I can understand M'Benga just fine. But then I've been listening to accents in popular media and studying and imitating voices since I was a kid so unless his voice is too muffled I can get what he's saying.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x06 - "Lost in Translation"
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I'm not invested as many seem to be, but as a creative type it fills me with glee when the writers find ways to circumvent, insert or add to what we already know, to make us think "oh my god, that's why such and such happened, that's why he's like that, that's where she's headed, that's how they got there!" It's fun. But if they have to ignore something or fudge it to make it more interesting or dramatic (the Gorn), I'm okay with that, because ultimately I just want a good story that leaves me wanting more. I feel like I'm getting that.
Holographic performers? Doesn't work for the bartender, of course, but for the band, it totally could.
Ditto, never seen an episode of LD. I'm just going to take this one in stride, but for me there cannot be any fanboy moments.
THIS.
TOS has always been separate for me. It doesn't quite click with TMP so treating it as its own thing has been my way for a while.
Yes and no. Firing the weapons on a starship is merely pushing a button. At the speeds and distances involved in stellar combat at relativistic or even warp speeds, the entirety of the rest of the process would have to be computer / AI driven, or the weapons would never hit anything.
What? Shooting in space is just like naval combat.
What? Shooting in space is just like naval combat.
Heh. Did you know that back in the heyday of the battleship, those big naval rifles could throw shells so far that they had to factor in the curvature of the Earth when calculating their firing solutions?
Jazz band on the ship could just be crew members who formed a band. (God knows I've worked in plenty of places where that happens over and over.) There are probably other types of music performed by crew members as well because out in space it can get boring between episodes of high adventure. We've seen it in TOS and I'm gonna go with the idea that current showrunners took those scenes and expanded on them. The bartender would be part of the galley crew, right? (I don't know, honestly, how food service works on a naval vessel.)
Well, USN ships are dry, so the problem of bartenders doesn't come up. Officially.
I'm not sure how they do it on Royal Navy ships, but alcohol is still served aboard them in moderated daily amounts. Probably handled by the RN equivalent of the Supply Department and their mess specialists.
I love this scene.
If we assume this lounge is a thing for crew downtime and alcohol is served (with detox pills on the side) then the bartender(s) would logically be part of food service crew though. And I assume there's a galley chief and such even though most crew gets their food from the food synthesizers with occasional special treats like real cookies. Captain Pike pursues his hobby outside the purview of the galley chief. Maybe a part of galley crew are specifically trained to program the food selections and maintain food synthesizers?Well, USN ships are dry, so the problem of bartenders doesn't come up. Officially.
lol, right!
My hearing is fine, but I’m not a native English speaker. This is usually not an issue, though, haven’t needed subtitles consistently in some 15 years and M’Benga is the only character I consistently need to turn them on for.
I like the idea that by the 23rd Century there is a pill you can pop to counter the effects of alcohol, enabling the crew to relax with a few cocktails and not worry about becoming incapacitated. Obviates the need for synthehol as well, although to me synthehol was what you get from a replicator when the 'real thing' isn't available, because Crewman Lush over there drank all the real scotch three months into the five-year mission.
I headcanoned that they are crewmembers who formed a band and perform for the crew.
TNG had crewmembers perform all the time.
All the time...
So it's certainly believable that the band are members of the crew who are off duty.
All the time...
So it's certainly believable that the band are members of the crew who are off duty.
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Me too. There's probably folk singers with guitars open mic nights, Andorian pop karaoke nights, and lounge singer Phil from the gravimetrics analysis lab on piano every Tuesday from 6 to 9.
You'll never tell me Trip didn't occasionally play harmonica for his shipmates in the NX-01 mess hall.
Willingly or not, they sat and listened to him. #KeepYerShirtsOn
Willingly or not, they sat and listened to him. #KeepYerShirtsOn
