“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.
So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek… Can someone please explain?
Having seen the the first 639 episodes of Star Trek, I also don’t get it.
Bald guy (captain Picard) always orders his tea in a way that kind of sounds odd given how voice interfaces actually turned out. (Tea, Earl grey, hot)
Another character orders tea how we would do so now, and we learn that he orders it that way because otherwise the ship explodes.
Your confusion is justified because using the explanations given, it’s not a good joke.
There was an earlier similar joke posted that made much more sense. In a different episode of Star Trek, Beverly tells the computer to define hot as 1.9million Kelvin. This was shown in a panel of the earlier joke. So the Picard Earl Gray Hot joke becomes when Beverly asks for Hot Tea, the computer generates 1.9M Kelvin temperature tea causing the Enterprise to explode.
Unless the joke is you already have to know that whenever Beverly says “hot”, the Enterprise explodes. In which case it is a very good subtle joke.
The Enterprise uses the same drinks machine as the Heart of Gold, I see
I just assumed that he’s in the habit of doing it this way after the time he said “Hot Earl…” and suddenly there was a ripped British nobleman sitting on his replicator.
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.
