Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x04 - "Moist Vessel"

[TimeIsAPredator]

To this day TOS fans make fun of the way Shatner pronounced a word or two...though I'm drawing a blank as to what they were off the top of my head. Anyone? (One of them is right on the tip of my brain.)

ETA: One of them is "sabotage," though I don't hear it myself.

The less we hear of "Sabotage" in Star Trek the better

 

[Sarcastic Vulcan Salute]

Really? Huh... Yeah, I probably wouldn't have batted an eye about it either until last week. After all these decades and just thinking about it now... Who does say "sens-oars" in the real world, anyway?

It turns out both "sense-urs" (how I probably would naturally say it if I weren't self-conscious about it) and "sense-oars" are correct.

The pronunciation given here as the exemplar is "sense-oar."

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sensor?s=t

 

[NCC-73515]

Just like gigawatts and jigowatts are both fine, IIRC XD

 

[cooleddie74]

Spock in TMP says "sense-oars" at least once, doesn't he? It's not as if even the smartest officer on the Enterprise gets away with just one pronounciation and this is in 1979, nearly fifteen years after the character was first created.

 

[fireproof78]

Reminds me of a comic I read by Charles Schultz.

Teenage son to his dad: "Dad, my girlfriend says A-MEN and I say AH-MEN. Do you think we'll find true happiness together?"

 

[Michael]

Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto, sen-sors, sens-oars – let's call the whole thing off.

 

[nicholasm]

Perhaps I'm reaching, but does anyone else see a connection between Gary Mitchel and O'Connor?
Since it's established that humans possess varying levels of ESP, could O'Connor's ascension meditation have been a sort of ESP training with a more spiritual name?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Maybe AMORC survived into the 24th century.

 

[Noname Given]

Perhaps I'm reaching, but does anyone else see a connection between Gary Mitchel and O'Connor?
Since it's established that humans possess varying levels of ESP, could O'Connor's ascension meditation have been a sort of ESP training with a more spiritual name?

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

 

[KennyB]

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

Why NOT a Cosmic Koala!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hythlodeus]

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

because Koalas have chlamydia and are still chill as fuck

 

[Turtletrekker]

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

Because it knows dark secrets.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

Because it's true.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to Discworld, only changing the giant turtle the world rests on to a koala.

Giant turtle? I thought it was a giant brogmoid.

At any rate, I rather enjoyed it. And I definitely enjoy the fact that this is not being set up as another "five-year miniseries." If I want to watch an extended story arc, I'll watch B5; JMS demonstrated complete mastery of that format.

 

[fireproof78]

I just wanna know: Why a "Cosmic Koala"?

Let's see...

*reads credits*

Ah, funded by the Australia Tourism Board.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

To coin a phrase, "I hate Qantas."

 

[tomalak301]

The Ascending scene might be one of the strangest things Star Trek has ever done. I don't know the significance of the cosmic Koala, but I like it. Also, the Sense-ors gag is something I laughed at again. This is the first great episode of the series.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Q prays to the Great Bird of the Galaxy. The Great Bird of the Galaxy prays to the Cosmic Koala.