this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
214 points (99.1% liked)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
3587 readers
1 users here now
/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Hating someone off of their race, culture, creed, sexuality, or identity is not remotely acceptable. Mistakes can happen but do your best to respect others.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon' and fuck over our artist friends.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Honorary Badbitch:
@[email protected] for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Well, shit, now I want to know if there was an accepted definition, either in industry or among enthusiasts, for what circuits going "haywire" meant.
So that's a fun term. Originally it referred to the bundles of hay wire uncoiling themselves in a rapid manner. They're coiled and kept under compression and when you snip it lose it goes SHUBADUBLEWUBLEDUBLEABLE.
technical term
In use for marketing purposes it's intentionally vague. It's basically claiming that the electronics inside won't catastrophically fail unexpectedly.
Have you even owned a old analog TV?
It's been decades, but yes, some that even responded to "percussive maintenance." I just don't know if that amounts to "haywire," lol.
I actually forgot I used to bang on my old TV to clear the picture. I wonder how simple it would have been to actually fix it.
Haywire is when the TV needs to be tuned. I'm talking about adjusting those knobs.