this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
310 points (97.3% liked)
Risa
7546 readers
3 users here now
Star Trek memes and shitposts
Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
By the way, if you want to know whether or not this is canon? It's canon.
In 2266, Kevin Riley, under the influence of polywater intoxication, "ordered" a formal dance to be held in the bowling alley on the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "The Naked Time")
I love it!
"I mean, say what you want about the tenets of United Federation, Dude, at least it's an ethos."
Was bowling big in the 60s?
Yep. They had bowling on TV back then!
They even had bowling on TV through the 90s, actually. I used to watch it religiously before I was a teenager.
I haven’t watched broadcast/cable tv in years. Is bowling no longer aired? I never paid attention to it so I assumed it was just always there.
It wouldn't surprise me if it is still on but I don't watch TV anymore either. If my memory serves me correctly, I saw an 80s rerun on ESPN about 5 years ago, but for the life of me, I have no idea why I was watching ESPN to begin with. (Nostalgia, maybe?)
ESPN 8: The Ocho
Oh, I didn't mean ESPN. Remember, back then there were three networks. Bowling was a huge deal to take up that time.
They still have bowling on TV.
Are you guys trying to make me feel older than I really am?
Yes, but in the 60's there were like 5 channels at any given time on big cities.
NIxon had a bowling alley installed in the White House.
It's the most critical part of the ship-Kirk uses it for ~~showing off~~ "diplomatic meetings"
I'm picturing Data showing McCoy around the Enterprise-D in Encounter at Farpoint-
"Where's your bowling alley, boy?"
"We do not have a bowling alley here, sir. But we have a holodeck that can simulate a bowling al-"
"I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MIXED-UP MOLECULES! Where's the bowling alley? This is the Enterprise, boy!"
With the size of the Enterprise-D I'm astonished someone didn't stick at least a mini bowling alley in there somewhere
A third of the ship is all Holodecks*, so if you want to bowl you could just load a program up.
*Source: computed by taking the number of "holodeck is trying to kill everybody" episodes and dividing it by the total number of series episodes.
That is the best way of doing math lol
But does that mean there is a sliver of Risa in Deep Space Nine?
I bet it didn't survive the refit. Actually, I suspect that's where the "Rec Deck" from TMP ended up, though I have no proof (were the post-refit blueprints ever published?)
Which Enterprise is this in?
TOS.
Donnie tried to tell him but he told Donnie to shut the fuck up.
Those Old Scientists.
The best one
What if this was like how swing dancing came back for a hot minute in the 90s
If your curious about the rest of the blueprints
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/star-trek-blueprints.php
I used to have them on paper. I got them at a convention decades ago.