Sunday
Nov202011
|
Top
Search
Or, please consider donating just a little something to help keep Basic Instructions going.
Recent Instructions
Feeds
Contact Scott
November 20, 2011
Reader Comments (42)
Rick bashing is totally not a fault of this comic.
Already my favorite comic strip, but this one made me laugh out loud.
this comic is so good I am unable to do anything but stare it
I . . . never thought about ST:NG that way. And you're right. Curse you. But then, the fourth panel was a belly laugh, so I forgive you. :)
"Counselor." And Deanna is just "sensitive" ;D
I didn't believe you about Troi having at any point led an armed attack against the Federation. She did. It was while under cover as a Tal Shiar operative working for the Romulan underground resistance. Had to look it up though.
This was my favorite comic so far. Star Trek TNG: Committee meetings in space!
Is it me, or do most of the jokes you make at Rick's expense allude to how much you insult Rick?
There are not enough shows about committee meetings!
simply awesome
Hey, Wiki doesn't help here, and I can't get ahold of and watch every episode, so would you mind listing the episodes where they each lead an armed attack against the Federation please? :D
Also, thanks for posting by the time I wake up every day, without ever letting the quality of your strips falter. I HAVE TASTED THE SLAW!
Note from Scott:
It's been years since I watched all the episodes. At one time my Brothers and I did go through each member of the bridge crew one by one and name their armed freak-out. Let's see.
Picard- Wolf 359 with the Borg
Riker- Transferred to a Klingon Bird of prey, of which he took command and fired on the enterprise.
Data- Hard to pick just one. Lets go with the opening 5 minutes of Star Trek: Insurrection.
Worf- Left the Enterprise, rejoined the Klingons, fired on the Enterprise. (I have this theory that Worf idolized Riker)
Troi- Served aboard a Romulan ship undercover and ended up engaging the Enterprise.
Having trouble remembering the examples for Geordi (who did turn into some kind of weird shadow creature and attack someone), Dr. Crusher (Who left Enterprise in the hands of Pulaski, which should count as a hostile act) or Wesley. Maybe some of you can help me out.
Let's not even get started on the "Geordi Will Never Get Laid" pattern.
I don't think it's fair to count Locutis' attack as an attack from Picard.
Note from Scott: I see what you're saying, but I still say he was an integral part of an armed attack on Federation forces. If you don't agree, there's still Insurrection, or the time he and Riker rooted out a parasitic alien takover of the Federation by graphically phasering and admiral's torso to kingdom come.
Nerrrrrrd. =P
Also, Rick-bashing is the best part of the comic... Except maybe the bird freak-out. Bring back the bird-face!
Also remember that Riker was split in half at one point, and the other Riker went on to become a major player in a terrorist organisation, even stealing a Federation warship. So he could use it to attack the Federation.
Note from Scott: YES!! I'd forgotten about that! He had a Riker Prime disguise that consisted of fake sideburns to make his VanDyke a "full Riker."
Scott, you are so right about Pulaski!
I read all these comments, and my mind only has three things to say:
1) Great instruction
2) @Paula the proper abbreviation is "ST:TNG" (sorry, can't help it), and
3) Scott's facial hair note in wintermute's post was the funniest thing on this page.
don't forget, every episode also contained running a level three diagnostic on one system or other....
and Deanna wasn't nuts, as a half breed Betazoid she was just trying to "fit in"!
I don't think Tasha Yar ever led an attack on the Federation but her alternate timeline self's daughter did. Geordi pretended to attack the Enterprise when he was kidnapped by the short bus aliens.
Note from Scott: I loved that episode, although I always called them the Panda aliens. I laughed out loud when they would just casually shoot Geordi.
Doesn't matter if Deanna was or wasn't nuts, she was hot.
Literally laughed out loud at the fourth panel!
Yeah, the "movie" INSURRECTION is a multitude of sins, and was the first thing I thought of in re "armed attack."
In regards the Paklids -- the mentally defectives from Samaritan Snare -- SF Debris postulates they're the result of Phlox's eugenics project in ENT ep Dear Doctor. (That only works, of course, if you consider ENTERPRISE to be part of the same universe as TNG.)
Note from Scott: I believe that the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture depicts the creation of the Borg ... DISCUSS!
Admitting a flaw/poking fun of yourself = -1 flaw.
Another pattern for ST:NG is that every crew member acquires a family, one family member at a time. Even Data, an -android- ends up with a mother, a father, a brother, and a daughter.
Great comic as always. Committee meetings, IN SPACE!
One thing most Trekkies can agree on: Enterprise should've been about the Earth-Romulan War as opposed to doing everything possible to ruin continuity. Discuss.
I've always speculated that V'ger was the catalyst that led to the borg. Just makes sense in a ST kinda way.
Also this comic, and every other comic you do, is dipped in awesome sauce and sprinkled with win.
Hilarious as always, and eye-opening. I'll never look at the show the same way again.
Incidentally, did something change on your website over the weekend? Trying to visit the site sends Firefox 9 beta into a death spiral. I had to read today's comic in (ugh) Chrome.