I guess I'll have to actually watch Lower Decks to understand why Shax is always the one trying to eject the core or why typing "lower decks chief engineer" into duckduckgo's image search mostly returns pictures of Shax.
This fallls way outside of ten forward, but the absolute king of polarity reversal in really all of scifi is Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who. Yes it's very old, but you will literally get at least one polarity reversal per story arc. Honestly he's probably the progenitor of all polarity reversals.
IIRC, Jon Pertwee didn't like technobabble, so used "reverse the polarity" as his go-to phrase. Funnily enough, he only says "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" twice! (The Sea Devils & The Five Doctors).
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 120d
When they forget about you:
thessnake03@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 120d
Shax is security. You want Billups.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 120d
You got me. Fixed.
I guess I'll have to actually watch Lower Decks to understand why Shax is always the one trying to eject the core or why typing "lower decks chief engineer" into duckduckgo's image search mostly returns pictures of Shax.
thessnake03@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 120d
Shax just really wants to eject the warp core. Just tactical things is all.
The comics Shax's Best Day during Day of Blood and then Shax's Worst Day during the following Lore War were so good.
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 120d
No O'Brien you fucking up.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social · 13 pts · 120d
Why is op making our chief suffer?
Oh wait I get it
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
I'm suddenly reminded of Chief O'Brien at Work
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social · 3 pts · 119d
At work I’m always reminded reminded of chief Obrien at work. Mostly the crushing suffering
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 119d
he did it one last time, and got nuked in a different universe by trying to be a tyrant.
svdasein@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 120d
This fallls way outside of ten forward, but the absolute king of polarity reversal in really all of scifi is Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who. Yes it's very old, but you will literally get at least one polarity reversal per story arc. Honestly he's probably the progenitor of all polarity reversals.
Australis13@fedia.io · 6 pts · 119d
IIRC, Jon Pertwee didn't like technobabble, so used "reverse the polarity" as his go-to phrase. Funnily enough, he only says "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" twice! (The Sea Devils & The Five Doctors).
svdasein@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
...of the neutron flow yeah. He just plain reversed polarity in general more times than that. He was a professional polarity wrestler :D
Lemming421@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
I’m reversing the polarity, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 120d
To reverse polarity the energy has to pass through a zero state
They're literally just turning shit off and on again
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 120d
Scotty: "You're not supposed to give the secrets away, laddie!"
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 120d
Kirk: How long until you get this fixed, Scotty?
Scotty: About 4 hours sir, but for you I'll get it done in 2.
[Scotty pushes 1 button, issue is fixed, he goes and gets hammered]
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 120d
they're plugging it in backwards
obinice@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 119d
Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
Dr. Flox: “The neutrinos are mutating.”
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d
O'Brien is the fifth of four
thebasementcakes@leminal.space · 6 pts · 120d
"The tachyon field ..." "just fix it"
teft@piefed.social · 4 pts · 120d
Trip took reversing the polarity to new heights.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 119d
he made sure ds9 would not function without him being there, so he is constantly needed and not firable.