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Flying Squid @lemmy.world

1y ago

What is this, what is it for, and is it more important than the thing Spock looks into?

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Sensor bar for the bridge's Wii. The audience only sees the lights because cameras can pick up infrared. Data finds them amusing, and Geordi just filters them out; the rest of the crew can't see them.
- How good do you think Kirk is at Wii Sports Bowling?
  Do you think he gets practice in the bowling alley?
  
  Shot in the dark answer: probably not very (which frustrates him) so he cheats. Spock is annoyed because he wanted to play tennis.
  
  How good do you think Kirk is at Wii Sports Bowling?
  Probably not very, seeing as he gets a heart attack after walking from one end of the table to the other.
- Ever use candles for the sensor bar? That's a fun trick.
  
  Lol, can't say I have. But I did eventually learn that the sensor bars are just dumb IR lights that the remotes track rather than something more complex, so I can see how it would work.

- I was thinking Cylon Centurion, but I like KITT better.
  
  Either way, they both have it too!
  What is going on here?!
  
  “Engage”
  As you command

Those are light nodes for off hours dance parties. So, of course they're more important than the view finder doohicky.

They're in the Phoenix cockpit, too.
They're waymarkers. They tell you at a glance if the ship is going forward, reversing, or turning - and at what speed. However, their on-screen use throughout Trek history has been either inconsistent or completely overlooked by the FX department.

Those are boopers.
Aka monitor monitors.
They boop when your monitors are happy.

It's the thing that goes "boowoowooo." You know when it's all quiet on the bridge and you just hear that high pitched pinging sound? That's that bar right there with the lights. It is absolutely vital for the function of any Starfleet vessel.
- Ah, das blinkenlights.

I always assumed that was just the on-light for the soundbar, because the viewscreen's inbuilt speakers are dogshit.

That's the sensor for the remote control.
- Can they hook it up to Data for power if they can't find spare batteries?
  
  No need, Data has a built in RF transmitter, he's a universal remote control!

Tobii eye tracking camera

Mute indicator.

Those are the tractor beam emitters.
The ship's inertial dampers can easily stop the crew from getting thrown around from space turbulence or torpedo impacts. But if they let the ship's computer / Majel Barrett rag doll the bridge crew every now and then, it'll never go Skynet on them.
- Majel Barrett rag doll the bridge crew
  Don't threaten Picard with a good time.
  Or Riker for that matter.

I just love how I read every comment with complete seriousness just to realize all you guys are just joking.
For a second, reading that stuff is being a sensor bar for the Wii, I tried to imagine that on the ship just to realize what I read, but it was already too late.
💛

Oh that's just Hal. Ask him to open the pod bay doors. He thinks it's hilarious.

That is the kinect. It is scanning for ghosts...

The cylon brain that runs the ship

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