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TNG "The Outrageous Okona" on H&I.

It was simply outrageous.

Nice to see Teri Hatcher in a Star Trek uniform. But seeing her be so easily seduced by Okona -- it was just outrageous. And Joe Piscopo's comedy act -- that was outrageously bad.
 
Lower Decks: Temporal Edict. Pretty good.


DS9: The Jem Hadar. The episode that basically changed everything.
 
Encounter at Farpoint (TNG)

I've watched this episode many times, but I had never noticed that, in an attempt to hide their actions from Q, Picard ordered all transmissions (including intercom) deactivated, and messages were going to be sent by "print out". Not only is this really inefficient on a ship with over 1000 people, I've never seen a printer on the ship (and he specifically says printout). Now I'm imagining that the ship has hundreds of 80s style dot matrix printers that we just never see in case the captain wants to send messages by printout :)
 
VOY “Scorpion 1&2”. Great, tense build up with a knockout teaser in first ep, one of the biggest WTFs of the entire franchise. On the downside, undoubtedly the beginning of the Borg being defanged. Also I find Janeway incredibly irritating.
 
Encounter at Farpoint (TNG)

I've watched this episode many times, but I had never noticed that, in an attempt to hide their actions from Q, Picard ordered all transmissions (including intercom) deactivated, and messages were going to be sent by "print out". Not only is this really inefficient on a ship with over 1000 people, I've never seen a printer on the ship (and he specifically says printout). Now I'm imagining that the ship has hundreds of 80s style dot matrix printers that we just never see in case the captain wants to send messages by printout :)
As a old school programmer, I can tell you that displaying text on a console is often referred to as "print to screen." I took it as no wireless comms, i.e, messages would require input at a sender's "keyboard" to be displayed in printout form on the destination's screen.

Also, laser printing is just about as old as dot-matrix.
 
As a old school programmer, I can tell you that displaying text on a console is often referred to as "print to screen." I took it as no wireless comms, i.e, messages would require input at a sender's "keyboard" to be displayed in printout form on the destination's screen.

Also, laser printing is just about as old as dot-matrix.

That makes more sense, but I wonder how many people, then or now, would take the term "print out" to mean anything but a printed out piece of paper? Regardless it wasn't a huge deal, it was just kind of amusing to me.
 
Encounter at Farpoint (TNG)

I've watched this episode many times, but I had never noticed that, in an attempt to hide their actions from Q, Picard ordered all transmissions (including intercom) deactivated, and messages were going to be sent by "print out". Not only is this really inefficient on a ship with over 1000 people, I've never seen a printer on the ship (and he specifically says printout). Now I'm imagining that the ship has hundreds of 80s style dot matrix printers that we just never see in case the captain wants to send messages by printout :)
Yet another carryover from The Cage.
 
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