A Typical Romulan Ploy

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[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

….”build ships in bottles when they were boys?”….now where did I hear that before? Lol 😆

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

"Where's the safest place on the ship we can discharge this phaser rifle?" "How about right next to the warp core, where one stray shot could blow up the ship?" "Perfect."

[@TheEDFLegacy]

OSHA called. The Enterprise-D is ordered to power down until further notice.

[@zagnorch1336]

Putting aside the whole deal about doing the test in engineering, there don't seem to be any significant safety protocols in place. LaForge could have tripped while walking over to Data, and get caught in the beam. Or they might not have fully secured the off switch on the phaser rifle, and LaForge could ahve taken a hit while leaning on the beam receiver at 1:37. I was half-expecting Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill Burns to suddenly pop up from out of nowhere and say, "Lemme show ya something!"

[@stars9084]

I do agree, though given how long the beam lasted I would assume it was at a very very low setting

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

Or use the Enterprise's actual firing range. Or the shuttlecraft set if they wanted to keep reusing the set.

[@ElKabong3345]

Slightest turbulence and he'd be shooting Data, whether the gun moved or one of them tripped to the beam. Judging how the slightest hit on the ship makes them all space ballerinas, that is HIGHLY dangerous what they're doing.

[@imofage3947]

Love how everyone else kinda fucked off from that scene, as if to say "Whelp, the blind guy and the robot are playing with guns near the anti-matter reactor. Better go hug my family one last time before I die."

[@Nisselak]

🤣

[@joelellis7035]

Whelp the blind guy and the android with no common sense are at it again! First the blind guy was teaching the android to paint. Now the blind guy wants to fire off a phaser rifle in the middle of Engineering. What next? Letting the Android run the whole ship from his brain?

[@imofage3947]

@@joelellis7035 Nah. Better let Barclay's brain run the whole ship instead.

[@TommygunNG]

As I recall, this episode was produced by Alec Baldwin. I'll have to check the credits to be sure.

[@joelellis7035]

@@imofage3947 Barclay had more common sense.

[@lesigh1749]

"I think we can narrow this down with a little *common sense* Data" Said the guy standing Infront of a target with his back to a live, locked and loaded phaser rifle they just decided is NOT a Starfleet issue weapon.

[@Blink_____]

that they are test firing in main engineering right next to the warp core, too.

[@matthewcampbell7286]

@@Blink_____ I sort of hope thee test is a very low power mode.. i.e. below stun. And there a force field around the warp core

[@chadrogers4811]

At least he's wearing protective eyewear

[@karanoelle4819]

@@chadrogers4811 I laughed at this way harder than I should have

[@LarryDickman1]

@@karanoelle4819Did you pee yourself?

[@marsgal42]

94% efficiency is a nice gift from the Romulans, but that still means something is dissipating 60 kilowatts. That could heat a lot of beans.

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

Yes! Cold beans are only for revenge. Warm beans please.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork come now, Captain, there’s no need to mince words. In space, all beans are cold beans.

[@glynncordry5965]

Well, technically the orange light is energy wastage. And it is making sound.

[@NorCalNavyMike]

Lots of beans.

[@mistermonologue2442]

​@@glynncordry5965 It's necessary. You can't eat your beans if your enemies aren't incapacitated.

[@Paul-A01]

Data: there are over 300 possible suspects Geordi: fuck it. Let's just blame the romulans.

[@TornadoHound]

I figure that they started from the most obvious and tested it against Romulan tech to confirm.

[@tbeller80]

Scientific method? Nah, let's go with our gut and work backwards.

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

What a space-racist.

[@jeremiahcunkle5938]

Also, three hours to check the files and make a match against 300+ versions? With an algorithm? The 90’s were wild.

[@Madcat6204]

@@jeremiahcunkle5938People really had no idea what computers were capable of back then.

[@hopdevil007]

Data : "Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range." Geordi : "Hey, only what you see, pal."

[@hobomike6935]

Data: My vision is functioning correctly. can you say the same?" Geordi:

[@SaucyJack.]

Nice terminator reference 🤣

[@hopdevil007]

@@SaucyJack. thanks, wondering if anybody would get it. They are both machines, after all.

