In another scene, Geordi needs to extract important information from the beagle that a devious Romulan put there. He waves his blinky light
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In that scene, on mute: he waves his blinky screwdriver. He gets angry. Waves it again, then smiles. He did it! He downloaded from the dog!
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Unmuted: Geordi explains he needs to scan the dog's prions for subspace signatures matching the encryption key found on a Romulan's nose
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Maybe in another scene that beagle needs to be turned into a bomb. Or analyzed to see if it is actually Picard. Or whatever.
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In each case that blinky screwdriver comes out, and in each case no engineering takes place if you mute it.
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In each case, all engineering looks exactly alike. The only difference is the magic spell used.
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Compare it to Harry Potter on mute. No matter what spell Hermione uses, it involves waving a wand.
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Only when unmuted can you tell that Hermione is doing this spell instead of that. Which makes sense: she's using magic, for fuck's sake.
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On TNG, you could literally CGI replace each blinky screwdriver with Hermione's wand, and nothing changes. "Expeliarmus!"pic.twitter.com/zay7ZlOaHc
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TNG, on mute, displays a world just as magical, and devoid of muggle engineering or science, as Harry Potter.
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That's the point, it's a future so advanced the tech does everything for you. Clarke's Third Law
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The tricorder is supposed to be an Anything Device, that's the intent behind designing it that way
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