Today’s User Friendly doesn’t make much sense to me. Does anyone get it?
It’s a vague reference to Shatner’s “Get a Life” skit on SNL, where a trekkie at a convention asks him about the safe in the captains’ quarters:
More generically, there are two scenes in two episodes of Kirk opening his safe and in each there apears to be a different combination. This apparently has been a longstanding irritation to some of the geekier members of the human race. Why they can’t just fanwank it to “Kirk changed the combination” is a mystery.
Or possibly, “This program was produced before the era of VCRs and back then no-one really cared about that level of continuity.”
I don’t think “mystery” is sufficient to describe it, actually. They fanwank everything else away with the most torturous logic ever witnessed by a human being, but the idea that a starship captain might change the combination of his safe every now and again doesn’t occur to them.
So, what kind of “future safe” did they cook up for him? Was it a dial type or push button of some kind?
Push button.
And there were people paying detailed attention to the pattern in which he pushed the button… Wow! :eek:
That makes the comic much more entertaining. Thanks for the responses.
Which apparently had no numbers on them. According to this site, the combination is: 5-2-3-1
To be fair, if he needs numbers on such a short row of buttons, it’s time for another competency hearing.