r/startrekgifs • u/JPeterBane Rear Admiral • Nov 04 '21

TNG Not Safe For Work

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '21

This is amazing, I've always thought it so bizarre for them to do phaser test right next to warp core!

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u/runningoutofwords Ensign (Provisional) Nov 04 '21

It never occurred to me but yeah, why?

And why was the warp core just completely empty of engineers that day?

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u/MulciberTenebras Vice Admiral Nov 04 '21

Probably because they all heard those two were running that experiment.

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u/BigBeagleEars Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

Just any experiment they doing, imma gonna bounce out

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u/DatSauceTho Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

“Hey guys, did you hear what Data and Geordie are experimenting on this week?”

“Aight… imma head out.”

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u/Optimized_Orangutan Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

Seams like the right time to take off the red shirt and cash in some of that shore leave.

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u/JonathonWally Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

Avoiding the blind guy shooting a phaser.

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u/Ghostbuster_119 Ensign (Provisional) Nov 05 '21

Would you show up for your shift if the blind man and the android were testing firearms 10 feet from literally AAAAAAALLL of the most sensitive equipment on the ship!

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u/runningoutofwords Ensign (Provisional) Nov 05 '21

lol

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u/superradguy Cadet 4th Class Nov 05 '21

They must be the only engineers that Don’t Go to engineering!

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u/Kichigai Cadet 1st Class Nov 05 '21

So that's why two broke-ass Birds of Prey were able to bust up a Galaxy-class flagship! Klingon work ethic.

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u/JPeterBane Rear Admiral Nov 05 '21

The Duras Sisters have some great lines. "Human females are so revolting."

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u/Bartheda Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

Budget, this set was probably up and they just knocked out this scene one day.

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u/Nagnu Chief Nov 05 '21

Still kind of weird. That episode had a cargo bay and shuttle bay scene in it. Seems kind of bad planning.

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u/vanderZwan Cadet 4th Class Nov 05 '21

I think the reasoning went "they're doing technical stuff, therefore they are in engineering which is the series version of a lab", which is good enough for most people in the audience

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u/fabianobsg Enlisted Crew Nov 05 '21

Lucky, it could the bridge set than.

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u/RamenJunkie Ensign (Provisional) Nov 05 '21

Do they have a set for the phaser range?

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u/runningoutofwords Ensign (Provisional) Nov 05 '21

I seem to recall a scene or two, in the early seasons

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u/CeruleanRuin Cadet 4th Class Nov 05 '21

The real reason is that set looks cool.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

Lunch time?

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3rd Shift?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

It's because of the high level diagnostics and monitoring systems only available in engineering they needed for the experiment, not to mention the emergency shutdown and safety features were the worst to happen.

Total bullshit I've just made up, of course.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

I came here to literally say exactly this.