[@marvelsandals4228]

Data: Good evening, sir. I am sorry to disturb you, however, this is a matter of supreme importance. As you can see, I am naked. I have completed a diagnostic scan of the surrounding urban environment and my sensors indicate that you are the closest match for my clothing size. As such, I would like to imitate a mugging. I formally threaten to cause you bodily harm, if you do not yield your clothes, boots, and motorcycle over to me within a time frame of 24.16432 seconds.

[@clancykohl]

Data: The Uzi 9mm

[@Justin_80]

Data: "We should test this in a holodeck, where it's safe, not next to a the warp reactor." Jordi: "I know Data, but Commander Riker has Maintenance working triple shifts hosing down the holodecks." Data: "Ah, I see."

[@All2Meme]

"Well, if it isn't Commander Super Soaker himself! The reason why all the holodecks are shut down, with hazmat signs at all the doors!"

[@stephengamber7000]

LOL!!! Just got this joke!

[@kev3d]

Especially after the Minuet Riker Minuet threesome.

[@computernoise2209]

They could use the extra energy discharge from the rifle to help sand off some of the more... difficult messes.

[@carloschristanio4709]

Maybe there were on tbe holodeck, just a projection of main engineering

[@kylegeorge4651]

"A typical Romulan ploy" I love how he delivers that line, it comes across as "Yeah they try this shit like once a month, every rebel, pirate, and slaver up and down the boarders between galactic nations is armed with counterfeit weapons manufactured by the Tal-Shiar."

[@pyorre2441]

I bet that is the case about half of the weapons, the other half? Klingon weapons, because Klingons do the same thing.

[@aguyhere7945]

The Federation, who very publically refuses to interfere in the internal workings of other worlds, arming separatists in the Klingon Empire knowing full well that the Klingons would see that as an act of betrayal and war? No way the Klingons didn't know from the beginning that this was a ploy of some kind, they just played along so they could flush the spy ring out.

[@All2Meme]

Well, if you were a self-respecting rogue you'd want to have the high-end Romulan stuff rather than the knock-off Klingon crap that looks like it's made from cardboard tubes!

[@moffxanatos6376]

@@All2Meme I dunno I think Cardassian stuff would probably have the right balance of quality, reliability, cost and reasonably low profile to not attract too much unwanted attention depending on where you operate. Romulan stuff is probably high maintenance and while I don't think getting on the Obsidian Order's radar is much better than the Tal-Shiar, I doubt they'd care as much about a few missing rifles.

[@bragnir]

@@moffxanatos6376 Especially if you BOUGHT those rifles. Do remember that most pirates are likely to go corsair, instead- and the Cardassians do love themselves easily replaceable third parties.

[@MajinOthinus]

Ironic that the ploy was dicovered, because the Romulan made weapon was too good.

[@safebox36]

Even more ironic, this actually happens with fake dollar bills as well. The ones made by North Korea are more accurate to design specs and more consistent with their materials than the ones made by the US Treasury, making them easier to detect.

[@Sage2000]

Indeed. And the idea of complementary power charging process leaving a discrepancy was very clever writing.

[@markgearing]

So... the conversation was basically: “This is more efficient than the way we do it”. “That’s because it’s how the Romulans do it”. “Cool and normal. We certainly wouldn’t want to do it that way, it’s more efficient. I’m an engineer”.

[@yegmeshjwp]

@@markgearing I don't know where I have picked this up but I thought Romulans technology is geared towards energy efficiency and performance at the cost of reduced safety/redundancy. Though in this instance it sounds like a better product with no flaws that the Federation should steal.

[@edwardsabean-untermann7225]

@@yegmeshjwp also, considering the above threads on firearm/phaser safety and where they were testing the darn thing, one would think that Starfleet has exactly *zero* protocols as far as safety/redundancy, so you'd think this would be a shoe-in to adopt!

[@russellthorburn9297]

0:21 so in the 24th century OSHA is completely abandoned. Geordie: Let's test this weapon. Data: OK Geordie. Geordie: Stand less than 30cm away from that target and then I'll fire this weapon, which we suspect has been tampered with, at it. Data: OK Geordie.

