VOY: Someone To Watch Over Me

[CrypticMirror]

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v916.php

Is the title a Red Dwarf reference? Because Rimmer's disastrous lesson in love in Thanks For The Memory also featured that song. Thin reasoning? I'm claiming it anyway.

As for the nano-probes being used for such a petty reason, eh, sorry Chuck gonna have to disagree. We humans have a long history of taking super big stuff and using it for petty reasons. Early warning radar, used for ensuring the safety of nations and protecting millions from attacks? We use that for cooking popcorn now. Literally, the first thing Percy Spencer did when discovering a radar beam had melted some chocolate in his pocket was to go and get some popcorn and deliberately cook it. If we did have lightsabers, then the first non-military application would be miniature versions as butter knives. Using nanoprobes for sobriety and hangover cures, yeah I can see us doing that.

I found a list of frivolous uses of important tech:
http://madartlab.com/on-the-frivolous-u ... echnology/
And Panasonic once blew $60million to develop a robot to fold your laundry (for real, not an April Fool).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38047950

[Riedquat]

There was that mini lightsabre joke in the rather poor Hitch-hiker's film, where it was a breadknife that toasted it at the same time.

Nanoprobes can sober you up? If that comes with no hangovers then sign me up for the Borg. First time being with them has had any appeal.

Sometimes seemingly frivolous applications are chosen by developers because they can be technically difficult tasks, such as the shirt folding robot. You can sometimes get quite a lot of useful general development by aiming for such things. And in any case plenty of pretty sophisticated technology gets used for very frivolous things - we're talking about someone making often snarky entertainment about another piece of entertainment with it after all.

[Yukaphile]

Wow, was cruising through Chuck's B5 reviews, exploring the wonders of that universe, and he drops another Voyager episode on us! Time to offer my thoughts on the review!

I really wanna see a porn version of Skynet. The machines are coming to give us orgasms!

TOBIN?! What is Colonel Tobin doing on Voyager?!

TOTALLY SPIES! TOTALLY SPIES! TOTALLY SPIES REFERENCE! Aw man, that was my jam as a kid! And I sooooooo had a monster crush on Alex as a kid, mooning over her and gushing over what a beautiful name she had. Her and Misty. And May.

Chapman? OMG THE YEERKS HAVE INFILTRATED VOYAGER! ... y'know what, they can have it! Hahaha, I am pure evil.

Vin Diesel reference, woo-hoo!

Black Belt in Riverdancing sounds like the name of a movie!

"Inventing the lightsaber so you could use it to shave..." LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Is it sad I could see humans doing that?

And of course, in some Star Wars parodies, they do just that with mini-lightsabers.

[Yukaphile]

OMG DID CHUCK REFERENCE THE THREAD I STARTED, WAS CHUCK WRONG ABOUT NEELIX?! PINCH ME, I MUST BE DREAMING... (faints)

[bronnt]

"Even Romeo and Juliet hit a few snags at first."

Someone who must be a professional writer apparently is so clueless that they think Romeo and Juliet is a love story, rather than a tragedy about angsty teens.

[G-Man]

It's sort of interesting that they had Scott Thompson play a womanizer, because - at least at this point in his career - he was often typecast as a very stereotypical gay man (he is gay in real life).

[Yukaphile]

Maybe he wanted to try something new?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

OMG DID CHUCK REFERENCE THE THREAD I STARTED, WAS CHUCK WRONG ABOUT NEELIX?! PINCH ME, I MUST BE DREAMING... (faints)

Well I brought it up in the "things you disagree with Chuck about" thread. Though I'm not certain I was actively disagreeing with him, just musing a quip about my fondness of him contrasting Chuck's comedic despising.

[clearspira]

OMG DID CHUCK REFERENCE THE THREAD I STARTED, WAS CHUCK WRONG ABOUT NEELIX?! PINCH ME, I MUST BE DREAMING... (faints)

Well I brought it up in the "things you disagree with Chuck about" thread. Though I'm not certain I was actively disagreeing with him, just musing a quip about my fondness of him contrasting Chuck's comedic despising.

Yeah, sorry Yuka. Disagreements about Chuck and Neelix are old as this forum.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Kinda like a chicken and the egg thing?