The way he says it makes perfect sense to me from a programmer point of view.
First, type of drink Second, subtype Third, whether its hot or cold
Although technically, you wouldn’t have a cold earl grey tea, but still. It makes sense.
But people can ask the replicator for an item any old way and it seems to work fine.
Yeah but did replicators work the same way when Picard was a young lad having his first cup of Earl Grey?
“Hot Earl Grey tea.”
*saucer section rotates 180 and reattaches*
If you order English Breakfast the computer schedules your next transporter “accident.”
Always make sure to conspicuously order Irish breakfast tea when the O’Brien is around to ensure proper transporter safety protocols.
Type/variant/temp
Makes sense to me 🤷♂️
I would think a computer that can make a living person on the holodeck just by telling it to beat Data can handle “tea, Earl Grey, hot” or “Earl Grey tea, hot” or “hot Earl Grey tea.”
Edit: Really, it should just know what Picard means when he says “tea” after he’s done it multiple times.
It’s also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy. Remember how they walk around delivering tablets to people for the mail?
Little details about how technology would actually develop stand out super bad when they get close but just miss how things actually went.
It’s also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy.
Yeah TNG pilot literally has a character go “Oh you’ve never been on one of these Galaxy class ships” to Riker, after which she shows that you can ask directions from the computer. And then helpful arrows start blinking to direct Riker to the holodeck. (I don’t know if those guiding lights are ever seen again in the canon. Might be, I’m too lazy to find out rn.)
Majel Barrett sounded so young, I just watched that episode a couple of days ago.
One episode of Voyager made me giggle a bit. It’s a ship with “bio-neural circuitry”. One cold open, there’s some phenomena they want to look at, so Chakotay tells Seven who then assigns an ensign to take a pad to B’elanna in engineering with the turbolift, and then B’elanna sends a “power requisition” through another person, via a pad, to the theoretical physicist somewhere in the bowels of the ship, who then has a bit of a chat with the person delivering the pad and then enters the changes into his work station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ud8HJgUoQs
I get that with ships that complex, you might have people at different points verifying the commands, so that it’s not just automated, but since they’re all connected, what’s the point of physically walking the pads there?
And that episode aired in 2000.
This should so have been a plot point in an actual episode… saying “hot Earl grey tea” sends an encrypted distress signal on all federation frequencies
The Enterprise uses the same drinks machine as the Heart of Gold, I see
