Caturday Nerdiness
Jun. 11th, 2011 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wookiemonsterSo...whilst consuming brunch, Yoda and I watched the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Unnatural Selection" (a second season episode)...
Couple of things...
When they're approaching the Lantree (I think the ship used to be Shite-hoose), it looks like someone left their copy of the script on the arm of the captain's chair. I'll wait while you all run to your DVD collections and pull out the episode and check...
Next, when Riker and Data are looking for a sample of Dr. Pulaski's DNA... Okay, I can understand the need to override the lock on someone's quarters and start looking for something with their DNA on it. Still, their initial search seems...confused. What the hell is Data looking for on the floor and under the desk? Panties? Used condom? What??? Then he and Riker head to Pulaski's bathroom, and start going through her drawers (that can be taken so many ways, all of them bad), though Riker seems to be handling things like he would at a panty raid back at the Academy. Tucked in the back of one of the drawers is Pulaski's hairbrush.
Okay, how many people keep their hair brush tucked away in the back of a drawer? Other than bald people, I mean? Most people have aforementioned brush either on the sink or on their dresser. Did Pulaski get up that morning, say to herself, "I might find myself with my genetic code being rewritten so that I age more rapidly than a so-so top 40 song overplayed on the radio... To be a pain in the ass, let me hide my hair brush in a back drawer just so I know someone has to fondle my unmentionables to get to it..."
Lastly... Chief O'Brien. It's just about now that he (1) has a name and (2) people are noticing he's been in a few episodes and slowly becoming a recurring character. When they're using the transporter to restore Pulaski's DNA, the procedure seems to be not working at first. Picard is ready to say, "too bad, so sad, bye bye..." and, since reverse transport isn't possible, leave Pulaski as dispersed energy in space, but O'Brien interjects, does some transporter magic on the secondary, medical scan station, and presto-change-o! Pulaski is back to her middle-aged self! She hugs Picard, shakes Data's and Geordi's hands, and barely affords O'Brien a glance.
What!
The!
Fuck!?
Seriously... O'Brien at that point could have put on an old-series red shirt and said, "Beam me down to the next planet with violent inhabitants. I think I'll get better treatment as a martyred corpse."
Couple of things...
When they're approaching the Lantree (I think the ship used to be Shite-hoose), it looks like someone left their copy of the script on the arm of the captain's chair. I'll wait while you all run to your DVD collections and pull out the episode and check...
Next, when Riker and Data are looking for a sample of Dr. Pulaski's DNA... Okay, I can understand the need to override the lock on someone's quarters and start looking for something with their DNA on it. Still, their initial search seems...confused. What the hell is Data looking for on the floor and under the desk? Panties? Used condom? What??? Then he and Riker head to Pulaski's bathroom, and start going through her drawers (that can be taken so many ways, all of them bad), though Riker seems to be handling things like he would at a panty raid back at the Academy. Tucked in the back of one of the drawers is Pulaski's hairbrush.
Okay, how many people keep their hair brush tucked away in the back of a drawer? Other than bald people, I mean? Most people have aforementioned brush either on the sink or on their dresser. Did Pulaski get up that morning, say to herself, "I might find myself with my genetic code being rewritten so that I age more rapidly than a so-so top 40 song overplayed on the radio... To be a pain in the ass, let me hide my hair brush in a back drawer just so I know someone has to fondle my unmentionables to get to it..."
Lastly... Chief O'Brien. It's just about now that he (1) has a name and (2) people are noticing he's been in a few episodes and slowly becoming a recurring character. When they're using the transporter to restore Pulaski's DNA, the procedure seems to be not working at first. Picard is ready to say, "too bad, so sad, bye bye..." and, since reverse transport isn't possible, leave Pulaski as dispersed energy in space, but O'Brien interjects, does some transporter magic on the secondary, medical scan station, and presto-change-o! Pulaski is back to her middle-aged self! She hugs Picard, shakes Data's and Geordi's hands, and barely affords O'Brien a glance.
What!
The!
Fuck!?
Seriously... O'Brien at that point could have put on an old-series red shirt and said, "Beam me down to the next planet with violent inhabitants. I think I'll get better treatment as a martyred corpse."
