Star Trek: *hits blunt* The higher, the fewerrrrrr

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Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Responding to a distress call from people who died over a thousand years ago, that's kinda haunting.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:18

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 12:08

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Cool shot, my favorite thing about season 3 so far might be how much more visually interesting it is.

Such as the what-the-hell-were-they-thinking costume choice of not having Wesley's pants done up all the way in the back.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:19

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Picard is hyped about exploring the derelict ship because it reminds him of the ships in a bottle he built when he was a kid, but I wonder if he'll still be hyped when he sees a Promellian skeleton

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:26

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Picard is hyped about exploring the derelict ship because it reminds him of the ships in a bottle he built when he was a kid, but I wonder if he'll still be hyped when he sees a Promellian skeleton

This happened four seconds later and the answer is yes, he's still as hyped

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:27

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Geordi asked Whoopie what the first thing she looks for in a man is. She said his head. Geordi and I both came up with wrong guesses for what that meant, he thought "mind" and I thought "she's a phrenologist"

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:29

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Wesley detecting something "weird," hopefully it's actually ghosts like one of them jokingly dismissed

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:31

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

gently caress, the booby trap

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:36

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Jeb! Repetition posted:

This happened four seconds later and the answer is yes, he's still as hyped

For an archaeologist skeletons are just friends who don't get to meet you.

I'm being facetious but there's a cool roman gravestone that invites you to sit down and rest while you read about this dude lying here and then says bye at the end. Skeletons can be cool too.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:36

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Arglebargle III posted:

For an archaeologist skeletons are just friends who don't get to meet you.

I'm being facetious but there's a cool roman gravestone that invites you to sit down and rest while you read about this dude lying here and then says bye at the end. Skeletons can be cool too.

That is cool.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:38

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Lonely Geordi tries chatting up the old computer program he needs to save the ship. Sad!

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:40

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Whew, high rate of technobabble here.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:42

FredMSloniker: Jan 2, 2008; Why, yes, I do like Kirby games.

Arglebargle III posted:

For an archaeologist skeletons are just friends who don't get to meet you.

I'm being facetious but there's a cool roman gravestone that invites you to sit down and rest while you read about this dude lying here and then says bye at the end. Skeletons can be cool too.

Link? A quick Google search turned up a gladiator whose gravestone hinted he was killed by referee error, but not that specific entry.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:44

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Holographic nerdbabe accidentally created for Geordi

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:45

Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

FredMSloniker posted:

Link? A quick Google search turned up a gladiator whose gravestone hinted he was killed by referee error, but not that specific entry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggk_H3jEgw

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:47

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Geordi's wasting time making the computer synthesize Doctor Brahm's personality to talk to while the Enterprise ticks closer to annihilation

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:49

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Geordi and his hologram girl having an extremely heated argument that involves cursing and getting in each other's faces

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:54

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Geordi: "I know my ship inside and out."
Hologram engineer: "Then you must know me... inside and out."

:stare:

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:55

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Lol he's falling in love with her so hard

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:56

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

*beep boop* "there will be a 14 percent margin of error in the personality simulation"
:techno:

"I can live with that"

*porn parody version of a Federation engineer appears*

# ? Jul 3, 2017 07:58

FredMSloniker: Jan 2, 2008; Why, yes, I do like Kirby games.

Arglebargle III posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggk_H3jEgw

Thanks! (e: in case anyone else is wondering, the relevant bit is right near the end of the video.)

