"Chaos on the Bridge" Now on Netflix streaming in the US

[LeadHead]

Hey guys, not sure if this has been posted here already. (I did look, but didn't find anything)

I was pleased this morning to see that "Chaos on the Bridge" was suddenly available on Netflix!

(I'm in the USA, I know the streaming options can vary country by country)

Enjoy!

 

[Doug Otte]

I found out from another website forum that it's on Netflix, and I watched it last night. I enjoyed it, much more than The Captains. I guess other actors, such as Sirtis or Spiner, didn't want to participate?

When Torme told the story about a writer being fired by Roddenberry, he was talking about himself, correct?

And, I disagree w/ Moore's extreme opinion that the first two seasons are "unwatchable." Yes, there were growing pains, and some of the early episodes were stilted and preachy, but I still enjoy a lot of it.

 

[Richard Baker]

I watched it last night on Netflix. Interesting information but I found the heavy use of the cartoon representations of the people involved rather distracting.

 

[Maurice]

Re the animation, since a number of those people are dead, notably Roddenberry and Maizlish, they had to do something to put them in the story with the people who were alive to be interviewed. I'm not 100% in love with the way they did it, but it was an effective technique.

 

[XManRCJ]

Heh, watched it and thought it was a good watch. Finally, we got an answer to Muldaur and the rest of the crew...

 

[Maurice]

Well, we got a very brief "answer". Muldaur talks about it in more depth in her Archive of American Television interview.

 

[XManRCJ]

But we also got Patrick Stewart's side as well. Not that it was a Mulgrew/Ryan spat, but sounds like she never bothered to integrate herself into the cast/crew.

 

[DataRules]

Re the animation, since a number of those people are dead, notably Roddenberry and Maizlish, they had to do something to put them in the story with the people who were alive to be interviewed. I'm not 100% in love with the way they did it, but it was an effective technique.

I was LMAO at the 'flying toupee'!

Overall, I thought the documentary was well done. Got me feeling all nostalgic. Thinking of a rewatch...

 

[Terok Nor]

Moore is just too much. The first 2 seasons aren't great but certainly aren't unwatchable, especially Season 2.

The Measure of a Man, Q Who?, A Matter of Honor, Contagion, Elementary, Dear Data to name but a few are up there with some of the best Star Trek episodes and that's just a selection from Season 2.

 

[Indysolo]

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed season 2 when I re-watched it in HD. It has a bad reputation, but when you actually watch it, there's more good than bad.

I enjoyed Chaos on the Bridge, but I wish it was even more in-depth regarding Maizlish and his extracurricular activities.

Neil

 

[Kor]

"Wackydoodle vision of the future."

And the animation reminded me of the new "Cosmos" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, except more comical.

Kor

 

[Trek Survivor]

Moore is just too much. The first 2 seasons aren't great but certainly aren't unwatchable, especially Season 2.

The Measure of a Man, Q Who?, A Matter of Honor, Contagion, Elementary, Dear Data to name but a few are up there with some of the best Star Trek episodes and that's just a selection from Season 2.

Agreed, I really don't like Moore and his attitude to any Trek that he didn't have a hand in. These days, his ego does the talking with most things.

Season 2 is great; season 1 is OK.

I really enjoyed this documentary (and found the cartoons amusing). I would've just loved it to be longer.

 

[Terok Nor]

Moore is just too much. The first 2 seasons aren't great but certainly aren't unwatchable, especially Season 2.

The Measure of a Man, Q Who?, A Matter of Honor, Contagion, Elementary, Dear Data to name but a few are up there with some of the best Star Trek episodes and that's just a selection from Season 2.

Agreed, I really don't like Moore and his attitude to any Trek that he didn't have a hand in. These days, his ego does the talking with most things.

Season 2 is great; season 1 is OK.

He seems to be completely full of his own self importance. Star Trek existed before and after him. He has done a lot of great stuff but others also did amazing work on TNG before he arrived.

 

[Mojochi]

Is Maurice Hurley a little nutty, or what?

 

[Saul]

The music and animation was very off putting and the way they set it up at the beginning too really tries to show most of the people in it in a negative light.

 

[JohnnyTenToes]

I don't have Netflix but rented this from Vimeo. It was a pretty entertaining doc. A bit too much negativity for my tastes tho

 

[Maurice]

TNG's first few years were famously a big ugly production mess. So what did people expect? Positivity? I'm genuinely curious.

 

[Mojochi]

Well, TV show "Chaos" is hardly a worthwhile concept for a full blown documentary, IMHO. The whole thing smelled faintly of a video recorded gossip column, with people clamoring to air their dirty laundry, play victim or cast aspersions. Not much purpose there. Kind of the lowliest goal for documenting something. It's not like this was ground breaking secrets from within the Watergate scandal, that sheds new light on the event. At the end, I kind of felt like " Meh... So that was kind of pointless & meandering. What's this thing trying to say? "Chaos"? So what?"

 

[tomalak301]

Just watched it and really enjoyed it. Some of the animation was a little distracting but the information about the first two years was really interesting. Hurley comes off as a bit of a prick and Moore loves to stroke his own ego. Season 1 and 2 were not unwatchable. They were not as good as the later years but I would put Conspiracy, Measure of a Man and Q Who amongst the great episodes.

I do wish it was a little longer though. Loved the wackie doodle song at the end for some random reason.

 

[RAMA]

Frankly a lot of the stuff in the documentary was known even back in 1988-89, after STNG was through half a season and into the strike. Shatner started to hear about it as he made the convention circuit with STNG cast members.

It's really odd, my wife disliked the interstitial animation but I thought it was a good illustration of events since there was no film of it. I didn't expect to see so many people dislike that element.

Some other musings:

I--as others do-- feel the first 2 seasons have their charm, and that the music and photography were superior. A heavy dose of nostalgia helps too. This was the show that brought back star trek on TV and proved the naysayers wrong. I loved that.

Ugh, I groan at people like Maurice Hurley. Granted he bought into Gene's philosophy but he's like a lot of people and assumes that humanity will be worse and that it's a GIVEN. While I don't feel humanity can be perfected or we'll live in a "utopia" there is an equal or better chance that many themes and occurrences from the "positive" side of Star Trek can and will come to pass. There is plenty of demonstrable evidence of the evolution of man socially and technologically. I do think the mechanisms of those occurrences will be much different than Gene thought however.

RAMA