Mr. Plinkett's Super Happy Fun Star Trek: The Next Generation Mistakes Video

Hello friends! It’s been a while... It’s me, Mr. Plinkett! Now, you all know I love Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’ve been watching episodes on the Blu Rays recently and I started to notice lots of little production errors. Things that the quick and dirty TV production of the 80’s and 90’s probably overlooked, didn’t notice, or didn’t care about. I thought, why not catalog all these charming little blunders into a video? I also thought to myself, they really could have digitally erased these mistakes when they made them Blu Rays. But they didn’t. They were TNG purists. No updates, no new visual FX. No "special editions"... I’ll take a show with good stories and barn doors over a show with a clean, flawless production and characters that act like grade school-educated idiots any day. Alas, to me, TNG is still a perfect show as even the best of us have our flaws.

[Sirthatguy]

It's sad people don't realize this isn't a Mr Plinkett video, this is just Mike talking normally now.

[kaiserruhsam]

i can't believe i never noticed all those giant white arrows before

[josephlascola]

Mr. Plinkett is so good at finding boom mic shadows from watching ghost adventures with Mike and finding orbs

[bootsthecat]

Picard taught us it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, but this show taught us you can commit many, many mistakes and still win.

[ironglaciers]

The random guy's hands and arms playing the flute in front of Patrick Stewart nearly made me choke on my coffee. Plinkett is right and I can't unsee it, ever, for the rest of my life.

[TheReviewHuman]

Wow Mike, the lady spilt hot chocolate on Picard, not coffee. I can see why Rich is the reigning trivia champion

[SekiroFights]

this kind of feels like visiting Grandpa and listening to his old stories that seem trivial and don't really make sense but you can tell they're really important to him

[realwhatbrains]

Riker: "Increase to warp 6"
LeForge: "Aye sir, full impulse"
Mr. Plinkett: "What?!?!"🤣🤣

[jamdoodles]

I love how Mike has rewatched tng so many times he just sees power cords and carpet squares now

[Edgffdgfgd]

It's kinda cute to see Mike trying to act like Mr. Plinkett to shift blame for this unbelievable amount of embarrassing useless knowledge.

[rando]

TNG: "hide the lights with black paper!"
Abrams: "ADD MORE LIGHTS!"

[shinespider]

The Picard flute hands thing is something I never noticed before but once you're looking for it it's stunningly obvious. Wild.

[Tetragrammaton]

It's not that they thought these mistakes/goofs would be hidden by the old TVs they were intended for, it's that they didn't think anyone would watch each episode 1000 times.

[WijbrenvanTuinen]

This is so petty and so wonderful for its pettiness. It's pettiness raised to an artform. This video is an ode to the madness of extreme fandom and I love it. How much time did it take Mike to find and edit all of these examples? Insanity.

[homa_]

Making rewatching TNG at high definition a business expense is one of my favorite things about RLM.

[pierdeer]

I can't believe Mr. Plinkett would do such a blunder and refer to the Holographic Environment Simulator (22:23) as an entertainment simulator, twice (22:39). I bet Mike wouldn't have done that himself as the senior Star Trek expert.

[ChronoKatie]

Gosh, Plinkett is able to so beautifully and elegantly shatter the illusion of storytelling in my favorite show and destroy the sense of wonder I feel. He's incredible.

[PinkPlume]

Mike's magnum opus. It took him 12 years to make; he grew up on screen, right before our eyes.

[MichaelRushMusic]

As someone who works full time in film as a gaffer and lighting technician, I'm honestly surprised that there aren't more mistakes like this. Hiding the production equipment, camera marks, and boom mics is a very big part of our job and its a credit to the professionalism of the crew that they did such a great job of that.

Just yesterday I was gaffing a music video and using black paper tape to hide a light and some reflections. The dolly grip jokingly remarked, "you could make a whole film with just black paper tape man, " and he's right. While there are some obvious cover ups on the bridge for reflections, there are probably a thousand other occurrences of black paper tape or matte card stock in shot that you can't see, even in HD.

I had the chance to work for Marvin Rush (no relation as we found out after discussing our heritage) for a few weeks a few years ago. He who was the cinematographer for TNG, Voy, DS9, and Ent, and it was really hard not to be a total nerd around him and relate every shot he asked me to light to some Star Trek scene that he had done. 😂

[TombunnyHunter]

I've been in a dark place, it has been so long since I've heard Mr. Plinkett. And now tonight, I can safely say I'm in an even darker place. Thanks RLM!