Picard solar glare

[Lex4]

I couldn't catch what the captain said in this short video clip

http://bit.ly/1yjhwkM

Can someone spell out what he exactly said?
Thank you.

 

[Mojochi]

"Mask out the photosphere"

It's from the season one episode Symbiosis

What do I win? lol

 

[bbjeg]

Just a tip: The episode was posted with the video. A quick Google search would have given you the name of the episode and if you Googled 'TNG Symbiosis script', you could have found out what he said.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

"Mask out the photosphere"

It's from the season one episode Symbiosis

What do I win? lol

Not crazy about the special effects there...

 

[Trekker4747]

It's interesting to me the computer creates the mask and then it has to "track" to block out the photosphere of the star. You'd think the computer could automatically tell where it was and just generate the mask right over it.

 

[Mark 2000]

You wouldn't think a view screen would be bright enough to blind someone without the mask. My LCD has never inured me. Just dim the image.

 

[bbailey861]

It's interesting to me the computer creates the mask and then it has to "track" to block out the photosphere of the star. You'd think the computer could automatically tell where it was and just generate the mask right over it.

This is exactly what you would expect to happen on the enterprise. The transporter can disarm weapons automatically but can't adjust brightness on a viewscreen? It certainly was done just to convey to the viewing audience the brightness but I think it could have been done more intelligently.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

You wouldn't think a view screen would be bright enough to blind someone without the mask. My LCD has never inured me. Just dim the image.

It seems twenty fourth century view screens are so perfect that they emit radiations that could blind you instantly. I guess that goes along with the holodecks that can kill you under the supervision of the main computer. It seems that contrary to ours the engineers of the future give very little thought to security.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

It's interesting to me the computer creates the mask and then it has to "track" to block out the photosphere of the star. You'd think the computer could automatically tell where it was and just generate the mask right over it.

This is exactly what you would expect to happen on the enterprise. The transporter can disarm weapons automatically but can't adjust brightness on a viewscreen? It certainly was done just to convey to the viewing audience the brightness but I think it could have been done more intelligently.

It's on the same level of stupidity as Data that types a key board or looks at a view screen and talks to the computer , instead of linking directly to the computer and getting his information and his instructions to the computer about one million times faster... But what would you expect from people that don't know squat about anything scientific?

 

[Trekker4747]

I don't think the viewscreen was transmitting any radiation, other than visible light, to the bridge crew it's just that sun was bright and that by masking out photosphere they could get a better look at the solar eruptions.

It's on the same level of stupidity as Data that types a key board or looks at a view screen and talks to the computer , instead of linking directly to the computer and getting his information and his instructions to the computer about one million times faster... But what would you expect from people that don't know squat about anything scientific?

The point of Data was to be as "human as possible" if he could link directly to computer wirelessly that'd sort of defeat that notion.

 

[Mark 2000]

It seems twenty fourth century view screens are so perfect that they emit radiations that could blind you instantly. I guess that goes along with the holodecks that can kill you under the supervision of the main computer. It seems that contrary to ours the engineers of the future give very little thought to security.

Dont forget the lack of fuses in the exploding consoles or the centrally located exploding power source who's only fail safe is the first system to go off line. Or that minor damage to the nacelles can destroy the ship. The ship is more dangerous than the space they are traveling through.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

It seems twenty fourth century view screens are so perfect that they emit radiations that could blind you instantly. I guess that goes along with the holodecks that can kill you under the supervision of the main computer. It seems that contrary to ours the engineers of the future give very little thought to security.

Dont forget the lack of fuses in the exploding consoles or the centrally located exploding power source who's only fail safe is the first system to go off line. Or that minor damage to the nacelles can destroy the ship. The ship is more dangerous than the space they are traveling through.

How true! I've always wondered why the bridge being the brain of the ship , so to speak, isn't the most secure and fortified of its areas. It makes about as much sense as people having their brains in their butt-cheeks (literally) and some minor organ in their brain-pan.

 

[Unicron]

It's amazing how much damage plot can do, no matter how good the equipment is.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

I keep forgetting about this thread, clicking into it, and finding out it's NOT about somebody being blinded by the light reflecting off the Captain's Dome.

 

[Amaris]

Guys, guys. This was 1988. If someone could have done that in real time with a real computer on a real viewscreen then, people would have shat themselves for the technology. It's like the LED self destruct countdown timer in "11001001". Sometimes you just have to understand that, technologically speaking, we didn't think we'd advance this far this fast. It's like watching Total Recall, or Timecop, both movies set anywhere between a decade and century into the future, and both imagining futuristic technology which was dated by the late 90s.

So totes cut glare reducing, photosphere tracking viewscreen a break, you guyz!

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Guys, guys. This was 1988. If someone could have done that in real time with a real computer on a real viewscreen then, people would have shat themselves for the technology. It's like the LED self destruct countdown timer in "11001001". Sometimes you just have to understand that, technologically speaking, we didn't think we'd advance this far this fast. It's like watching Total Recall, or Timecop, both movies set anywhere between a decade and century into the future, and both imagining futuristic technology which was dated by the late 90s.

So totes cut glare reducing, photosphere tracking viewscreen a break, you guyz!

Well, Total Recall posits that you can terraform Mars in less than two minutes, I doubt we'll ever top that.