The Star Trek Thread

[Mongrel]

I think it's just a plain old typo.

[Mothra]

The most Thad post of all time

[Thad]

I think it's just a plain old typo.

Of course you realize you're the reason I assume every wrong initialism is some kind of meme.

[Mongrel]

I think it's just a plain old typo.

Of course you realize you're the reason I assume every wrong initialism is some kind of meme.

I wasn't even the one who started making fun of, er, me!

[Niku]

Thad will never again trust things being swapped to the wrong side so long as he lives.

[Friday]

ngl lie, in this thread, the greatest in the history of the forums, mongrel gets tb banned after 180 pages of heated debate

[Esperath]

You know how Friday sometimes says The Darndest Things(TM) to her friends?



This is one of those situations for me. Whenever I see a bunch of 3s IRL, I still say "DECOMPRESS MAIN SHUTTLE BAY" to whoever's around.

[Mongrel]

I couldn't say for sure, but I would guess that bits of Cause & Effect randomly comes to my mind more so than for any other TNG episode.

I mean, come on. Whether the story or the idea came first, at some point someone on staff was like "and then we blow up the Enterprise over and over and over! Kabbbboboboboboooooooom! Pfffsshhhhh! Arrrrrgh!" and everyone else was like "Oh fuck yeah!"

[Friday]

I basically only communicate in stupid memes at this point. My friends constantly tell me I'm a fucking weirdo who is impossible to understand.

To which I reply, of course, "aeiou. holla holla get dolla. football. sun also confirmed for flat. confirmed. confirmed."

beep beep beep boop beep

hello i would like to order a pisa katto.

no.

why?

because you are smile. sweet. sistah. sadistic. saprise. service! smoke smoke weed, smoke smoke weed every day-hey.


































































































what a shame.

[nosimpleway]

Friday, palm out, rejecting the premise. Spongebob, bespectacled, turning the pages.
Friday, pointing with one finger, approval. Darmok, baffling Picard.

[Büge]

sinbad

[Thad]

"Data wants to know how jokes work. Various characters cruelly mock him by saying unfunny things and then insisting that they are funny. Joe Piscopo guest stars." is a hilarious premise for an episode, but it's more conceptually funny than ha-ha funny.

[Friday]

Thad, have you tried rotating your timing 180 degrees

[Niku]

[Thad]

Thad, have you tried rotating your timing 180 degrees

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...no.

[Mongrel]

Could the above post be described as a timing chain?

[Friday]

[Friday]

[Mothra]

I've been playing a Star Trek Adventures ttrpg game with an Achewood group every other Saturday, and I gotta say, Star Trek does not make for the best fit for an improv adventure.

Turns out, being in Star Trek is essentially just being at work. Everyone is in their own specific room for their specific job, and when the ship encounters a problem, the problem is brought to the correct person in the chain. If it's a medical problem, it goes to the doctor, who must now solo figure out the medical problem. If it's a security problem, the player playing the security officer goes and detains that person, and then we try to stand there as players trying to figure out how the fuck the justice system works in a utopian future.

It is very boring! Nothing unexpected happens! We just investigate the problem, determine a course of action, call a meeting to discuss, identify who in the command structure has what responsibility, and then do the plan. That's the whole thing!

We don't even interact almost ever, because with the rigid command structure of Starfleet, we're essentially on a naval vessel where we don't really have reason to intermingle (also in this group doesn't really do in-character stuff or voices).

I dunno I normally would not continue to play this game but I do love talking to the other players about Star Trek for long stretches of time afterwards, so

[Thad]

I liked "Contagion" (co-written by Steve Gerber!) a lot, but you can tell it was written in the late 1980s by someone who just got their first computer because "try turning the computer off and then on again" is treated as a shocking third-act epiphany instead of with a dejected, slump-shouldered "Jesus, how did I forget to try this first? Again?"