So it just occurred to me that during the TNG production era there is a shift in ship nomenclature:

  • TNG: The Enterprise
  • DS9: The Defiant/Yukon/Danube/etc.
  • VOY: The Voyager
  • (ENT): “Ennurprais” is all that’s left.

Seems towards the later shows they stopped referring to the ship as a, well, ship and just addressed it as a character? Why?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍English
    9•8 months ago

    Riker figured it out in season 2:

    Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.

    If you add the “the” its a jinx and you end up blowing up over and over again in a time loop, or hitting a quantum filament that takes everything offline but the gravity plating.

    • @[email protected]
      5•8 months ago

      What temperature does the nozzle and bed need to be for quantum filament to print right? Every time I tried, it made me a pair of ducks instead of a paradox, and benchy refused to print entirely.

      • @[email protected]
        4•8 months ago

        …and benchy refused to print entirely.

        Meanwhile in another Creality…

        “Where do all these benchies keep coming from! That’s the 5th one today!”

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍English
        3•8 months ago

        I like to test for temperature. Once the hotend is high enough to fuse an unnamed crew member with a bulkhead, you’re good to go.