Spotify: downloads songs
Me: plays downloaded songs
Spotify: buffers for five full seconds
Me: PRAY TELL WHAT FOR?!?
Damn, I forgot.
I didn’t forget that episode, one of the franchise’s best, I forgot that they used the AGT future costumes.
“DNA resequencing”
If someone in Star Trek is born with a bum knee, they just laser surgery the knee. Deformed backbone, replicate a new backbone. A lot of defects and disabilities can be solved by 24th-century medicine without involving genetics.
McCoy gave that old lady a pill and she regrew her kidney using her own aged body inside of an hour. Apparently, fixes of that type are an over the counter prescription and don’t run afoul of the eugenics laws either.
Approved genetic modifications is more for things like conjoined births or fetal organ failure. Too many toes? Here’s some special shoes, carry on.
As long as he wasn’t snoring, you can sit behind your dad and imagine he’s the one narrating.
“Oh god, not this shit again.”
45 minutes later
“But WHY does Abigail have to go to the nunnery? She didn’t do anything wrong!”
And TMNT.
It’s neat to see established characters discussing something we consider a given, but there’s nothing esoteric about it. Star Trek as a franchise has always been bald-faced about what the Kobayashi Maru test is and why every cadet has to take it.
“How we face death is at least as important as how we face life.” - Admiral Kirk, Wrath of Khan
“Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.”
“Enlighten me again.”
“The purpose is to experience fear - fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear and maintain control of oneself and one’s crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet Captain” - Spock and Kirk, Star Trek 2009
Starfleet learns two important things about each officer-in-training during this test. Whether or not they choose to ignore standing orders and face certain destruction to do the right thing, and how well they handle it when that gamble causes them and everyone they are responsible for to lose.
I imagine stuff like that ends up in every officer’s permanent record. I imagine it determines if Ensign Skippy goes on to command a first-contact vessel carrying the banner of the Federation or a patrol ship in Sol Sector… or be a Captain at all.
“You voted for us.”
Vitamin D.
Drywall?? I distinctly remember him pulling down load-bearing bricks!
Speaking of technology sins, there was that one Transporter movie where the guy plugs a third-generation iPod into a security camera via the headphone jack and downloaded a video.
I lost IQ points watching that.
From Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985).
Yes, it's a real video.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20696791
Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.
The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”Original post @ Mastodon
Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.
The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”
Original post @ Mastodon
Screenshot of Lemmy via Voyager of a meme and one of the comments replying to it.
The meme is a picture of an invertebrate and reads:
“This is Suzy. Suzy is a basal amniote.
She enjoys sitting in the sun, catching bugs, and laying eggs with extraembryonic membranes.
312 million years ago Suzy had two kids. One evolved into you and the other into a T-Rex. If Suzy isn’t metal as fuck I don’t know who is.”
The reply to this meme reads:
“Yeah, it seemed weird that Janeway and Tom Paris turned into this, but I get it now.”
This man is old enough to have voted for Roosevelt in 1944! (I assume he voted Democrat)
It cannot be overstated how limited budgets led to some of the best writing on TV. And this episode is one of the best-written in the entire franchise.
It's also my absolute favorite shot of Uhura:
Ensign Skippy was getting a little too political, so Uhura replaced him and fired the death blow against the Romulan Bird of Prey. And she just leans back and takes it in during this dolly shot of the bridge. Stone Cold.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19524185
Ol yellow eyes is rule
(Just a stock photo, but at least it's green.)
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No, it's the result.