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Somebody on the internet is very good at subtle humor.

#StarTrekTNG
#Humor

@mmiasma

🤷 Don't see it...

Chain of Command (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia

@mmiasma

😐 OK. It's be 30+ years since I've seen that episode...

@Jason844

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. 🤔

@mmiasma fucking BRILLIANT holy moly...I haven't seen that episode in ages!
@mmiasma Okay, StarTrek jokes aside, how does a box labeled 5pack come with only 4 bulbs?!

@zenmaster

I've always suspected that some people in marketing can't count past five. Perhaps this is our proof?

@mmiasma @zenmaster thanks, now I have https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es playing in the back of my head again 😅
I Can Only Count to FOUR - Psychostick Numbers Bodies Drowning Pool Parody

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@zenmaster

They're Cardassian lightbulbs?

@mmiasma

@argv_minus_one @zenmaster

Of course, and apparently despite the picture on the box... There are FIVE of them! 😆 😆 😆

@mmiasma @macpsych Jesus. I guess I AM a Star Trek nerd. Got it right away.
@mmiasma @macpsych what are the odds that a shop would have both, that box, and a plush Picard doll? And what person saw the box and went to look for the Picard?

@europe @macpsych

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.

@mmiasma @macpsych

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.

#StarTrek #Mastodaoine

@europe @mmiasma @macpsych

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.

#StarTrek #AllStarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #Explorers

René Echevarria - Wikipedia

@darth_hideout @mmiasma @macpsych oh, that’s right, I forgot that Bashir is English. I don’t know why, but I always think of him as an alien (not from earth). Doctors are often to odd ones in ST

@europe @darth_hideout @mmiasma @macpsych

I heard the two actors didn't get along in real life, because of English/Irish political arguments they had.

@europe @mmiasma @macpsych

[Spoiler] He’s been illegally genetically modified, so maybe close?

https://c.im/@darth_hideout/113739941037705626

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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

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@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.

@europe @mmiasma @macpsych Speaking as an Englishman, I totally concur. *A British Tar*, *Mr. Blue Sky*, *Row, Row, Row your Boat* maybe, but not *Jerusalem*.
@europe @mmiasma @macpsych
They also at some point seem to be running Battle of Britain holoprogram and go to Quarks afterwards in their flying gear.
They engage in some British Pilot banter with each other and Quark. Then drink to memory of a fallen comrade from the simulation.
All rather weird.

@raymierussell @europe @macpsych

Oddly enough an Irishman fighting alongside the English in the RAF happened in real life at least one time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Finucane

Paddy Finucane - Wikipedia

@mmiasma I suspect that box is the result of shrinkflation; that scammy marketing technique where they seemingly reduce the price of a product, while in reality you actually pay more per unit. They just forgot to update the "5-pack" part of the packaging.
@europe @macpsych
@mmiasma alternatively it's likely that the image has been doctored
@europe @macpsych

@FiXato @mmiasma @macpsych I’m shocked 😳, shocked, I say. Someone faked something on the internet?!

That was my assumption, once I thought about it for a while

@europe @mmiasma @macpsych Store employees have a lot of time to notice things, it's kind of expected 😆 (from a slow day at work, with daikon)
@mmiasma I have to admit, this one is going over my head. Could you explain this one for me?

@Griff

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)

Chain of Command (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia

@mmiasma Aha! Thank you. That's very good. :3
@mmiasma sorry, i’m stuck on the 4-light 5-pack conundrum…

@argonaut

Someone in the response threads mentioned that they believe it was likely photo-shopped. I agree but it honestly makes the joke perfect.

@mmiasma it does, but my brain hurts…

@argonaut

You and Captain Picard both.

@mmiasma @mos_8502 but really one of the greatest TNG episodes. Top 5
@mmiasma
Definitely not a Cardassian.
Well, maybe Garak, he has this kind of humor.
@mmiasma oh very nice 😆 🖖
@mmiasma Thanks for the image alt text. Now I got it. 😆

@christian

I think you're the first person to have read the alt text. 😆

@mmiasma The first person who admitted it. 😉

@mmiasma

You need to be a real fan for that humor.

@mmiasma those GE LEDs run on the power of gas lighting!
@mmiasma
Ok, extra points for this thread just taking off in multiple directions 🪴

@AnnyJoe

It kinda did, didn't it? I post these kinds of things as more of a sanity check for myself.

Falling forward 🌵 (@AnnyJoe@mastodon.world)

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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