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      They ran through at least 3 of them, the position was probably seen as cursed by the time La Forge got it.

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      Geordi was too busy getting an autograph. That being said, Discovery still doesn’t have a chief engineer and were going into the fifth and final season.

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    Geordi: but the book says…

    Scotty: forget it Laddie, I wrote the bloody thing.

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    That was kinda the cool thing about Geordi … he kinda epitomised the competence porn vibe for me … turned the miracle worker thing into a “professional that’s just the job that I’m rather qualified and prepared for and lucky to be doing something I like” thing.

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    Trip: There’s a book What’s a book?

    My favorite character in ENT. But holy shit do they make him seem like a complete moron for the first three seasons.

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    Before Miles is kidnapped by the Cardasians, his wife is mad at him because he brought a stack of engineering books to read on their vacation.

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      There is a scene in the fourth season when Tucker is the chief engineer of the Colombia and he is calling for tolerances in the dilithium crystals to be tighter than spec. When an junior engineer challenges him by saying the spec says a higher number, he pushes back saying that he’s actually been running the warp engine and he knows better.

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        I’ve been in situations like that at work. I always ask what the senior worker’s reason for doing things different is, because then I’ve benefitted from their experience too

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    The bottom three are all in contention for my favorite, but I absolutely love Tig in anything she’s in.

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      Agreed. So incredibly dry and done with your shit. I fucking love every scene she’s in. Quotes of hers just keep bouncing around in my head although for some reason one is standing out at the moment. “I can fix that analogy of yours with duct tape too, if you want” followed by a gum bubble pop.

      If I wasn’t gay and if she wasn’t gay…

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      I saved the meme before Strange New Worlds was released. If I had to add Hemmer now I’d probably say something like

      Is one with the book

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      Lets the book flow through him

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        So everyone has universal translators and thus can speak English right…how’s that work with Braille? Or does Hemmer have an audiobook narrated by the Reading Rainbow guy

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          By “Reading Rainbow guy” you mean Geordi La Forge?

          Yes, he recorded audiobooks for most of the Starfleet manuals during the events of “Time’s Arrow”. Then La Forge left them in a cave, and the recordings were later found by Hemmer, but he successfully hid their origin.