Star Trek!

[funkfrost]

lol, awesome.

[kingsokka]

nice i like the both actors

[StupidVideoKing]

great clip...