The "The Weather Changes More Often than the Thread Title" Complaint Thread

kyoto kid

TJohn said:

On Star Trek and transporters:

I seem to recall an episode with a transporter failure that was described by a character as something like, "What was transported didn't live very long."

Another memory I have is a Next Generation episode where they found Scotty stored in a transporter buffer and successfully removed by Geordie who was a big fan. Until Scotty became painfully aware he was a man out of his own time, and obsolete as a engineer.

And one in of the most recent series, the ships Dr. has his daughter stored in the buffer in the transporter in sickbay until he can find a cure for her fatal illness.

 

,,.the "didn't live long" scene was from the first theatrical film Star Trek - the motion Picture. Love Robert Wise as a director (he also directed the original The  Day the Earth Stood Still) but those jumpsuit uniforms reminded me of children's "onsies".  The best uniforms were the ones in The Wrath of Khan and subsequent films with the TOS crew.

.The Scotty episode was titled "Relics"

Richard Haseltine

It's been a long time since I watched any Star Trek TOS, but surely there were severeal episodes in which shuttles were seen on the ground if not in flight?

LeatherGryphon

Yes, there were a few.  The old, plywood, flying shoebox shuttles.  A particularly noteable episode was, I think, "The Gallelio II" where Spock and a few others were stranded on a planet of giants who threw boulders down on the grounded shuttle (sounds like a Lost In Space Episode).  The shuttle was geniously fixed and able to take off, but forced to use excess fuel and unable to attain orbit.  The radio was inoperative.  Everybody thought they were going to have to use up the rest of the fuel to land safely, but without fuel and radio, unable to contact the Enterprise and they'e all die by starvation or giants, but at the last moment Spock took a gamble (*shock*) and while still in sub-orbit, exhausted all the remaining fuel reasoning that the massive flare of energy would be noted by the Enterprise and they'd be found.  It was.  They were.  And they were rescued.  End of story.  Wheee...

kyoto kid

..,however, use of shuttles was no where as frequent for "planet side" episodes as the transporter was.

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I remember that Lost in Space episode where a giant Cyclops was throwing big rocks at the Space Family Robinson who were in the Chariot.rover.

The name of that Star Trek episode with the shuttle was The Galileo 7.

uh oh my geekness is showing again.

Torquinox

The only other TOS episode I remember with shuttles was "The Doomsday Machine." Commodore Decker committed suicide in one in an attempt to stop the machine, Kirk repeats the effort with intent to survive using what's left of the Constitution. In keeping with the local theme of transporter use, the Enterprise is having problems and only manages to beam Kirk out at the last second. Not sayin; there weren't others 

NylonGirl

We need some kind of mashup where the shuttle lands and bunnies come out looking for apples.

Torquinox

That would be funny.

SilverGirl

memcneil70 said:

Life: Yesterday I stripped the bed, washed all the bed linens, sheets, blankets, quilt, and throws. This morning Charlie decided to pig out on his breakfast and after he was groomed, and I had just settled down at my computer, he started the infamous hacking up. He managed to nail a pillow case, four throws, cover sheet and quilt. He knows he totally messed up and has apologized and is now asleep against the rest of the pillows. Simon, who was asleep when all this went down, flashed out of the bedroom and hasn't returned.

So, more laundry today. Joy. 

One positive note, my iPad is finally charging. Thanks to the last iOS 26 update, it messed up the charging completely. Even upgrading to iOS27 which was waiting to go live didn't help. So I went and bought one of the Apple power adapters and a new cord. Had to reboot again but it is now stable and keeping a charge. (Knocks on wood.)

 

Oh gosh, so sorry about the laundry. That's always the way, isn't it?

Glad your iPad is behaving, though! 

SilverGirl

NylonGirl said:

We need some kind of mashup where the shuttle lands and bunnies come out looking for apples.

I would watch the living heck out of that :D 

MKDAWUSS

Maybe not so much a *complaint* exactly, but with assorted AI slop popping up all over the place, I'll now see some nice outfit and either wish it was in my (DAZ) collection - cue that meme up LOL - or I'll find myself digging through the CL to see if there's something in there that's close enough to somewhat imitate the look if I can't recreate it entirely. Is anyone else having that issue as well? See something nice by accident and you know you have DAZ render material? I know it's not exactly exclusive to the AI period - one could have done this looking through clothing sites/stores and fashion mags, but it feels far more prevalent now, at least to me.

And if there's a "get the look" link, it's like... "Yeah I need that in 3D, actually."

There's also the "I have everything *but*..." problem as well, be it pose, outfit, location, etc. - "I have the model, I have the outfit, I have the pose, I just need the right location..." or "I have the model, pose, and location, I just need the right outfit..."

jmucchiello

kyoto kid said:

..,however, use of shuttles was no where as frequent for "planet side" episodes as the transporter was.

Gene Roddenberry invented the transporter for cost savings and for story pacing. In the 1960s, animating a shuttle leaving a larger ship and descending to an alien planetary surface would have been... astronomical. (heh) The transporter special effect was an FX loop filming water swirling in a bucket. Filmed once. Used every episode.

He also didn't want to have to waste minutes of screen time with essentially dead air as the animation of the shuttle played.

And there's a story that Seth MacFarlane purposefully used shuttles in The Orville because it didn't cost him much. And so he didn't have to explain the physics of transporters to anyone.