The way he says it makes perfect sense to me from a programmer point of view.
First, type of drink Second, subtype Third, whether its hot or cold
Although technically, you wouldn't have a cold earl grey tea, but still. It makes sense.
I’ve had an iced earl gray.
But people can ask the replicator for an item any old way and it seems to work fine.
Yeah but did replicators work the same way when Picard was a young lad having his first cup of Earl Grey?
No replicators. Only the real thing.
Fake mother, notwithstanding.
“Hot Earl Grey tea.”
*saucer section rotates 180 and reattaches*
If you order English Breakfast the computer schedules your next transporter "accident."
Is it the computer or is it this proud Irishman?
Who do you think set up the computer?
Always make sure to conspicuously order Irish breakfast tea when the O’Brien is around to ensure proper transporter safety protocols.
If he finds out that you ordered a pint of Guinness cold instead of room temperature, he'll just stab you himself to be sure.
Find hot-tea grey-earls in your area!
Type/variant/temp
Makes sense to me 🤷♂️
I would think a computer that can make a living person on the holodeck just by telling it to beat Data can handle "tea, Earl Grey, hot" or "Earl Grey tea, hot" or "hot Earl Grey tea."
Edit: Really, it should just know what Picard means when he says "tea" after he's done it multiple times.
It's also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy. Remember how they walk around delivering tablets to people for the mail?
Little details about how technology would actually develop stand out super bad when they get close but just miss how things actually went.
It's also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy.
Yeah TNG pilot literally has a character go "Oh you've never been on one of these Galaxy class ships" to Riker, after which she shows that you can ask directions from the computer. And then helpful arrows start blinking to direct Riker to the holodeck. (I don't know if those guiding lights are ever seen again in the canon. Might be, I'm too lazy to find out rn.)
Majel Barrett sounded so young, I just watched that episode a couple of days ago.
One episode of Voyager made me giggle a bit. It's a ship with "bio-neural circuitry". One cold open, there's some phenomena they want to look at, so Chakotay tells Seven who then assigns an ensign to take a pad to B'elanna in engineering with the turbolift, and then B'elanna sends a "power requisition" through another person, via a pad, to the theoretical physicist somewhere in the bowels of the ship, who then has a bit of a chat with the person delivering the pad and then enters the changes into his work station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ud8HJgUoQs
I get that with ships that complex, you might have people at different points verifying the commands, so that it's not just automated, but since they're all connected, what's the point of physically walking the pads there?
And that episode aired in 2000.
In what I suspect was an unintentional callback, there's an episode of Strange New Worlds where the computer guides someone as well. No arrows this time, it just blinks the hall lights in a pattern.
Huh. Nice.
I'm gonna get around to it after I finish TNG rewatch.
And it wasn't arrows on TNg either, same the blinking lights
early 90s
Aliasing has been available in UNIX since the C Shell in 1978.
Obviously they have to keep the tablets in airplane mode or it might screw up the navigation system causing the Enterprise to crash into a star.
"the same procedure as last year, miss sophie?"
-"the same procedure as every year, james!"
I mean, yeah. It's just like selecting from a menu. And it's disambiguating for the parser, which after using gpts is helpful. I mean he could have bound tegh to any thing I guess, so maybe it just makes the most sense to his logical mind
This should so have been a plot point in an actual episode... saying "hot Earl grey tea" sends an encrypted distress signal on all federation frequencies
The Enterprise uses the same drinks machine as the Heart of Gold, I see
I just assumed that he's in the habit of doing it this way after the time he said "Hot Earl..." and suddenly there was a ripped British nobleman sitting on his replicator.
So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek... Can someone please explain?
Bald guy (captain Picard) always orders his tea in a way that kind of sounds odd given how voice interfaces actually turned out. (Tea, Earl grey, hot)
Another character orders tea how we would do so now, and we learn that he orders it that way because otherwise the ship explodes.
But why would ordering it the other way make the ship explode?
Your confusion is justified because using the explanations given, it's not a good joke.
There was an earlier similar joke posted that made much more sense. In a different episode of Star Trek, Beverly tells the computer to define hot as 1.9million Kelvin. This was shown in a panel of the earlier joke. So the Picard Earl Gray Hot joke becomes when Beverly asks for Hot Tea, the computer generates 1.9M Kelvin temperature tea causing the Enterprise to explode.
Unless the joke is you already have to know that whenever Beverly says "hot", the Enterprise explodes. In which case it is a very good subtle joke.
Having seen the the first 639 episodes of Star Trek, I also don't get it.
I'm imagining that the other way is the ship's secret self destruct command.
It's explained in a technical manual.
Be very precise with the replicator.
Captain Picard always orders tea from the computer this way (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.) The meme makes fun of why he might do that by imagining that saying it a more "natural" way is some kind of self-destruct cue.
I've seen all of them, and I'd also like an explanation.
Turns out the replicator is based on Stable Diffusion.
How about just "tea" and the computer figures out the rest
Yup, just tell it that whenever he asks for tea, he wants hot Earl Grey. Maybe he liked saying the whole thing every time.
Like a vocal alias
I could see saving presets, but having the computer assume would be like when you search for something online and it returns a bunch of results that are ALMOST what you want.
Maybe if you just say "Tea" the most common result is a T-shirt or a T pipe. It feels a lot like adding "buy" to a search to clarify you want to purchase something instead of researching it.
Having the computer intuitively know what you want when you request something would require a perfect understanding of your mind and how it operates. Now do that for every single person who may use the device. Yikes!
I think it would just replicate the whole plant.
I've been perusing the technical schematics of the Enterprise and I noticed something odd.
There's no bathrooms.
When you think about it, the replicators need some kind of material to make food out of.
Put it together...
The tea earl grey is POOPIES!!!!
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