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Arc Hammer posted:They also get confused by a telephone and the concept of room service. The telephone bit is evergreen, I loved DS9's crew being confused by TOS tech in "Trials and Tribble-ations." Also, having never used a rotary phone, I bet it would take me at least a couple minutes to figure it out.
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My grandma had a rotary phone, and it's like "wow, that's a pretty clever and easy mechanism considering the technological limitations of the era... And thank gently caress I don't have to deal with it on the daily"
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i don't think anyone has done it better than scotty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hShY6xZWVGE
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:The telephone bit is evergreen, I loved DS9's crew being confused by TOS tech in "Trials and Tribble-ations." Also, having never used a rotary phone, I bet it would take me at least a couple minutes to figure it out. Don't forget not know to grab the handles in the turbolifts. Also the gold/red swap.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Don't forget not know to grab the handles in the turbolifts. I like how SNW incorporated that into Enterprise Bingo. Brawnfire posted:My grandma had a rotary phone, and it's like "wow, that's a pretty clever and easy mechanism considering the technological limitations of the era... And thank gently caress I don't have to deal with it on the daily" My gramps worked for "The Phone Company" and had rigged an old-timey two-piece, tap-for-the-operator handset to work as a modern ('90s) phone. Little did I know the 23rd century survival skills I was learning at the time.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Don't forget not know to grab the handles in the turbolifts. What's the deal with those grips, anyway? Was it a 60's future version of one of those old-timey elevators that was operated with a lever? What's the modern nerdsplanation of why they're designed that way in-universe?
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Manual speed control of the turbolifts to make sure you get where you need to go as fast as the plot requires.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Manual speed control of the turbolifts to make sure you get where you need to go as fast as the plot requires. "Crank it! Crank the knob!" "Bridge, we're coming!" "Grab the lever! Crank it harder! We're almost there!" "We're so close, Bridge! We're cranking the knobs as fast as we can!" "I'm squeezing this lever with all I've got!" "FASTER, ENSIGNNMNN"
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Drink-Mix Man posted:What's the deal with those grips, anyway? Was it a 60's future version of one of those old-timey elevators that was operated with a lever? You grab the handle so the computer knows when to listen for where it's supposed to go. Otherwise you'd walk in, and go "Engineering." Then start talking to your friend "Oh man, I hear the bridge was a fiasco today, something about aliens taking over the first officer's brain?" Resulting in the turbolift changing directions, and you ending up on the bridge.
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They never showed it, but every once in a while, someone would get on the turbolift and hit the jackpot. They would get buried in gold coins, alive. It was horrifying, but part of starship culture.
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Ghostlight posted:i don't think anyone has done it better than scotty the dumb part is this guy who is used to talking to the computer can operate windows 3.1 like a data and wrote his own program or whatever in ten seconds because he is from the future
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Mulaney Power Move posted:the dumb part is this guy who is used to talking to the computer can operate windows 3.1 like a data and wrote his own program or whatever in ten seconds because he is from the future That is the space whales movie. There are no dumb parts.
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It's not because he's from the future, it's because he's Scotty.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:the dumb part is this guy who is used to talking to the computer can operate windows 3.1 like a data and wrote his own program or whatever in ten seconds because he is from the future  That's an Apple, which is clearly more user friendly to a future ScotsmanEDIT: Maybe he's got some Clan Mackintosh in his blood. Cthulu Carl fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 11, 2022 |
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star trek iv is a documentary and the events happen in real time
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Drink-Mix Man posted:What's the deal with those grips, anyway? Was it a 60's future version of one of those old-timey elevators that was operated with a lever? JediTalentAgent posted:Manual speed control of the turbolifts to make sure you get where you need to go as fast as the plot requires. Who wouldn't want a throttle on an elevator?