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Who's stupider, the guy firing the gun so close to his friend, or the friend who agrees it's a good idea? 😅

[@xacharon]

@@benjaminoechsli1941 The guy who also thinks its a good idea to stand BEHIND the target that the gun is actively shooting at. :)

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Sounds to me like the Romulans did Starfleet a favor by perfecting their standard model.

[@cobblerwillorange]

Can you imagine being the Tal'Shiar mission specialist engineer who was ordered to make the perfect duplicate of a Federation Phaser Rifle for some mission and he does the job but then can't resist that one last modification that improved the model? 🤣

[@HuntingTarg]

They were making a single replica that had to 'pass muster' ; they were probably aware of the individual weapon's characteristics, but not Starfleet specifications and tolerances. There was probably some cost-benefit analysis done in Starfleet to make a weapon that was appropriately efficient to both produce and use: Remember that in case of war, such a weapon would be the go-to standard-issue to ground forces and shipboard 'Marines', so it may have been a design intended for both small batch and mass production.

[@MrGoesBoom]

@@HuntingTarg and in this day and age that means something, but with industrial replicators not so much. I blame the writers

[@plezmybob]

I always liked the romulans.

[@DeathlordSlavik]

It wasn't the rifle itself that had improved but how they charged it as was mentioned in this scene. Basically if you took any federation rifle and use the romulan charging method you would see similar improvements.

[@FLAMINGBABYHEAD]

Well that's the kind of safety protocols I would expect from good old "exploding bridge consoles" Star Fleet. Carry on.

[@aluisious]

"Sir I recommend a design change to remove our explosives storage from the bridge consoles." "Shut up, Wesley."

[@FLAMINGBABYHEAD]

@@aluisious for real. You know for people who are always blathering on about relays, they don't seem to have discovered what relays are actually used for most of the time, which is controlling a dangerous high-voltage system from a much safer, low voltage system.

[@Bartonovich52]

@ Nobody Important Yeah.. but when you’ve got a warp core making power into the terawatt range.. you probably need gigawatts on the dashboard. Unless you have a relay for a relay for a relay …..

[@FLAMINGBABYHEAD]

@@Bartonovich52 they manage to control nuclear reactors with switches that don't have explosively lethal amounts of power running through them.

[@ElKabong3345]

Pretty much, you plug-in an air freshener on that ship? It might just be the thing that finishes you off by blasting you with 1.21 gigawatts in the next battle.

[@taopilot2669]

This is my favorite thing about Season 4, how there were all these Klingon and Romulan episodes all scattered about, coming to a head in the Klingon Civil War for the season finale.

[@tbeller80]

Pretty much the closest thing TNG had to a story arc. Maybe the Cardassian episodes could count.

[@Wesstuntube]

Let's see. This phaser is outputting at 1.05 MJ/s per Data's readings. For context, a high performance .44 magnum round carries about 2 kJ of kinetic energy. This phaser is outputting the energy of a machine gun that fires FIVE HUNDRED .44 magnum rounds PER SECOND. It's also about as powerful as an M1 Abrams tank firing its heaviest main cannon depleted uranium round at point blank range once every 12.6 seconds, which is a hell of a lot faster than a real M1 can manage. (M829A2 9 kg round at 1675 m/s muzzle velocity gives it a kinetic energy of 12.6 MJ). But go ahead and stand right behind the target Data. Perfectly safe.

[@TMS5100]

alec baldwin told them it was unloaded.

[@eq1373]

And let these things are just paintballs against the Borg.

[@Wesstuntube]

@@eq1373 Yep . . . They just modulate the frequency of their shields or whatever. Something tells me that their shields wouldn't save them from an M1 Abrams round. Issac Newton is a cold mistress and momentum must be conserved, regardless of your "phase modulation." Come to think of it . . . This is confirmed. In First Contact Picard mowed down a couple of the Borg with a machine gun after "turning off the safety mode" of the holodeck. All they really need to do to defeat the Borg is switch to projectile weapons instead of these sissy energy rifles. Apparently it never occurred to the brightest minds of the Federation.

[@momokochama1844]

The Abrams should work - First Contact shows Borg shields don't work against bullets

[@momokochama1844]

@@Wesstuntube it did - thats where that sniper rifle prototype from DS9 came from. in the end Starfleet opted to use modulating phasers, so it never went beyond prototype

[@coreymoore1443]

To be fair, Engineering probably has the strongest experimental containment force fields.

