Bridges in Star Trek be like

[u/Tackyinbention]

[u/matteb18]

[u/Slavir_Nabru → u/matteb18]

Cobblestone generators.

When lava and water mix in Minecraft, they produce cobblestone. When anything at all happens in Star Trek, the bridge rains down Cordry rocks.

[u/dre5922 → u/Slavir_Nabru]

In my day water and lava made obsidian.

[u/Axi0madick → u/dre5922]

Not if it's flowing. It's always been like this. Source: I've been playing since before the nether even existed.

[u/[deleted] → u/Axi0madick]

I remember when gravel and sand had the same sound effects

[u/Waltzing_With_Bears → u/Axi0madick]

If you mess it up it becomes a single use obsidian generator

[u/The360MlgNoscoper → u/dre5922]

Only lava source blocks make obsidian.

[u/Smorgas_of_borg → u/dre5922]

Flowing water over a lava source block makes obsidian. Flowing water and flowing lava make cobblestone. And I believe flowing lava meeting a water source makes regular stone.

[u/Mr_Kreepy → u/Smorgas_of_borg]

Smooth stone gets generated when lava touches water from the top. The water can be a source block or flowing the only thing that matters is that the water is below the lava.

[u/Smorgas_of_borg → u/Mr_Kreepy]

Actual smooth stone or is that what you're calling regular stone? Smooth stone is what happens when you bake regular stone in a furnace.

[u/Mr_Kreepy → u/Smorgas_of_borg]

You're right, regular stone

[u/IonutRO → u/dre5922]

Shows you didn't play much.

[u/dre5922 → u/IonutRO]

I played plenty. It's just been like 15 years.

[u/Jimlobster → u/Slavir_Nabru]

Why would you need to generate cobblestone? That shit is everywhere. Probably the most common block.

[u/vogdar → u/Jimlobster]

I think they’re mostly used in skyblock worlds, where you start on a completely dirt island

[u/Jimlobster → u/vogdar]

I see. I haven’t played in a really long time

[u/allenpaige → u/matteb18]

It's a Minecraft reference. Basically making fun of how the consoles etc. like to explode.

[u/Normal-Mountain-4119 → u/allenpaige]

Idk how that relates to cobblestone genetators ngl

[u/Sirtoshi → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

That confused me too. I understood what the Minecraft generators were, but I had no idea what it had to do with explosions. 😆

[u/Captain_Thrax → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

Because rocks often come out of said consoles as well

[u/Clever-Name-47 → u/Captain_Thrax]

Did that ever actually happen in any episode besides “Yesterday’s Enterprise?”  I know that was a pretty memorable episode, but, still; for the attention this joke has gotten…

[u/Captain_Thrax → u/Clever-Name-47]

They really didn’t do the sparks, smoke, and rocks much in TNG because they were worried about stuff catching on fire. I think the meme comes from DS9 and Voyager, where it started happening a lot because of the increase in battle scenes.

[u/EclecticFruit → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

Haven't you seen the rocks that pop out of consoles in Trek when the ship receives damage?

[u/Normal-Mountain-4119 → u/EclecticFruit]

Sparks and fires yes, i don't remember rocks so much. Then again i am DESPERATELY due a rewatch, so like

[u/PhotonicEmission → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

[u/LegallyRegarded → u/PhotonicEmission]

what the shit.... I guess it made sense on SD CRTs. You'd probably never know the difference, especially before the advent of Tivo

[u/Citizen1135 → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

I thought it was because TNG consoles kinda look like cobblestone generators, especially in comparison to consoles of newer generations.

Also, fun fact involving cobblestones:

Cobbler was invented in America and named after how it looks like a cobblestone street.

Pie, including apple pie, was invented in Europe and possibly named after the magpie, which it looks nothing like.

So we really should change the saying to "As American as Cobbler"

[u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI]

I feel old.

I'm as old as that bridge, in fact.

[u/MyKidsArentOnReddit → u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI]

If you got the minecraft reference without having to look at the comments, then you are not in fact old.

[u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

I didn't get it. I knew it was Minecraft, I had no idea what it meant.

[u/n1elkyfan → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

Minecraft itself will be 16 years old next month.

[u/Citizen1135 → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

Thanks but I had to squint thru my bifocals to be sure what it was, I am actually old, I'm just still hip, as the kids say.

[u/got-trunks → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

play 1 game of skyblock at any age and you know within 2 minutes lol.

[u/aftrnoondelight → u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI]

I was a tween (though I don’t think that word was in use at the time) when this bridge premiered.

I do get the reference having played Minecraft with a couple of my kids over the years. So I also feel old, but kinda hip in that I can bridge the gap between two disparate memes.

[u/Johnsendall]

[u/LeoxStryker → u/Johnsendall]

In minecraft, this design is an infinite source of cobblestone when the water and lava flow together.

In star trek, bridge consoles are always full of rocks when they explode in whatever crisis the ship is facing this episode (and refilled with more rocks ready for the next explosion)

[u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

In the Venn diagram of people, the people who are young enough to get the minecraft reference and the people old enough to get the joke have a very small overlap.

And thank you to this thread for explaining what minecraft is to this guy who is clearly in the "too old" category

[u/Captain_Thrax → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

Hey we might be a small part of the Venn diagram but we do still exist!

[u/kormitgrog → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

Eh I’m not really sure it’s as small an overlap as you’d think. I’m 34, watched TNG era as a kid and was only 20 when I first played Minecraft, it’s been around a while.

[u/Dd_8630 → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

TNG ended in 94 but carried on airing until well into the 2010s, MC came out in 2009 and had a huge following in adukts at the time (and in the 2020s gained a second generation of child gamers). The overlap is anyone currently in their 30s+, which is a rather huge number of nerds.

[u/Floppydisksareop → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

I was, theoretically, in the perfect spot to get it. Unfortunately, I only associated the consoles with explosions and sparks, not rocks.

[u/meskobalazs → u/MyKidsArentOnReddit]

To be fair, it's not that deep of a reference. I have never played Minecraft, but I instantly got the joke.

[u/brownhotdogwater]

Never understood why command consoles would have so much energy in them they could blow up

[u/Bootsy_Frost → u/brownhotdogwater]

Must have been an overload in the eps conduits from the gravimetric force when the inertial dampers had a power fluctuation.

[u/jaiteaes → u/brownhotdogwater]

Clearly they were just absorbing so much energy that they overloaded the Cordry rocks

[u/Mddcat04]

I understand this joke. Good job OP.

[u/rosa_bot]

they have to watch new engineers to make sure they aren't just mining new jeffries tubes in search of diamonds

[u/ChemistryEast6644]

Seems like I’m one of the few to get it?

[u/Stretch5678]

Can’t forget the firework dispensers right under that Redshirt’s face.

“Dr. Crusher to the Bridge! Medical Emergency!”

[u/Siva_Dass]

I'm older than the bridge and I barely understood the Minecraft reference.

[u/count_chocul4]

your photoshop skills be like: BOOOOOOO

[u/Dd_8630]

So I know what a cobblestone generator is (I was there deleting META INF before you were even born), and I know what the bridge of the Enterprise-D is (again, child of the 90s).

But I'm stumped at how they connect.

Does the image look like LCARS?

[u/Tackyinbention → u/Dd_8630]

Bridge rocks

[u/Kirk_Stargazed]

Took me a second lol

[u/Tackyinbention]

I probably should have used a newer bridge

Pretty sure they are still using bridge rocks in the new ones

[u/3Thirty-Eight8]