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[-] anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago

TNG Season 1: "We have a Chief Engineer?"

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago

They ran through at least 3 of them, the position was probably seen as cursed by the time La Forge got it.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s that guy. I mean, it’s her. Actually it’s that dude over there…

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

Geordi: but the book says..

Scotty: forget it Laddie, I wrote the bloody thing.

[-] Captain_Ender@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Literally the Dyson Sphere episode haha

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Eylrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of competence porn in TNG

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Trip can't read anyway.

[-] TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

But it doesn't mention if they were pirated or not

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im pretty sure Trip was there before the book was written

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DroneRights@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The bottom three are all in contention for my favorite, but I absolutely love Tig in anything she’s in.

[-] Lexam@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Have to admit I'm more like Trip than any of the others.

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Captain_Ender@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Somewhere in the bottom of a snowy canyon I reckon

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Too soon... 😭😭😭

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Surely there's a Starfleet engineer who simply doesn't need the book.

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