TNG Season 1: "We have a Chief Engineer?"
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They ran through at least 3 of them, the position was probably seen as cursed by the time La Forge got it.
Yeah, it’s that guy. I mean, it’s her. Actually it’s that dude over there…
Geordi: but the book says..
Scotty: forget it Laddie, I wrote the bloody thing.
Literally the Dyson Sphere episode haha
That was kinda the cool thing about Geordi ... he kinda epitomised the competence porn vibe for me ... turned the miracle worker thing into a "professional that's just the job that I'm rather qualified and prepared for and lucky to be doing something I like" thing.
There's a lot of competence porn in TNG
Trip can't read anyway.
Trip: ~~There's a book~~ What's a book?
My favorite character in ENT. But holy shit do they make him seem like a complete moron for the first three seasons.
Before Miles is kidnapped by the Cardasians, his wife is mad at him because he brought a stack of engineering books to read on their vacation.
But it doesn't mention if they were pirated or not
Im pretty sure Trip was there before the book was written
There is a scene in the fourth season when Tucker is the chief engineer of the Colombia and he is calling for tolerances in the dilithium crystals to be tighter than spec. When an junior engineer challenges him by saying the spec says a higher number, he pushes back saying that he's actually been running the warp engine and he knows better.
I've been in situations like that at work. I always ask what the senior worker's reason for doing things different is, because then I've benefitted from their experience too
The bottom three are all in contention for my favorite, but I absolutely love Tig in anything she’s in.
Have to admit I'm more like Trip than any of the others.
Where Hemmer?
Somewhere in the bottom of a snowy canyon I reckon
Too soon... 😭😭😭
Surely there's a Starfleet engineer who simply doesn't need the book.