Transcription: A side by side picture of Star Trek Strange New Worlds character Hemmer and The Next Generation character Geordi La Forge.
Clearly you haven’t spent enough time around engineers. There’s a reason the laser warning sign says " do not use remaining eye to look at laser "
Reminds me when Data and Geordi was testing that phaser right next to the damn Warp Core.
Forget the episode but it’s the one Romulans mind controlled Geordi.
It’s crazy that the entire engineering section on Starfleet ships is just right next to the warp core, with absolutely zero structural separation.
The number of times ships had to eject their warp core, or had the warp core go critical, or had other warp core related accidents, you’d think Starfleet would have learned not to exclusively rely on emergency force fields and that they would have simply built two separate sections for engineering and for the warp core.
But no, even after all those experiences, they instead even ditched the isolation doors when they designed the Intrepid class, and basically wrapped the engineering section around the open warp core.
Cause what could possibly go wrong with that approach, eh?
How else are you going to plug two more warp cores into it?
I feel like they do that all the time throughout the TNG era, owing to the fact that they didn’t have a “science lab” set in addition to the warp core set which at any rate looked cool and they wanted to use it whenever they could.
Sets are expensive.
But yes never ever test a phaser next to the Warp Core, kids. That’s a violation of the OSHA Directive.
I mean Hemmer’s species (the Aenar) are naturally blind and see through telepathy, all of them. So that really doesn’t include him.
Hemmer isn’t really “blind” though, he just sees in a different way than humans do
Geordi isn’t really “blind” though, he just sees in a different way than other humans do
Not directly related, but my favorite exchange about human eyesight…
(Lt. Commander Data) “Sir, Lieutenant La Forge’s eyes are far superior to human biological eyes, true?”
(Capt. Picard) “M-hm.”
(Lt. Commander Data) “Then why are not all human officers required to have their eyes replaced with cybernetic implants?”
(Lt. Commander Data) “I see. It is precisely because I am not human.”
Tbh I agree with Data. It’s absurd that they don’t go full AdMech and replace all their fleshy bits with machine bits. Maybe I just crave the strength and certainty of steel more than the average human.
Geordi started as the blind navigator, for irony. They moved him to engineering in season 2 when they decided the did need a chief engineer as a regular character, and Wesley could serve as helmsman.
Geordi started as the blind navigator, for irony
To be fair, a space ship is probably strictly on IFR all the time. Can’t imagine the Enterprise doing a lot of visual approaches.
Also IIRC canonically Geordi’s implant gives him better vision than natural eyes.
I don’t know if Geordi would describe vision with his VISOR as “better”, just that it allows him to see more of the E.M. spectrum. The few times he gets to see with natural eyes (when Riker’s Q powers restored his eyes, and when the magic immortality planet “healed” him) he describes seeing beauty that he normally isn’t capable of experiencing. “Better” is always subjective
Also don’t forget like he said it was like seeing everything all at once, it’s just a bunch of noise and you have to learn to pick out what you want to see. Like when you’re out of concert and everybody is loud around you and you want to listen to your friend, you have to learn how to do that, I’m not sure I’d classify that as better
It’s the same amount of Vulcan science officers! (Maybe even 2½, if you count Burnham’s upbringing)
‘Hi we’re Starfleet, and we recruit our captains from among the best and the brightest on 150 member worlds, spread over 8,000 light years! But the vast majority of the time, when it’s not Jean-Luc Picard, we just get them from this one particular country that accounts for about 4% of the population of Earth. Weird, huh?’
Yeah, well have you looked at the starting salary? And the mortality rate of enlisted… all the smart species know to stay away.
Starfleet is a uniquely human thing. I wonder if the other worlds think we’re weird for wanting to explore the universe.
Wait, are you counting T’Pol and Spock? What about Tuvok? He was a science officer on the Excelsior.
Well he should count for half like Michael. :D
I see after your edit that you posted a pic of Enterprise B. I was talking about when he made tea for Sulu on Excelsior.
I was talking about the lack of a Discovery engineer on another post. Why not make you 15 cents richer and bring in a blind engineer there too?
Paul Stamets was the engineer on Discovery… That dude was pivotal to the story in a lot of ways. Not sure how you missed him 😲
Nope. He isn’t. LtCmdr Paul Stamets isn’t an Engineer and he never has been. He’s a Science Officer. He works in Engineering Test Bay Alpha but he isn’t an Engineer himself. Jett Reno is the highest ranking Engineering Officer we ever see on Discovery.
In Season 2, Reno goes into Stamets lab and says “The Chief sent me here” so we know there’s a Chief Engineer and it isn’t Stamets.
That link doesn’t have any information about Stamets after Season 1. I think they’re using ‘chief engineer’ to mean the ‘main engineer we see’ but that’s not even accurate. Then again, Memory Alpha calls the Chief Medical Officer the ‘head nurse’ so fuck knows what’s going on.
He was just a mycology engineer, not the chief engineer. I honestly can’t remember if we ever see main engineering on Discovery. They mostly work in the Spore Drive engine room. But that was Discovery’s schtick, that it wasn’t the “main” crew that were the stars originally.
But that link literally says he’s the chief engineer. I’ve never actually watched discovery though.
