DS9 s3e26 "The Adversary"

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[–] 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

"It's the 24th goddamned century, and we still haven't mastered basic cable management."

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Hmm. Why organize with those fiberoptic wires at all when all programming is done by organizing isolinear chips in a grid?

    (Also, as easily as those chips pop out, every time the inertial dampeners fail just enough for the crew to feel hull damage but not enough to turn them to paste, they would all fall out and require Data to reorganize them.)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm convinced the chips do nothing, and the entire thing was dreamed up by the daystrom institute as a way to keep hyperactive engineers busy without fucking anything up, while the computer actually just solves everything.

    Data is the only character we see with a dedicated computer in his quarters, and I bet that's for a very good reason.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Maybe it's all wireless and the cable horror is just for messing with intruders.

    Meanwhile cable management in Star Wars:

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Pffft. * Laughs in telecom*

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  • **cking Cardassian, they don’t know how to cables manage.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Cardassian cable management is the strongest evidence of their non superiority. 

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "Wait a minute, none of the punchdowns match the listed switch ports."

    Oh dear... 🔪

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    cracks knuckles

    Alright, time to do a scream test

    pulls a random cable

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Hey, that reminds me of my job!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Quantuum Bong

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