• Is it me, or are these getting darker? This isn’t the first Riker/Keiko joke, but man. What started out as poking fun at O’Brian is starting to feel like some more deep-seated issues.

    Can you show me on this doll where Chief O’Brian touched you?

    • @themakara
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      Whatever would dark about a man who is forever stuck alone in a room, doing a job that could be easily replaced by a computer, not being valued for his efforts, rarely smiling and having attempted suicide at least once? /s

      Tap for spoiler

      All jokes aside, yeah. The comic is pretty dark. And from what I’ve seen, it only gets darker.

      I wonder if that’s how the people in support feel right now, being replaced by incompetent, hallucinating LLMs …

      • @AceBonobo
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        52 months ago

        Your last sentence is somehow darker than the darkest O’Brien at work panel.

  • Flying SquidM
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    272 months ago

    Of course he’s joking. Riker knows enough to use contraception or he’d leave little Rikers wherever he went.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Do they even have to worry about that in the 24th century. I’m sure there are plenty of methods around that would make benign.

      • Flying SquidM
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        82 months ago

        Riker better not be raw dogging every alien he meets. I’m sure there are all sorts of novel STDs on new planets.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Oh that’s easy. Just take a quite site-to-site transport and the biofilters will clean all that right up.

        • Final Remix
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          22 months ago

          The crew is obviously stored in the buffer. Discrepancies like pathogens aren’t reconfigured, surely.

          • Flying SquidM
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            42 months ago

            Except for all those episodes where someone brings a disease from the planet up to the ship.

            • Zoot
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              12 months ago

              Yeah but those are just “Unknown” I’m sure most of the STD’s you’d encounter are no longer unknown… Or they haven’t shown all the riker escapades;).

              • Flying SquidM
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                12 months ago

                Yeah, but Riker keeps going to strange new worlds.

      • @Darkard
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        42 months ago

        “Computer, beam my sperm into space”

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    82 months ago

    Molly keeps pranking O’Brien because she heard what he did to her older time-twin.

    My daughter needs therapy? How about instead I abandon her to die alone like Tom Hanks in Castaway.

    • @Thteven
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      42 months ago

      Run along girl, you’re free now!