Captain Picard’s line explained “There are four lights”

You may have seen the online MIM: Captain Piccard (Patrick Stewart), other than Shavin, Higard, with spitting stains on his mouth, screaming with the phrase “there! Four! Even those who did not see “Star Trek: The Next Generation” may find themselves surprised by the return, as Picard is well known, even outside the Trekkies circles, as strict and generous. What was happening to Picard to the point that it was meager, and what does this phrase mean?

Any Trekkie can also tell you, the phrase comes from the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” “Series of Leadership” (14 and 21 December 1992), a two -part episode of the sixth season of the exhibition. In the first part, Picard, Wourf (Michael Dorn), Dr. Kreaker (Gates McFaden) was requested from the USS Corporation for a secret investigation into a possible metagin weapon that is developed by Kardianz. They have to meet both black cats and secretly infiltrate a distant cave on a remote planet, looking for evidence. It is dangerous and dangerous, and no one is enthusiastic about his existence. Once again on the institution, Picard has been replaced Captain Gilico (Rooney Cox)Captain Captain, directed towards the rules with a tired command style. Jellico, Enterprise crew, and viewers, states that Starfleet officers are just employees, and that managers can be replaced with Starfleet whims.

At the end of the first part, it was revealed that the metagin weapon was just a hoax, a trap that Cardian designed. Picard is kidnapped before he is able to escape, and finds himself in one of the families of Gold Master (David Warner). MADRED needs information about a nearby union planet Cardianz as a military aspire … MADRED will use any means at his disposal to obtain information. The second part of the “Leadership Series” mostly revolves around how to torture MADRED, ridicule, and ridicule Picard to get information.

But it was not the information that was after it …

Gul Madred uses every torture in the book. Picard’s body is grown with a device that stimulates torment, which it can activate by remote control. If Picard does not say anything he wants to hear, MADRED can press a button, and Picard will fall out of pain. Madred is not only interested in information. In fact, it barely looks in a hurry. He is pleased to torture Picard. Kardian begins mocking the captain, indicating it only as a “human”, and his manual work appears to his nine -year -old daughter. The daughter is not annoying, as her father explains that humans do not feel love or emotions the way Kardian does. Madred feeds on increased foods, dictates by his wrists, and leaves him to sleep on the floor.

In a frequent test, real motives are concentrated. There are four bright lights on the wall behind Madred. He stands in front of them, runs them, and asks Picard about a number he sees. Picard says there are four. Madred activates the institution. No, Picard corrects, there are five lights. Master insists that Picard tells him that there are five lights. This is not important for tactics or seeking to recover information. This is about the power of will. The goal of Master is to break the souls of Picard.

At the end of the episode, the Foundation obtained a decrease in Cardianz and Captain Picard. It will be saved. Picard does not know this yet, so Madred will play one last game. It tends near, and makes a show. He will be released and a new house will be given … if he admits that he sees five lights. For a moment, Picard stare at the lights, finally not sure. Maybe … there are five lights. At that moment, the soldiers enter the room to accompany Picard to the homeland.

And while he was ouster away, Picard turns and insists, “There! Four! Lights!”

His intention was returned.

Although it is not complete. In conclusion, Picard admits that his souls have already been broken. There was a moment, he says, he saw five lights. I worked as a cruelty. It is the conclusion of chilling One of the best episodes of the series.

George Orwell readers “eighty-four” of George Orwell-and indeed anyone familiar with the propaganda machines-will understand what Gul Madrd does. Some more context: Madred is the highest level in Cardian leadership seriesDescending from a society that appreciates the military power and loyalty to the state. Cardianz is a clear counterpart to the Nazis, and he later made it clear that they occupied a planet Bajur, causing a large percentage of the population. It is a volatile country, which regularly includes advertising. The state lives above everything in society.

Sports falsehood 2+2 = 5 is common in advertising criticism. Returning to the eighteenth century, the equation has become people who surrender their free will to the state, a evil entity that controls the nature of the truth. In these systems, if the state says that 2+2 = 5, then this is the new truth. Do not care that it is clearly incorrect, one cannot disagree with the state. The famous George Orwell used “2+2 = 5” in “Nine Eighty”, where several characters notice that two plusy can already be five if the government is issued. It was not important that the government change the material reality, only that the population believed its copy of it.

When Jul Madid was shown the four lights, he stood in the middle, with two on his left, and two on his right. It was the fifth light. Two plus two equals five. Master was a symbol of the totalitarian system demanding the citizen to believe a lie. The ruling is not related to military invasion, land ownership, or weapons control. It comes to forcing citizens to believe – really believe – in a wrong reality. The book “Series of Command” knew what they were doing.