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What's the most relaxing Star Trek episode though my pick is Data's Day
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External Organs posted:The Bajoran Solar Sail ship episode probably. I'd second it, just because even Gul Dukat has to be polite and can't cause poo poo on the effort at the end. He has to sit there and applaud Sisko's efforts with gritted teeth and a "surprise" unearthing of a Bajoran Sail Ship on Cardassia because Sisko accidentally, and irrefutably, proved such a trip was possible.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I'd second it, just because even Gul Dukat has to be polite and can't cause poo poo on the effort at the end. He has to sit there and applaud Sisko's efforts with gritted teeth and a "surprise" unearthing of a Bajoran Sail Ship on Cardassia because Sisko accidentally, and irrefutably, proved such a trip was possible. Honestly knowing how actual fascism works I'm surprised they didn't just tell everyone that the Federation faked the entire thing and complain about the woke Federation media
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Kesper North posted:Honestly knowing how actual fascism works I'm surprised they didn't just tell everyone that the Federation faked the entire thing and complain about the woke Federation media If the central command was still in control that is exactly what would have happened, but the Detapa Council draws its newfound legitimacy and power from the shifting cultural mood w/r/t holocausting, esp. Bajorans. In terms of the ongoing narrative the solar sail episode depicts the near zenith of the Council and the nadir of Central Command and especially Dukat, charging up the friction that allowed Central Command to enact a coup of the Council via surrender to the Dominion.
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Kesper North posted:Honestly knowing how actual fascism works I'm surprised they didn't just tell everyone that the Federation faked the entire thing and complain about the woke Federation media They didn't because the Cardassian's aren't actually fascists, they actually take care of their citizens and have a strong social welfare system. The Cardassian system is authoritarian and imperialist, but it is designed to create an orderly society. And the Cardassian Government at the time of the solar sailer episode was trying to forge closer ties with Bajor to get more access to the wormhole. It was entirely in their own interests to admit to the existence of the original voyage once Sisko has proven it was possible.
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sweet geek swag posted:They didn't because the Cardassian's aren't actually fascists, they actually take care of their citizens and have a strong social welfare system. The Cardassian system is authoritarian and imperialist, but it is designed to create an orderly society. And the Cardassian Government at the time of the solar sailer episode was trying to forge closer ties with Bajor to get more access to the wormhole. It was entirely in their own interests to admit to the existence of the original voyage once Sisko has proven it was possible. Oh, right, I was thinking of the Dominion occupation
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Hollismason posted:What's the most relaxing Star Trek episode though 11:59 I dare you to stay awake through it
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sweet geek swag posted:They didn't because the Cardassian's aren't actually fascists, they actually take care of their citizens and have a strong social welfare system. The Cardassian system is authoritarian and imperialist, but it is designed to create an orderly society. And the Cardassian Government at the time of the solar sailer episode was trying to forge closer ties with Bajor to get more access to the wormhole. It was entirely in their own interests to admit to the existence of the original voyage once Sisko has proven it was possible. To be fair, unless you were really ideologically opposed to it, "strong social safety net" seems like a no-brainer legitimacy-booster for any society with access to replicators. It's not like real life fascist countries had no social welfare programs. For the "right" sorts of people anyways, which does sound Cardassian.
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sweet geek swag posted:They didn't because the Cardassian's aren't actually fascists, they actually take care of their citizens and have a strong social welfare system. The Cardassian system is authoritarian and imperialist, but it is designed to create an orderly society.  Maybe writers are bad at math, or maybe Cardassians are actually really good at worker safety, who's to say
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Tunicate posted:
Clearly forgetting that like 80% of adults work as Vedeks. The Vedeks got to just stroll around their gardens the whole occupation.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Clearly forgetting that like 80% of adults work as Vedeks. The Vedeks got to just stroll around their gardens the whole occupation. alright but how many vedeks met their end just during ds9
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Gotta be three or four, right? Bareil for sure. What happened to that guy who heard "caste system" and jumped straight to murdering his own monks?
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Tunicate posted:
I imagine a lot of that was "Kill this entire village for this one person's minor offense" every couple of months to Set An Example.
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Tunicate posted:Maybe writers are bad at math, or maybe Cardassians are actually really good at worker safety, who's to say
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Dabir posted:Gotta be three or four, right? Bareil for sure. What happened to that guy who heard "caste system" and jumped straight to murdering his own monks? He got a very prestigious position on Cardassia.
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Shakaar's disastrous agricultural reform and climate policies caused far more suffering than Dukat ever did. It's time to open up the economy, reintroduce the labor camps, and make Bajor great again #lockkiraup
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I’ll remind the Bajorans that they didn’t have all the nice roads they do now that we built to the space ports we also built (and then destroyed) to strip mine their planet. Also consider how well they now keep records of course a testament to our enlightening them.
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