[@ghandimauler]

Right in the working area full of key controls for the core and routing of power around the ship?

[@qubex]

I know they’re firing away-from and not towards the warp core, but surely discharging a firearm in main engineering is not a sterling idea,

[@TommygunNG]

I believe Alec Baldwin was a contributing writer on this one.

[@christianvalentin5344]

“Ryan…be careful what you shoot at. Some things in here don’t react well to bullets.”

[@Iceykitsune]

@@TommygunNG Not cool.

[@TommygunNG]

@@Iceykitsune Totally cool.

[@rakninja]

@@TommygunNG not really. not because of the subject matter, but because you're trying too hard. you've made this same joke in at least three other comment threads, probably more. feels contrived and forced. suggestion for improvement, find a situation where the joke fits the events in the video. for example, you could probably do a real zinger with the climax of "the most toys."

[@tayzonday]

Levar Burton has a piece of lint in his hair at 1:43 and it’s driving me crazy 😂 - We didn’t see these things in standard definition.

[@youtube.commentator]

Chocolate rain?

[@Phoenix-zu6on]

where?? on the top left? isnt that just a reflection?

[@thejamesasher]

or it's a gray

[@swiggydiggy]

for me it's the black pieces of paper on the bridge consoles that they stuck up to hide reflections from the stage lights. Once you know they're there you see them all the time.

[@Tayvin4042]

@@Phoenix-zu6on Definitely not a reflection, he moves his head enough to show that it's not.

[@nnthayer]

1:36 Nobody accidentally bump the phaser right now, please.

[@joelellis7035]

No one was there. As someone else noted in another thread, it's likely the entire engineering staff fucked off to their quarters expecting the end to be near.

[@luisclaudiofugolin6250]

It´s impressive how much techobabble is required for this plot to make sense, and in fact, it does! Because they narrow down to an "E-band" frequency, and finding a constant flow on that "E-band" frequency was what revealed the whole plan.

[@M0butu]

Now I understand the joke in ENT, when Trip and T'Pol also test an alien weapon in Engineering. 🤣

[@GreenFenril]

We need to test fire this thing, where should we do it? Holodeck? Nah, let's put it in Engineering, and put the weapon a few feet away from an matter/anti-matter warp core; where a stray shot could blow us all to hell. What if we shoot it away from the warp core....to be safe. Yeah, but let's put the 2nd officer behind the target; just to keep things interesting

[@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732]

at least put a containment forcefield around the whole thing for safety.

[@kdrapertrucker]

Maybe we should do it in our dedicated weapons range?.......nah! Let's do it right next to the matter/antimatter reactor surrounded by vital systems.

[@ryavix]

Well at least takeover one of the 3 dedicated phaser ranges that every Galaxy class star ships have.

[@AaronCMounts]

@@ryavix Producers gotta have a set built for that room, first.

[@MarcMiller22]

All jokes about firing the rifle in engineering aside, note that the scene begins with dramatic music as Geordi carefully aims the rifle. I think we were meant to think he was getting ready to shoot someone.

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

Should have been him aiming down range, then cut to Data looking into his eye-line and him firing, only for the scene to cut wide to the testing scenario. Sweating bullets here.

[@peterjensen6844]

In the context of this episode, that would be a good scene

[@Dowlphin]

Yeah, the second cringy attempt after the drink spill. Reminds me a bit of Flight of the Navigator beginning, but there it was playful fun.

[@beege222]

Data: "Geordi, it does not seem sensible to test a replica starfleet weapon of uncertain origin in close proximity to the ship's primary source, which is highly explosive." Geordi: 'Data, we're both main characters. Our plot armor renders us perfectly safe.'

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

😆👍🍻

[@robertgodlement1241]

" let's test a phase rifle " " but where" " right in front of the wrap core and aimed at the main engineering console? " " great idea " 🤷‍♂️🤦

[@TommygunNG]

Alec Baldwin called. Asked what the big deal is.

[@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732]

that, plus put a safety forcefield around the whole thing. Whoops, Geordi slipped and got cut in two.

