Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/19/holodeck-program-interface-spo.html
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Nit pick: It’s hilarious, but the official LCARS font is Swiss911 ultra-compressed. (Mind you, I don’t use it either. I tried downloading one, but the positioning was off.)
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It begs the question…who thought that recreating COVID Times was a fun idea?!
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omfg what is the POINT of the holodeck safety protocols if they keep being overridden or fail? Computer, END PROGRAM!
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Any moment, we’ll all fade away, leaving Riker discussing his promotion to captain of the USS Titan.
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Oh crap, this explains the last three-plus years.
COMPUTER, END SIMULATION!!
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Unfortunately, I think it’s more a case of being trapped in a horrible alternate universe. The only Riker we’re going to get is this one:
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Never holodeck while tripping red pills, because there’s always more rabbit hole.
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I think I will flick it forward to 2022.
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The world can use more of this kind of thing.
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A Ferengi software virus in the simulation would explain a lot.
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Why would they do that? Then they couldn’t profit from renting out the holosuit… far more likely it’s the Cardassians… or Kardashians…
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Could this all just be a simulation? Let me think about that for just a minuet.
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Is it positively awful that I wish that there were an IRL version of transporter controls like this, and some sad-sack adrift loner just stumbled across them, resulting in a distressingly compelling adaptation of https://chiefobrienatwork.com/?
It’s not fun, it’s training. “Lieutenant, we’re preparing an away team to a planet which has been under quarantine for about one year, Earth time. Go join the group on Holodeck 9 to practice proper social distancing and hygiene in a lower-tech culture; training should take about one week.”
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The account appears to no longer be there because that’s a screenshot from Facebook. The creator is tweeting from this account:
Now, if you’ll excuse me. Computer; arch.
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Onscreen font for animated LCARS in Macromedia Director to be composited later (they didn’t have onsite playback in TNG because of flickering) used Swiss but I believe the actual panels were cut by hand, possibly letraset so would have been one of the Helveticas. I think they harmonized them in later series’
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Yeah, and we don’t get this Riker for very long. Sorry “clawing for survival Riker”, you were destroyed to progress a plot point.
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Computer - Arch!
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