Reminds me of this video:
“Star Trek TNG - Will Riker Destroys the Enterprise-D”
Now, if he took off his pants…that’d be a different story.
i’m sure if we have palm rejection worked out in tablets, ass cheek rejection is absolutely future table-screen tech
I… I really hate to be that guy, but… “phasers”.
Thank you. If it weren’t for you I’d be “that guy”.
Ahem.
Among the wider populace it’d be too pedantic, but this is a Star Trek community; put some respec on his name.
Unrelated anecdote:
Years ago I had a cheap Blackberry lookalike phone. It had a button lock feature to prevent butt dialing, but some bright spark decided that the lock wouldn’t apply to the ‘9’ and ‘1’ keys, presumably so that a user could dial 9-1-1 even if too panicked to unlock the keypad. Which just meant that it was really easy to butt dial 9-1-1…
Had something similar, except that the code on the phone to dial 911 with the keys locked was #08. Keys were so sensitive I couldn’t keep my phone in my pocket, had to live in my bag or it’d be dialling emergency services.
They use their asses for identification.
Arguing over such details is pretty silly when you consider that if we have spaceships in the 24th century they’ll probably be completely autonomous, and people will simply ride around in them without even knowing how they work. We just like to make up imperfect but fun stories where the future is the present + gadgets. George Jetson endures rush-hour traffic jams in his space car.
This is one of the things that annoyed me about the latest Dune movies: all the switches in the cockpits of the ornithopters. Nothing else in that universe seems to require switches, but the ornithopters are set up like 1980s helicopters for some reason.
That works until the first species joins Star Fleet that types with their butts.
There was a TNG episode that established that controls would only respond to authorized inputs, presumably from whatever limbs, organs, or phalanges any crewmember might typically use for such purposes.
They meet an alien species who controls all their electronics and touch sensitive systems using a single long appendage attached to their groin.
The Na’avi?
Nah, other way around, that’s a long groin attached to their appendage (braid).
There’s the episode in VOY where Tuvok loses his memories and when he’s touring his station on the bridge accidentally activates a photon torpedo.
Somebody on the security team got demoted that day
Also ensign Kim, but that’s because Janeway saw him first.
The Asstralians: Everything about them is upside down.
My bum is on the console, my bum is on the console. Look at me my bum is on the console.
I hope the screen was locked
looks down at the screen
“YOU HAVE ENTERED YOUR PASSWORD INCORRECTLY TOO MANY TIMES. CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT.”
This incident will be reported
ohhhh please don’t report me sudo I’ll do ANYTHING
Insufficient data. Please provide additional samples of each scenario.
Were just going to ignore that Bryce Dallas Howard is just there, apparently immortal or something?
Actually, that’s Patricia Tallman. I went to highschool with her son.
It was a joke dude. Dear lord
One would hope that stupid fashion of touch screens on dangerous vehicles stops before the 24th century…
It’s not a fashion choice. It’s a versatility choice.
Suffice to say touchscreens give better feedback than today, as I’ve seen characters on Star Trek use those things blinded sometimes.
They’re also much smarter than our ones. One episode had a kid worried about doing exactly the thing shown in the meme, where he’d fallen, caught himself on the control panel, and thought everyone had died as a result of him fat-fingering buttons.
He was reassured by Riker telling him it’s impossible, because computer consoles can detect that, and have authorisation codes, so won’t trigger the buttons otherwise.
Plus, there’s aliens who have no eyes, and presumably cannot see in Starfleet. It would be unfair to them if they can’t use anything except by voice controls.
Prodigy is a kids show but it still counts as canon, and there are a couple scenes of ass phasering going on.
“Number one, asspedoes, FULL SPREAD”
I think you meant Number 2
O’Brien, transport all of our ship’s sewage to their bridge.
Noooo! Then what will they eat for the rest of the week!? 😯🤢🤮🤪
Beavis: “Number One, I order you to take a number two.”
“Who do you work for, Number 2!?”
Ass pedos? Geez
Sir! firing sequence has been interrupted by a CORN (Cessium Ordinance Radiating Nucleons) … we’re going to have to increase power to push this one out!!!
Naw. Actually he died in that one so… okay so don’t hate me, but he must be in a time loop scenario here!