[@revmolter]

Exactly, it isn't like they didn't have enough space on the enterprise to use another science lab.

[@TommygunNG]

@@revmolter The holodeck, a cargo bay, the firing range... Precisely.

[@paulosullivan3472]

Even better lets get one of the senior members of the crew to stand right next to where we are aiming!

[@Dowlphin]

Data: _"We can probably achieve an exact match with a random computer search. It will take approximately three hours."_ Geordi: _Alright, then let's have the computer do it. I would take that long, too._

[@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286]

And Geordi just steps into the line of fire of the phaser he just shut off. Doesn't sound like very good range safety, does it?

[@slewone4905]

i work with Plasma. I told the service tech, I don't know what Plasma is. all I know, I learned from Star trek. He said, well, than you understand Plasma.

[@TheJadeFist]

To be fair, he is blind.

[@kevinwheesysouthward9295]

I’ve seen every episode of this show so many times that I can practically recite the dialogue from every one. I wish that they had a batch of shows that never aired that they would release. I grew up with TOS but I was in my mid-late teens for TNG and these characters feel like family to me

[@anotheran]

Testing a phaser output out in the open, always a good idea. Would be interesting if someone walked through the experiment.

[@Shiirow]

if someone decides to stroll through a large orange beam of charged energy, I think they deserve their fate as a winner of the darwin awards.

[@ghandimauler]

They could replicate a fully enclosed test chamber. They are just cowboys.

[@zagnorch1336]

0:12 "Hey, Data, I was thinking that we could re-eneact a moment in Earth's history called the U-70 Synchroton Particle Beam Accident. The phaser will be the particle beam, and you'll be Anatoli Bugorski. Whattaya say, good buddy?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3WXe2iMitycd9U

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

The smallarms safety blunders, in that scene .... positively heart-stopping! And the way the camera casually pans about and, suddenly, there's Data casually hovering around the target as if, like, "What could possibly go wrong?" 🤣

[@balcorn9211]

I love how La Forge is simultaneously working for the Romulans and exposing them

[@chadrogers4811]

"Hey Data, stand right behind the thing we are firing at."

[@DouglasZwick]

2:16 - Geordi: "I must kill the Queen... I must kill the Queen...."

[@warlockpaladin2261]

Khaaaaaan!

[@TheKrensada]

Oh yeah? Well two can play that game!

[@knndyskful]

What was that scene about? What did LaForge see about the Klingons?

[@kev3d]

It's Enrico Pallazzo!

[@kev3d]

@@knndyskful He was brainwashed by the Romulans to assassinate one of the Klingons, in hopes it would spark a rift between the Feds and Klingons.

[@john-paulgies4313]

"If we narrow their focus to scan for bean-band emissions, we might be able to calculate a directional vector...."

[@canuckster24]

And that's when Geordi farted.

[@colejohnson5026]

There's more techno babble in this one clip than some entire seasons of TOS.

[@TheMegaultrachicken]

I'm sure some of it makes sense

[@ejayerik]

Right in the middle of engineering. Poor Lt. Noname just stumbled through the phaser riffle beam on the way to his station.

[@travissmith2848]

Efficiency numbers bear further digging in my book. If the forced pulse "overcharge" results in actualized greater efficiency charge techniques should be updated.

[@kevinslater4126]

There might be safety issues with that Starfleet is unwilling to risk.

[@stars9084]

It sounded from the end like charging it that way took a lot more energy than it should

[@jdb2002]

The reason Starfleet doesn't is probably because it's more efficient or easier to charge it their way. It's the same reason we use aluminum for most metal items, even though titanium is better in every conceivable way-because aluminum is many many times more common and cheaper

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

@@jdb2002 Aluminum is about 2/3rds lighter than titanium and cheaper, but titanium is nearly as common as aluminum (Titanium being the 4th most common metal, and Aluminum the 3rd).

[@james13sylar]

It probably means changing all of their electric instalations, and while it increased the rifle's efficiency, it could be harmful to other devices. Also, they now know of a way to identify fake weapons, as long as the Romulans don't become aware of this, it will be more useful than a relatively small increment in efficiency.

[@rickdangerous1956]

Could you guys please test the deathray in one of the thousands of other rooms on the ship that don't contain a reactor full of antimatter that will explode the ship if shot by said deathray? Just a thought.

