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I can accept it as the computer filling the gaps in description with presumed most likely real-world examples. You usually don't find slightly inclined metal tables outside of a medical context.

This segment Still seems like a nightmare for the Prop department

yeah that was pretty jarring. they could have shown a basic metal table, then cut away and skip forward, showing everyone looking tired and frustrated like they had spent a long time getting the table right.

@@adrianmizen5070 Problem is that would turn the scene into something comedic instead of horror like. They were going for scares not laughs. So they had to keep it short enough. For my money it moved at a reasonable pace.

@@Rensune There was a reason why only the final table was metal. I'm sure the prop department could whip up the wood tables fairly quickly using materials they had on hand.

Maybe more like the opposite. The computer produced the most likely real-world example of the crude specs given.

4:05 she asks the computer to connect the swing arm to the head of the table, and the computer puts it on a separate base

@@spaceboi1472 Google: _Did you mean "operating table"?_

@@Dowlphin lol... perfect! I thought the same when I originally saw this -- "man, the computer made some leaps". Now that I've seen internet search engines... it feels so much more believable.

@@johnpazniokas1143 Yeah, I imagine the computer deducted from the context, the way the requests were made that this was a vague brainstorming exercise, not a precise design process, so it took the few clues given and did some detective work to assist in figuring out what it most likely was that they saw.

He's Klingon. He has an obsession with blades. 😆

It's is

“Computer: recommend a method to ensure cheese adheres to a pizza?”

@@argvminusone There are 2436 pizza recipes on file. Specify the ingredients.

Holy cow, you're right.

They predicted so much

Yeah, heck only 2 minutes and the memory came back

Yup, when I saw this scene as a kid with my family I think we all pretty much said, "OH MY GOD!" in horror!

Me too

Especially when they added the insect-like chirping sounds.

For Troi, it would be

Just replace extraterrestrial with extradimensional :) Legendary scene.

Yea the Ferengi dentist lol

If you mention an inclined metal table, that's the first thing I imagine. So did the computer. The computer registered from the uncertainty expressed by the instructions that this was not a mediculous modeling exercise, but a conceptual brainstorming. This stuff is probably coming, and it should really worry us because it's not pushed by the Federation, but by a technocratic control regime. ChatGPT is an exemplary name.

@@Dowlphin The fuck? They just couldn't afford having more random and elsewhere unneeded tables, so they just skipped to the prop they were using

@@philippdf That might be the production story, but the result in-lore is not weird and I explained why not. When you ask the replicator for a glass of water, it doesn't request specifications for the design of the glass, because it understands different relevances and priorities and fills the gaps.

@@Dowlphin It does ask what temperature of water you'd like.

@@alanstringer. Exactly.

Conspiracy? That episode was flat-out disturbing.

They used the holodeck to investigate what happened in that episode as well. One of my favorite uses of the holodeck in that one.

I thought of this scene immediately when I started using ChatGPT. The computer in this show is very accurate

Because that was the nearest of the 5,000 chaires the computer had in its inventory that most closely matched the description

It was the most often requested kind of metal table :D Let the fun begin!

Barclay's been running some more interesting programs. Probably involving Wesley

Same with Conspiracy. Created a perfect enemy, zero follow up.

@@savagebear4374 Yeah, I'd loved to have seen a follow up episode or two to "Conspiracy". There were follows up though Star Trek novels which explained the parasites origins (Basically depraved mutated Trill symbiotes).

@@nicholasmaude6906Evil trill symbiotes? Hmm!

Maybe Memory Alpha can help.

No

I have a better question. Why does the tactician officer have to be STANDING at his console?

They realize they've all been having similar dreams and missing spaces in their memory. Turns out they've all been abducted by sinister aliens. "Schisms".

drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/1h-I3udUxdjoo43NWBVyLDr-iSj_KPzC-?usp=sharing. Enjoy, full episodes.

Schisms, one of the two scariest episodes of TNG. Tied with the first Borg episode, 'Q Who?'

@@williamjameslehy1341 I also liked the one where they couldn't achieve REM sleep. Parts of it were kinda hokey, but that scene with Crusher in the morgue...

Just buy them on DVD they are cheaper that way.

I suspect that they had the same experience, but interpreted it very differently. Like imagine taking someone from the stone age, bronze age, ancient Rome, and mediaeval England to a 21st Century steel mill, aboard a naval submarine, or to a city centre like Piccadilly Circus or Times Square. They'd probably describe it in very different terms when they got back to their own time.

​@williamjameslehy1341 I've read of a few possible alien abductions in the Victorian era that were described as using technology around at the time, but as you say it could be Victorian reasoning interpreting futuristic technology I've seen Stone Ages carvings very clearly depicting bizarre creatures in flying machines we would call flying saucers Perhaps aliens, inter-dimensional or time travellers

Probably her Greek blood shining through.

She's used to being the one held down 😅

You've not watched much of the series have you?

@@shrews12001I feel like this person just wants something to be mad at

@@vschmerz true