So … why does the engineer behind me have a banana hairclip over his eyes?
Oh crap, i have an “um actually” for that too…
Dr Pulaski offered to clone him some new eyes, but they wouldn’t have the details or range that the visor does. As a Chief Engineer, I’d keep the extra visual spectrum, dude can see heat!
One of my favorite scenes from First Contact is when Barclay brings him a copper coil to look over and he literally eyeballs it going “yeah this’ll do” because his eyes can see the micro fractures and imperfections in the material, something even Data can’t do. I’d be pissed if someone told me they were taking that away from me!
True, but couldn’t they make a visor that could do that for normally functioning eyes? Like, he could wear it as needed and see the world like normal too?
They address this at some point. Something about him not having eye nerves made direct access to his brain via the same neural pathways possible+ necessary. I believe the visor turns the entire EM spectrum directly into neural signals that his brain interprets as sight.
You would have to lose some sort of color if you use regular retinas to see a larger spectrum. You’d need new retinas with more cones to get new colors. Fun part is, you could have those colors all be translated into visual light if you do have more cones. More cones let you differentiate color better and thus gives you more discernable colors. Tetrachomats can interpret a broader spectrum that way.
I’d imagine it’s sort of like how a lot of people prefer to wear glasses even if they’re a good candidate for laser eye surgery. Personally I like how my glasses protect my eyes from debris and radiation, and I like wearing them.
When i looked into laser eye surgery, they told me it could make my near vision worse… Near sightedness got me into books, so losing that would be like losing a limb!
Um AcTuAlY, they drink it on starships so they can “shake off” the effects
I’m a blast at parties…
This actually makes a lot of sense. Don’t want the first place everyone runs in a red alert to be sick bay for some Sober Ups
Mate a party with conversations like that would fucking go off, wouldn’t even need synthehol.
Would you rather have to replace a liver or consume something that won’t force you to get a new liver?
How delicious is option B?
Synthehol is less fun buzz-wise, shorter acting and tastes off. People ruin their livers now, imagine what they’d do without consequences.
I can tell you what I’d do without consequences.
I’d like to live forever. If I could live longer and keep being an idiot, I’d keep drinking and the only thing I’d change is that I would be back on heroin.
About a decade off of it and I had a dream last night that I woke up to a penny stock I bought 5,000 of being worth 150 bucks. My first thought was, “HOLY SHIT, I HAVE NEARLY A MILLION! I could use heroin again and it wouldn’t hurt anyone but me!”
Isn’t that sad though?
Oh well.
New liver pweeeaaaaase
I’d rather keep my delicious bourbon and let them clone me as many livers as I need.
Which bourbon?
Willette or Basil Hayden for me. Willette is the one in what looks like a genie bottle.
Edit: if you’ve never tried one, make yourself a Bourbon maple sour. They’re delicious.
If god had intended good whisk(e)y to be mixed, it would come bottled that way.
I like Old Granddad Bottled in Bond. That said, there is a small distillery - Far North - not too far from me that is a true farm to bottle brand. They own the farm, the distillery, and they make the whisky. Their rye, Roknar, is the best I’ve ever had.
I generally agree, but I do love me a good Old Fashioned.
As long as it’s an Old Fashioned, I’ll allow it… ;) (OGD BiB makes the best ones).
I regret every drink that is killing me liver, but I would do it all again if I had the chance…
Grandma always said “if you’re going to drink, drink. Don’t mess around!”
Grandma, just like Scotty, always knew best…
With all the medical advances, you’d think there would be a significant number of really old people. Yes Picard wanted to grow old naturally. But I would think many would choose to look 25 forever.
McCoy made it to like 125 years old. You just don’t typically see geriatrics on starships.
Yes but he looked 125 and died at 125. I’m saying with the medical tech they’ve shown, many Federation Citizens would look 25 years old no matter how old and live virtually forever.
I know it’s sad.
Na it’s not really sad.
What is it?
It is
…
It is
It is Blue
It’s not supergreeen, that’s for sure.
Bevaleh
Scotty’s going to give it all it’s got.
It’s the rowdiness.