Also, on a completely unrelated note, I hit up a Next Gen transcript site to jog my memory on which episode Jeb! is watching. While I was there, something caught my eye. I hereby present some useless trivia:

There are 48 episodes out of TNG's 178 episodes (about 27%) that contain the word 'the' in their titles.
Of these, 41 episodes (about 23%) have the word 'the' as the first word in their titles.
Season three has the most occurrences of 'the', with fully half of the 26 episode titles containing 'the' and 11 of those (42.3%) at the start of the title. Season two has the second-highest occurrence, squeezing nine 'the's (40.9%) and eight initial 'the's (36.4%) into an abbreviated 22-episode run.
By contrast, seasons six and seven, between them, have only six occurrences of 'the' in the title, and only half of those begin an episode. That's about as many as in seasons 1 (7/6), 4 (6/6), and 5 (7/7).
Jeb! is currently smack dab between the second-longest ('The Ensigns of Command', 'The Survivors', 'Who Watches the Watchers', and 'The Bonding') and longest ('The Enemy', 'The Price', 'The Vengeance Factor', 'The Defector', 'The Hunted', and 'The High Ground') runs of 'the' titles, with only his current episode, 'Booby Trap', between them. Needless to say, these are all season three episodes.

FredMSloniker fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Jul 3, 2017

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:02

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Man it would suck to be on the saucer. Every week the ship goes on red alert and stops and you're not told why.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:05

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Geordi outrated that his simulation had to be stopped to conserve lifesaving power

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:06

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Boy, hologram girl's giving him a shoulder massage and everything

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:10

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

So wait they're going to get an almost-fatal dose of radiation if the plan works?

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:14

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

That gravitational slingshot move Picard did is physically impossible.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:21

8one6: May 20, 2012; When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Jeb! Repetition posted:

That gravitational slingshot move Picard did is physically impossible.

They did the thing. With the fields and the particles and stuff.

It's not magic because they used tech words. It's totally different!
:-p

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:24

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

"Every time you look at this engine, it's me. Every time you touch it, it's me."

Geordi is clearly one of those guys who calls his car by female pronouns and wants to gently caress it, and this hologram isn't helping.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:24

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

Jeb! Repetition posted:

So wait they're going to get an almost-fatal dose of radiation if the plan works?

Star Trek radiation is like doing a titration. You can go right up to the limit without even noticing and everything is fine, but you go one smidgen over and everything goes to hell all at once.

It's been that way since the original series.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:25

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

VitalSigns posted:

Star Trek radiation is like doing a titration. You can go right up to the limit without even noticing and everything is fine, but you go one smidgen over and everything goes to hell all at once.

It's been that way since the original series.

Oh.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:25

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

The holoporn engineer makes complete sense once you remember back to season 1 and the Binar holodeck upgrade, i.e. a deliberate plot to make the holo-ladies so irresistibly alluring that you will completely forget about mortal danger just to get with them.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:27

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

He kissed the hologram on the lips. What a loving waifu haver. It's even worse than when Riker did it, because he just wanted a hologram that'd make him feel irresistible like his hero Captain Kirk, he didn't actually fall in love with it.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:28

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

VitalSigns posted:

The holoporn engineer makes complete sense once you remember back to season 1 and the Binar holodeck upgrade, i.e. a deliberate plot to make the holo-ladies so irresistibly alluring that you will completely forget about mortal danger just to get with them.

Yeah I was thinking about all that as I wrote the last post.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:28

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Episode over. What a boondoggle.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:29

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Riker did it, because he just wanted a hologram that'd make him feel irresistible like his hero Captain Kirk, he didn't actually fall in love with it.

Mmm yeah about that...

let's just say we haven't seen the last of ol Minuet

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:32

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

He kissed the hologram on the lips. What a loving waifu haver. It's even worse than when Riker did it, because he just wanted a hologram that'd make him feel irresistible like his hero Captain Kirk, he didn't actually fall in love with it.

Oh boy

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:34

Jewel Repetition: Dec 24, 2012; Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Watching Boob Trap. That's not a term you hear much anymore.

*Booby Trap

Powered Descent posted:

Such as the what-the-hell-were-they-thinking costume choice of not having Wesley's pants done up all the way in the back.

I'm immune to the costumes. They can't hurt me.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:45

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Jeb! Repetition posted:

He kissed the hologram on the lips. What a loving waifu haver. It's even worse than when Riker did it, because he just wanted a hologram that'd make him feel irresistible like his hero Captain Kirk, he didn't actually fall in love with it.

Also when Riker did it it wasn't a loving realdoll of a real person.

# ? Jul 3, 2017 08:46