[@lukez9721]

Why are they shooting a phaser next to the warp core? For an engineer Geordi makes weird decisions

[@andrewolson5471]

Yeah, doesn't the Enterprise have a target range? They have everything else you can imagine!

[@TommygunNG]

Alec Baldwin was not immediately available for comment.

[@meldroc]

Geordi and his VISOR were both infected with Romulan malware at the time...

[@iceho6460]

Like a car mechanic, Geordie needs to work close to his work tools

[@bencordell1965]

It was set to stun

[@twostep919]

Geordie entering Predator mode.

[@knndyskful]

Yea what was that about? Did he see something though his visor?

[@davfree9732]

During that zoom in on Geordi, I keep hearing the ironside/kill bill siren

[@davisyoung4658]

I like how Geordi is just casually Alec Baldwining the phaser at Data with only that flimsy toaster oven looking thing in the way.

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

Doesn't even turn it off when Data walks directly behind the toaster, until like half a minute goes by. Even better to be firing the weapon directly next to the warp core.

[@jamesnewell1876]

This did not age well. 🤣🤣

[@TheKrensada]

@@jamesnewell1876 What are you talking about. that's Totally Alec Baldwining.

[@jamesnewell1876]

@@TheKrensada I’m saying the joke didn’t age well, it became a prediction. Lol

[@datastorm75]

I love how they are doing a weapon test RIGHT NEXT TO THE WARP CORE.

[@jessstuart7495]

It seems like there should be better locations on the ship to test out counterfeit phasors than 2 meters from the warp core.

[@DavidAWA]

@Leo Peridot That would be an amazing episode. I could see it with Wesley

[@hobomike6935]

"lets test it in Wesley's room, right next to his bed while he's asleep!" "an excellent decision commander. I will make the arrangements immediately."

[@BlackMasterRoshi]

@@hobomike6935 "Look Data, I'm your friend and I'm not just gonna *stand* here and watch you *do* this!" [sits down]

[@tzisorey]

I like how theyre performing this test in whats effectively a main walkway with a giant display behind the target. At least the warp core is behind the weapon, not behind the target.

[@peterjensen6844]

I love the setup of making it look like Geordi is sniping someone right at the begining

[@derBenIsPlaying]

The second time they fire, Data stands behind the collecting sensor array that is the target. Imagine the weapon buckled for some reason, a tiny bit. We would have had one less Data in one second.

[@james13sylar]

The thing that scared me a bit is that, unlike with the first shoot, Georgi wasn't looking at the target when he activated the phaser rifle. Sure, he had aimed it already and he warned Data, but he was a bit too careless about weapon security.

[@KipdoesStuff]

No one said it was on full intensity. It may have been set at a lower setting or some sort of test setting.

[@derBenIsPlaying]

@@KipdoesStuff I assume the rule "dont aim at something you dont want to destroy" and "always treat a gun as loaded" can be transfered to energy weapons, and in this case, "always treat a energy weapon as if it was on lethal setting" would be the correct rule analogy in energy weapon handling.

[@MedicineMan55]

Their basic weapons safety is pretty bad.

[@denniskasza6069]

did you notice that at the end of testing with the weapon still aiming at the target Geordy walks in front of the target

[@gabedamien]

Data: "...megajoules per second." Geordi: "you know you could just say megawatts?" Data: "sorry Geordi, but I do not use contractions."

[@zvpunry1971]

Data: "sorry Geordy, but I don't use contractions." kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4qUfJeHg9SXhJI

[@swishchee]

The Megawatt has stopped being a thing in the 24th century 0:44

[@lpg12338]

2:55 - That is a very nice shot of the Enterprise, very crisp and sharp. 😎

[@ppineault]

I could watch all your video contributions in a loop, I swear to gawd! :)....(am I in love with him or just the Star Trek snippets?) 😏

[@zagnorch1336]

Why can't you be in love with both... as most of us already are?

[@ppineault]

@@zagnorch1336 🤗👍👌😉

[@jerryjensen5700]

Another example of the Federation lacking an OSHA department.

[@honorboundfate9521]

Nick cage: NOT THE BEANS!

