The Idiotic Questions Thread

[Sisu]

We seem to be currently inundated with the most idiotic questions - some in jest, some in apparent seriousness. So how about a thread for the purely idiotic? Here's mine:

Is Venus populated? I ask this because in A Naked Now, Data repeats a limerick from someone in the Shuttlebay. "There was a young lady from Venus / Whose body was shaped like a - ".

Then Picard interrupts him, and Worf says from Conn, "I don't understand their humor either." But note that Worf doesn't contradict Data in the assumption of their being people living on Venus.

Thoughts?

 

[USS Excelsior]

In DS9 O'Brien once made reference to Venus terraforming platforms, so maybe they were in the process of making Venus liveable at the time so no one was yet living there.

 

[Sisu]

So the Venus woman with the strange shaped body was a terraformer?

 

[Sisu]

ok, next bleedingly stupid question: Does every officer need to take a Shakespeare Appreciation Class at the Academy?

Kirk, Picard, Data.... the evidence is there people!

 

[zenophite]

Sisu said:
ok, next bleedingly stupid question: Does every officer need to take a Shakespeare Appreciation Class at the Academy?

Kirk, Picard, Data.... the evidence is there people!

Don't even get me started on Shakespeare.....

 

[Finn]

Does the sensors read the people's minds to figure if they are going to go through the door or not.

 

[KDoug]

Sisu said:
ok, next bleedingly stupid question: Does every officer need to take a Shakespeare Appreciation Class at the Academy?

Sure, what's wrong with that?

 

[USS Excelsior]

When you tap your communicator how does it know who to patch you through to without asking it first...

 

[Sisu]

In Measure of a Man, Philippa Louvois says to Picard, "[You want to] Bust a chair across my teeth..."

In the alternate future as seen in All Good Things, Picard and Beverly have been married and divorced.

Is this because Picard bashes women?

 

[zenophite]

KDoug said:

Sisu said:
ok, next bleedingly stupid question: Does every officer need to take a Shakespeare Appreciation Class at the Academy?

Sure, what's wrong with that?

Only that "appreciating Shakespeare" has become one of those pretentious things people claim so that they come across as being cultured and refined.

 

[zenophite]

USS Excelsior said:
When you tap your communicator how does it know who to patch you through to without asking it first...

that's because the communicator can tell which digit you tapped it with - for humans you can preset up to 20 speed dial settings.

 

[zenophite]

Finn said:
Does the sensors read the people's minds to figure if they are going to go through the door or not.

nah, it just randomly decides to open itself and then sends a subspace hypnotic signal to compel you to go through.

 

[Sisu]

You are good zeno!

 

[zenophite]

i've got all the idiotic answers to idiotic treknology questions right here!

 

[MrPointy]

Sisu said:
In Measure of a Man, Philippa Louvois says to Picard, "[You want to] Bust a chair across my teeth..."

In the alternate future as seen in All Good Things, Picard and Beverly have been married and divorced.

Is this because Picard bashes women?

Yes.

I have a question, when Data roleplays Sherlock Holmes, does he develop emotions?

 

[xoEJox]

USS Excelsior said:
When you tap your communicator how does it know who to patch you through to without asking it first...

In a similar vein, how does the ship computer know when to automatically patch a comm through to the person who's name is said?

As in, (channel opens) "Mr.Spock, please report to my ready room.".

Versus: "Hey, I heard you went to bed with Spock last night."
"Yeah - oh my Lord, would you believe that Spock (channel opens)[adult content]!"

 

[Peacemaker]

Exactly how many clones of Majel Barrett does the Federation possess?

 

[indranee]

zenophite said:

KDoug said:

Sisu said:
ok, next bleedingly stupid question: Does every officer need to take a Shakespeare Appreciation Class at the Academy?

Sure, what's wrong with that?

Only that "appreciating Shakespeare" has become one of those pretentious things people claim so that they come across as being cultured and refined.

yeah, and it's funny because "Shakespeare" -- whoever he/they were -- was/were as ribald as they come.

 

[indranee]

my idiotic question: from TNG onwards, when you receive a communique through your communicator patch, does the person you are standing with hear it as well? or does it just get patched through to your own ear? do you get privacy for the message you receive other than just walking away from the group/person you're with?

 

[zenophite]

I have a question, when Data roleplays Sherlock Holmes, does he develop emotions?

since sherlock is fictional he never had any emotions so the answer would be no.

peacemaker said:
Exactly how many clones of Majel Barrett does the Federation possess?

exactly one for each ship in starfleet so she can be the ship's computer voice.

indranee said:
my idiotic question: from TNG onwards, when you receive a communique through your communicator patch, does the person you are standing with hear it as well? or does it just get patched through to your own ear? do you get privacy for the message you receive other than just walking away from the group/person you're with?

everyone around the recipient actually hears everything it's just that people in the 24th century have developed politeness to such perfection that they pretend not to hear anything that they shouldn't nor will they hold what they hear against anyone.


geez, where are the hard idiotic questions?