I read once that a silicon life form would burst into flame in an oxygen atmosphere! Johnny Horta Torch!
Speaking of Shore Leave, my theory is that there IS no “keeper”. The planet is fully automated (and designed for beings more advance than humans) and it gives you whatever you want. When everybody wanted an explanation, the planet gave them one their primitive minds could handle.
But I reversed the polarity of my microwave and now I get ice in three minutes.
Not a bad theory, but in one of the Animated episodes they returned to the planet and found the keeper’s grave. TAS is considered canon these days, right?
My theory is that the shore leave world later became known as Risa.
I figured that there was a giant tank of antimatter that annihilated “spooge” but nothing else.
I vaguely recall somebody “waiving their hands” in that general direction.
I loved that character. He also had a program with a character who looked like Riker but was a 5’1” buffoon.
And if you put instant coffee in the microwave you can go back in time. (Old Steven Wright joke)
I thought not, but I could be behind.
Now that I can get behind!
We all know what the holodeck is really used for. And we know what the worst job is on the Enterprise - having to squeegie clean the holodeck.
All the spooge and detritus is raw material for the food replicator.
Nonsense, I’m sure Vulcan Love Slaves is one of the great epics of Vulcan history.
Pulaski, not Crusher.
Nice catch! I remember her vaguely, but I had forgotten her name. One season only?
It’s OK, because there is also a new, junior member of bridge crew, who we have never seen before, in the away team
I read somewhere that a silicon-based life form would be problematic because, assuming the biochemical processes are analogous to carbon-based life forms, the silicon version of carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide, could not be exhaled because it’s a solid (we know it better by the name ‘quartz’). But a silicon-based life form could just poop out its waste silicon dioxide, couldn’t it? I’m not too well-versed on silicon-based biochemistry.
Yes, and it was the final show of the second season. Hence the use of clips.
The planet in “The Devil in the Dark” supposedly had an “artificial oxygen” atmosphere that allowed the miners to work there.
That might explain ho a silicon-based life form could evolve there, but not what kept it from catching fire now.
She is a good actress, but I could never warm up to her in that role. One scene I loved, though, was the scene where she was talking to Lt. Commander Data where she inadvertently pronounced his name incorrectly.
Perhaps.
But we call ourselves “carbon-based life”, not “carbonate-based life” or “carbonyl-based life” or even “hydrocarbon-based life”, etc.
Though I admit that “hydrocarbon-based life” might in fact be a better descriptor for our own basic chemistry than simply “carbon-based”.
Why annihilate the spooge? Just resequence the proteins into the replicator. They recycle everything on a starship.
Ninja’d!