[@Nicolas_Cage_Bees]

Who?

[@honorboundfate9521]

@@Nicolas_Cage_Bees you know, the guy from national treasure.

[@Nicolas_Cage_Bees]

@@honorboundfate9521 Yeah but who is Nick Cage?

[@honorboundfate9521]

@@Nicolas_Cage_Bees you know, the guy from ghost rider.

[@Nicolas_Cage_Bees]

@@honorboundfate9521 No I think that's Nic Cage. I don't know who Nick Cage is though.

[@psmirage8584]

0:41 Data: "Energy usage remains constant at one point OH five megajoules per second." Ooops Brent Spiner. Data would have said "one point ZERO five."

[@AndrewMerts]

And he would have said Watts, not Joules per second like some clueless fool.

[@philly83]

This is not ours, it's too efficient.

[@enviritas9498]

When in doubt, it's the Romulans.

[@Dan-gy3cu]

It just seems to me that there are safer places to test that weapon other than in Engineering right next to the warp core.

[@obsessedwithcrypto4366]

The piano playing at the end sounds like it’s in the cheers bar

[@evilshews]

I like how both of them stand in direct line of fire 😂

[@eq1373]

For such futuristic weapons design, these guy do have some piss poor weapons safety procedures

[@Wesstuntube]

If a standard federation phaser rifle discharges at 1.05 MW, and the most efficient federation discharge crystal discharges with only 86.5% efficiency, that's still 141.75 kW of energy being dissipated as heat into the phaser rifle. That phaser rifle's gonna get PRETTY FRIGGIN HOT. Oh and let's also make sure the second officer is standing downrange inches away from the target so he can do measurements. Genius.

[@TMS5100]

this perfectly demonstrates hollywood's attitude toward all weapons. pretty easy to see how alec baldwin did what he did when they all think exactly like this. they never think about the safety implications of what they're doing. ever.

[@ionstorm66]

You don't know of the waste energy is all heat though.

[@Wesstuntube]

@@ionstorm66 What else then? Sound? That thing is pretty quiet. Waste energy must go somewhere. If it goes back into the power source it wouldn't be waste.

[@hphp31416]

@@Wesstuntube heat is transfered to superheated plasma that stays inside

[@Wesstuntube]

@@hphp31416 That heat still has to go somewhere. It can't "stay inside."

[@aluisious]

Jesus Christ this scene makes my skin crawl. Data steps behind the backstop, they're firing this thing in the engine room, I mean...come on.

[@moogleplay9131]

That seems super dangerous letting a phaser rifle fire like that in engineering

[@andrewhofmann5453]

To hell with the range safety protocols!

[@jasonwarren9279]

Nice safety protocols there.

[@TentaclePentacle]

these two really need a lesson in weapon test fire safety.

[@TMS5100]

they were taught by alec baldwin

[@brianpimental1668]

Always loved: Data: where should we test and fire this phasor? La Forge: Next to the warp core

[@terry9325]

Ups walking in front of a loaded gun , I know I’m a bit sad but I always notice these small things

[@TheBreadlord]

Geordi and Data just hanging out firing phasers inside and not inviting Worf. Monsters

[@TheOrangeRanger]

Even though I never understood the tech talk, I was like, "I like your funny words, magic man."

[@benvolio15]

I think this might be the first time we see a 24th-century phaser rifle; it's the only one that looks like it's built on the familiar type-II phaser model, and by the time of First Contact, they've moved on to the now-familiar Compression Rifle style that was also used in DS9 during the Dominion War and in the Voyager: Elite Force game.

[@Pantheroful]

That damn banana clip was nothing but trouble for Geordie, and eventually got the Enterprise-D (temporarily) destroyed.

[@tssteelx]

Ah yes the "lets fire the weapon by the fragile warp core.

[@BaronPraxis8492]

At least they aimed it away from the warp core.

[@JJKoester]

"It's a typical Romulan ploy. This is like their version of Duck Season/Rabbit Season."

[@ts25679]

Not only are they test firing a dangerous weapon outside of a range, but they're doing it in main engineering where any old extra could walk in on them. And Data is standing right next to the target!

