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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“No, Captain. When I say tomorrow, I mean tomorrow. I don’t exaggerate.” - B'Elanna Torres, such a fucking badass.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"You didn't tell him how long it will really take?" Scotty

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Of course he didn't! He already did it yesterday

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doing it faster doesn't take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.

Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you're ready.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wasn't there an episode where they said it would take like 24 hours and they were told you have 12 so the tech replied with "that's now how it works sir it will take 24 hours"

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

I remember that at the beginning of Voyager. Janeway tries that on B'elana and she responds with something similar.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love the difference between the 2 styles of engineering.

LaForge knows how to game the system.

Scotty knows how to play the people.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

LaForge is the kind of guy that always ends up putting his team on crunch time, because he fails both to manage up, and to create buffers for estimation errors or unpredicted issues.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's from Stargate SG-1. The conversation is between Hammond and Siler.

1x17, Solitudes

https://youtube.com/watch?v=omD4UhEB230

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

The actor who portrayed him was also RDA's stunt man in both SG-1 and MacGyver.

It became a lot more obvious when RDA greyed and Dan Shea didn't.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

If you want to skip the validation cycle, we can have it done in 18, but we'll have a high chance of blowing up.

[–] eddietrax@dmv.social 17 points 11 months ago

Under promise, over deliver. A true engineer.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Tbh I don't get these kind of memes, as far as I remember picard never really gives a deadline, just asks for it as quick as possible, with geordi busting his ass every time to try to get it done, regardless of whether or not it's actually possible.

And, in those situations, I really don't think picard is being unreasonable. When your options are "do the tech thing" or "have long odds at pulling something else off", asking for the tech thing as quickly as possible sounds pretty reasonable to me

Idk I'm overthinking a meme

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 11 months ago

we all overthink memes sometimes lol

you're not wrong tho lol

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago

Honestly, that is why Picard is such a great captain.

He trusts the capability of his crew, and let them do their jobs instead of micromanage. They know what is at stake and what deadline is possible.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stargate was so notorious for this that it became a running joke in Atlantis.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess we'll have to time travel again

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Time-travelling to get your job done in time? The Enterprise sounds stressful...

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That just made me realize how to tackle a post I've been mulling over. Thanks!

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Picard isn't an idiot and knows it doesn't take long to rotate a crystal.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All you gotta do is poke it with a stick and it'll be "repositioned"

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

"Kelvin Kirk crawled inside the warp core and kicked the emitter back into position. Show some initiative, Mr. LaForge!"