Riker is an idiot (First Contact)

[Docbrown777]

Seriously you are going to guess Bizet instead of Berlioz?!?!?. Come on man!

So ashamed. I thought you were better then that.

 

[cardinal biggles]

How would he know? He plays jazz trombone.

 

[Amaris]

Seriously you are going to guess Bizet instead of Berlioz?!?!?. Come on man!

So ashamed. I thought you were better then that.

Whenever I'm watching the movie and he says "Bizet?" I always reply in my best Picard voice, "No, number one, I'm merely relaxing."


J.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^

 

[arch101]

Riker just never seemed to be an Opera man to me. If the situation were reversed, Picard would guess "Parker?" and Riker would correct him with "Davis".

 

[Kirk1980]

Maybe Riker knew he had to say something stupid to snap Picard out of it

 

[sbk1234]

If you ever watch First Contact with the director's commentary, Jonathan Frakes has almost the same conversation with himself in a cute Picard impersonation. Worth a couple of laughs.

 

[Anticitizen]

Seriously you are going to guess Bizet instead of Berlioz?!?!?. Come on man!

So ashamed. I thought you were better then that.

Whenever I'm watching the movie and he says "Bizet?" I always reply in my best Picard voice, "No, number one, I'm merely relaxing."


J.

Ha!

 

[Mr. B]

If you ever watch First Contact with the director's commentary, Jonathan Frakes has almost the same conversation with himself in a cute Picard impersonation. Worth a couple of laughs.

You made me break out the DVD, but that was funny.

 

[David cgc]

I remember suggesting that Riker intentionally screwed up all of his attempts at identifying old composers to tease Picard.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

It's possible he deliberately messed up.

 

[Kirby]

Trek XI aside, I want to hear more contemporary music in Star Trek. That Picard/Riker scene could easily have been Village People/Abba (complete with Picard in his ass-less chaps).

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Trek XI aside, I want to hear more contemporary music in Star Trek. That Picard/Riker scene could easily have been Village People/Abba (complete with Picard in his ass-less chaps).

I've always wanted the characters to actually show an interest in the popular culture of THEIR time. Everyone knows all this random trivia about the late twentieth/early twenty-first century, but what the hell does the average Federation citizen do for fun - what kind of music is the new thing that the teenage rebels are listening to (oh yeah, Klingon opera. ), aren't there non-sexual holoprograms that are all the rage, isn't there anything that can be identified as being something that the twenty-fourth century has as a cultural trend?

 

[Kirby]

isn't there anything that can be identified as being something that the twenty-fourth century has as a cultural trend?

The problem with that is you get stuff that just looks or sounds cheesy to us. Gary Mitchell's "That girl was nova!" line comes to mind. 'Nova' might be a legitimate and trendy way to describe a hot girl in the future, but it just sounds lame to us.

 

[WillsBabe]

That line irritates me. It always seems to me that they were just going for alliteration, and it makes Riker (who I always assumed knew a bit about music) look stupid. It could just have easily have been "Debussy?" "No, Dvorak", "Schubert?" "No, Shostakovich". Irritating. But that's just me.