[@neilkurzman4907]

Don’t forget they’re also standing right by the warp core so if anything goes wrong, they can take out the entire ship

[@williamnone]

And yet Picard couldn't understand why most people were just willing to let the Romulans die out in Star Trek: Picard.

[@james13sylar]

These are plots by the Romulan goverment and the military, not by all the people who happened to be Romulan, the farmers, the chefs, the engineers, they don't deserve to die just because they were born in a facist dictatorship. Even members of the military had shown to be against the wars, we got a defector that sacrificed his comfy life and abandoned his family to save people he didn't even knew. Obviously the citizens of the Empire would be affected by the propaganda, but if even former members of the Tal Shiar can come to be friends with Picard, there is no reason why the rest can't follow and make a better Romulan culture. The same goes for the Cardassians, their leaders jumped side to side between the Federation and allies and the Dominion, and got their planet nuked from orbit, but we saw, even for a short while, that not every Cardassian was Gul Dukat, they didn't deserved to die in such horrendous way.

[@LouisFredrickson]

Geordi spotting something funny and surprising Data never gets old.

[@skyserf]

2:47 Governor Vagh :You may go. Picard : Beeyotch please! We were leaving anyways!

[@AshleyJColeman]

I never noticed this before. If you look at his feet from the different angles the shadows completely change.

[@NoOne-yh4cl]

Cut to Barkley running straight into the beam.

[@nickblooruk]

I know they are actors, following a script, following a story, using harmless props..... but I can't help feeling nervous watching the actors walking, leaning and chatting casually whilst firing a beam.

[@TheJadeFist]

On top of a stack of random crates balanced upright by random objects.

[@adammclaughlin845]

"Where shall we test the weapon?" "How about in front of the warp core?"

[@WilfredIvanhoe]

Playing with phaser rifles right next to the warp core. Safety protocols at their finest.

[@muskyoxes]

"We need to run a long exhaustive search across many civilizations." "Okay, let's start with our biggest enemy. No need to have a prior inference before doing that, because duh."

[@SmokeyBCN]

Megajoules per second... we have a nice unit for that, Data, it's called the Megawatt.

[@fragglet]

Data: Where shall we test this suspect rifle? Romulan-brainwashed Geordi: The engine room. Right next to the warp reactor. Data: Hmm.... okay

[@Rahavin1]

Such an occupational hazard... Imagine someone or a kid not paying attention and stumbling into the beam. lol

[@Sei783]

I tell ya, that main sensor array gets calibrated a lot.

[@TheJadeFist]

To be read in Austin Power's voice "Calibrations YEAH BABY!!"

[@NatureAnimalsAmazingFacts]

Love thd idea of testing this in the engine room. Smart...

[@andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175]

I didn’t go to no fancy star fleet academy, but is it really a good idea to be testing phaser rifles out right next to the warp core?

[@DaxVJacobson]

To track the E-band we'll have to disable both the Dish network and Direct TV, so that will mean no PBS / This old Starship and ESPN 7's Parrises squares finals , instead play old episodes of the Canadian curling finals till we find the source!

[@jacobhayes3438]

Testing a weapon right in front of the warp core. Bold!

[@rsrt6910]

Does anyone else find Gordi and Data's lack of basic gun safety disturbing?

[@yagsyags5694]

I have complete faith in Geordi and Data to test this weapon safely. I find your lack of faith disturbing.

[@brucea9871]

Data: "Energy cell usage remains constant at 1 point O 5 megajoules per second". An android would not make the common human error of referring to the number "0" as the letter "O". Also is Data unaware that a joule per second is a watt? It would be more efficient to say 1.05 megawatts.

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

"What?" "What watt? Only one watt! That's very dim!" Spike Milligan

[@aresmars2003]

Unidirectional vectors are always difficult to deal with. I guess that means magnitude zero or where the level of measurement noise exceeds the signal strength.

[@AC3handle]

Interesting. When I initially watched this, and even on some reruns, it never occured to me the safety issues of this setup. Watching it here, on this channel on youtube, that's my first thought, 'are you guys NUTS?'

[@calsavestheworld]

@1:36 Are you sure wanna stand there, Jordy?

[@conservativemike3768]

Typical Hollywood weapon safety on set.

[@jakobbraun5180]

funny that they do that kind of experiments near the warp core