Milcom MiasmaSomebody on the internet is very good at subtle humor.
Somebody on the internet is very good at subtle humor.
Picard: "There are FOUR lights!!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Yeah, I think it's been that long for me as well. I have no idea why I remembered the whole "five lights/four lights" hook in that particular episode.
I wonder if the younger me just enjoyed seeing Picard being tortured. 🤔
I've always suspected that some people in marketing can't count past five. Perhaps this is our proof?
Of course, and apparently despite the picture on the box... There are FIVE of them! 😆 😆 😆
My guess was it was either staged (somebody bringing the two items to the store and setting them on the shelf for a quick photo) or an extremely bored employee who is very talented at spotting object associations and is a total ST nerd.
I'm more impressed by the picture of four lights in a box described as a five-pack.
In related news, I happen to be (re)watching #DS9 #StarTrekDS9 - I don’t think I’ve watched every episode, and certainly don’t remember them all.
I am currently watching Season 3 episode 22, “Explorers” in which Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir get drunk and end up singing (rather badly) “Jerusalem”.
I’ve lived in Ireland long enough to know this would NEVER happen. I don’t care how far in the future you go, no Irishman is going to intone:
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
Never.
Who wrote this episode? Some English nob, I’m sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Echevarria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Bader
That's a fun episode. I forget that bit is part of it. That's all a setup for Miles nearly confessing his love for Julian, who, I believe, is supposed to be English.
Without going down a rabbit hole, there are a lot of flaws in the portrayal of race & nationality in the 24th cy in Star Trek overall, if you ask me.
[Spoiler] He’s been illegally genetically modified, so maybe close?
Attached: 1 image O’Brien: People either love you or hate you. Bashir: Really? O: I mean, I hated you when we first met. B: I remember. O: And now—. B: And now? O: Now I don’t. B: That means a lot to me, Chief. It really does. O: Really. And that is from the heart. I really do. B: 👀 O: Not hate you anymore. #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #Explorers
@europe @mmiasma @macpsych and how psychotic was William Blake to write it in the first place? Must have been out of his skull on shrooms.
Some seriously messed up songs written around that time. I needed to write a couple of verses of over-the-top bombastic jingoist anthem for a book. I used Rule Britannia as a guide, and I honestly couldn't come up with anything more extreme.
@raymierussell @europe @macpsych
Oddly enough an Irishman fighting alongside the English in the RAF happened in real life at least one time:
Sure. The joke surrounds Jean-Luc Picard (Captain of the starship Enterprise) being captured by an Alien species and being tortured and interrogated by one of the Aliens who tried to force Picard to say there were five lights in the interrogation room while there were clearly only four lights in the room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Someone in the response threads mentioned that they believe it was likely photo-shopped. I agree but it honestly makes the joke perfect.
You and Captain Picard both.
I think you're the first person to have read the alt text. 😆
You need to be a real fan for that humor.
It kinda did, didn't it? I post these kinds of things as more of a sanity check for myself.
This morning I had fallen down this thread. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mmiasma/114750971415165881 So when the dental hygenist leaned me back and brought the light over, the device was made up of five small lights. 💡💡💡💡💡 And I was waiting for her to ask me how many lights there were 😆 /5
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