I didn't see mot of those episodes, but from perusing Memory Alpha, I didn't see anything about White besides it was used to keep the Jem-Hadar soldiers working. Did it have a drug-like effect in non-Jem-Hadar? Or has White just ascended into pure meme status?
From what I recall, it’s not that KW is made to hook the Jemmies, but rather the Jemmies are genetically engineered to find it irresistible. The rise in memes is likely because of the recent Lower Decks episode where Mariner implies she has taken it.
When the Opioid crisis was just starting to become mainstream about ten years ago (I know it’s been going on for longer than that) … I had a couple of friends in their 20s die of overdoses from medications prescribed by doctors and many friends got addicted to this shit from doctor prescriptions … I had to warn a few friends not to follow through with their doctors advice … I had one friend with minor back pain prescribed powerful opioids … another with a toothache … and another with recovery from a broken bone. I know I’m no doctor but these were healthy people with minor aches and pains that were manageable, not debilitating pain they had to survive. Doctors back then were just handing them out like aspirins because everyone said they weren’t addictive.
One terrible story is of an old friend in his 60s who had cancer treatment … they successfully treated his cancer but they hooked him on opioids that drove him insane and his family had to deal with the fallout of his addiction for years after having dealt with cancer.
Wasn’t there an episode where they said it would take like 24 hours and they were told you have 12 so the tech replied with “that’s now how it works sir it will take 24 hours”
LaForge is the kind of guy that always ends up putting his team on crunch time, because he fails both to manage up, and to create buffers for estimation errors or unpredicted issues.
Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.
Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.
Tbh I don’t get these kind of memes, as far as I remember picard never really gives a deadline, just asks for it as quick as possible, with geordi busting his ass every time to try to get it done, regardless of whether or not it’s actually possible.
And, in those situations, I really don’t think picard is being unreasonable. When your options are “do the tech thing” or “have long odds at pulling something else off”, asking for the tech thing as quickly as possible sounds pretty reasonable to me
She once balanced a phaser between two random shuttle components to rig up an ad-hoc force field that saved her and the shuttle crew from being blown out into space. And she managed to save the shuttle, a shuttle she had just finished to help design and build in a matter of weeks. The best chief engineer in starfleet.
I’m deep into a long overdue Voyager rewatch, and forgot how awesome she was.
Every worker needs some time for themselves. Nobody is capable of doing a single job for multiple hours without at least some slacking off. It is human nature.
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