Meanwhile, in Voyager at Ensign Harry Kim’s quarters during their final approach to Earth:
Printer driver failure: All hands abandon ship!
Submitted 1 year ago by MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world to risa@startrek.website
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echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It would kind of fit in with their sort of futuristic yet not exactly aesthetic.
Yes thank you ensign for writing that report up on your tablet computer, now of course because email apparently doesn’t exist you’ll have to physically leave the tablet with me and go get a new one.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun fact, TNG basically invented tablets.
brianorca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
2001 A Space Odyssey had a tablet they used to watch TV.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Killing email is a honestly a greater feat than achieving communism. I salute the federation
567PrimeMover@kbin.social 1 year ago
The monkey paw curls: Email has been lost to the sands of time, but somehow fax is still in regular use
Richard@startrek.website 1 year ago
I know that this is a lighthearted place, but why do you think so? E-Mail is one of the most democratic and equity promoting forms of communication there is through its decentralisation and open standardisation. It would be the very kind of thing the Federation would want to preserve or introduce itself.
Khorgor666@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s so funny when they go on board a shuttle and have a bag full of datapads with them because somehow it’s one book per pad.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 year ago
How does one prepare for maximum acceleration on the Enterprise? Put on their seatbelt, no wait LOL
gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just for theatrics. Inertial dampers practically negate any notion of movement.
Ex: TNG S4E3 “Brothers”: Data commandeers the Enterprise in response to Soong’s homing circuit. Due to the lockouts, Riker mentions that “The only way we knew we’d come out of warp was by looking out a window.”
Doug@midwest.social 1 year ago
Except they break like Holodeck safety protocols
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“ah, buckle this…. Ludicrous speed, go!”
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 year ago
Is this why the children are always doing stuff like sculti in gb with sharp tools?
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Wearing skants no doubt
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
django@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’d assume the printouts to be produced by the replicators.
Digestive_Biscuit@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They replicate a dot matrix printer which prints the message.
wjrii@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's the future, though, so I bet they're all 24-pin dot matrix that can use A4 or letter paper.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I laughed so hard omg 🤣
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s the fax machines from Back to the Future II.
YOU’RE FIRED
verity_kindle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Take my upvote, anyways, you’re a treasure who remembers the eighties
567PrimeMover@kbin.social 1 year ago
If you think transporter room duty is boring, imagine being the poor ensign assigned to your deck's 2280's era dot-matrix printer in case the captain decides to switch it up. Actually, I think that would have potential to be a pretty good gag on Lower Decks
paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you think transporter room duty is boring,
Side note: why are they even using the transporter room at all? Site-to-site transport exists, and the transporter can be controlled from any terminal.
So why, when there’s an emergency, do people frantically run to the turbolift, traverse a dozen decks, run along corridors, enter the transporter room and jump unto those little platforms, when they could just beam to wherever they need to go right from where they’re standing?
Same question about medical emergencies - why is it not standard procedure to simply beam people to sickbay? Instead, doctors are running along corridors, taking turbolifts up and down and across decks, running some more along corridors, only to arrive at a patient and declare “bring him to sickbay immediately!!!”
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My head-canon for this is that site-to-site transport is only safe in ideal conditions.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Don’t try to think about actual transporters, the more you think about it the more broken it gets.
I was thinking about it once and ended up at slavery.
constantokra@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Site to site transport is effectively twice the number of transports. People are doing jobs. It might not be the best for them to immediately be beamed to where they need to go, because they might be doing something important. They’re generally transporting a few stationary people one place. Their capacity could easily get overloaded trying to get a bunch of excited, moving people to their stations. If they’re having to do it in shifts, and waiting for confirmation from each person that they’re ready to go, I could imagine it simply being faster and more efficient to walk or use turbo lifts. Plus, that leaves transporters free for emergencies that may arise, or crew members who really can’t get to their post quickly.
As far as medical issues go, I can see a whole lot of reasons it might not be safe to move an injured person, and you also don’t want a doctor blindly transporting into an area that might have a danger that just injured someone.
Even just from a safety standpoint, you’ve just identified that some shit is going down. Why put people in a transporter buffer, where a power surge or failure would mean mass casualties. It’s a good standard procedure even if it’s only meant to not incentivize an immediate attack specifically designed to kill a massive amount of people transporting around the ship. Why distract the crew members doing important tasks with dozens of people materializing around them? With all the movement on the ship, i’d think it would take exponentially more capacity just to track the surroundings and make sure the area where someone is materializing is empty. I assume the transporter is sophisticated enough to handle all this, but it has to have an impact on capacity.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My best guess is that it’s because transporters use radio wave type stuff to move you around, so beeming through too much metal or other substances can be a problem
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 year ago
That was a plotline in Voyager.
There’s a bunch of people whose whole job is running around decks of the ship transporting messages which could have been emails.
cam_i_am@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PC load letter?
cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
After that first time, everyone would jump to check printers.
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Every time that dot matrix sound started everyone’s butt would clench.
htrayl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Print()
NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think everyone is taking the print too literally. This same command could also mean “display this text on screen on all decks”
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s how I understood it. Every display console got a notification.
Zron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those poor bastards in the bathrooms that got their spines snapped in half by the tank on the toilet.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 year ago
This reminds me of when I was in high school, we found out how to get access to the command prompt on the school computers, so naturally the very first thing my friend does: “net send * PENIS”
There was an announcement for him to go to the principals about 5 minutes after that and he lost computer privileges for a while.
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
He may have lost computer privileges, but he won the penis game rather spectacularly.
I am reminded of Sherlock sms’ing everyones phone at the same time.