• mercano@lemmy.world
    10·
    14 days ago

    “It’s not working.”

    “…We’re both all reversing the polarity.”

    “Yes, I know that.”

    “There’s two four of us. I’m reversing it, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!”

    • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 days ago

      Series pitch: t’lyn (in her absolute unhinged way) figures out how to make the shield polarity orthogonal to previous states, rendering them completely impervious to known powers, who, threatened by this, hatch a plot to infiltrate the federation and steal the technology by becoming member states. The federation’s rootbeer-like insidiousness eventually makes them give up their plot, but they still get the tech anyway because cooperation

      Mostly I want to hear starfleet engineers start saying that they’re orthogonalizing the polarity, because I find that I hilariously ridiculous concept.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    6·
    14 days ago

    Trip’s the only one with cojones though. He reversed the polarity manually.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    14 days ago

    Yes, but they don’t reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

    Only The Doctor can reverse the polarity of something with no polarity.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    3·
    14 days ago

    You hear that? You hear that sound? jon pertwee’s coming on his hovercraft and he is pissed

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Those just sound like centaurs, not a reference to The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

      While I agree with the sentiment, forcing it everywhere and disregarding context is a bit much, no?

      If anything I think considering B’Elanna as one of the 4 horsemen without a care for sex/gender is a net positive.