sayitghoul 56 points 3 years ago

The way he says it makes perfect sense to me from a programmer point of view.

First, type of drink Second, subtype Third, whether its hot or cold

Although technically, you wouldn't have a cold earl grey tea, but still. It makes sense.

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Daxtron2 8 points 3 years ago

Iced earl grey is actually really good

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Seasm0ke 1 point 3 years ago

It is very good, the coffee bean and tea leaf can make it for you in a 32 oz cup. Back when I was getting them it was like three dollars and change.

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RoyalEngineering 7 points 3 years ago

I’ve had an iced earl gray.

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samus12345 3 points 3 years ago

But people can ask the replicator for an item any old way and it seems to work fine.

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SpaceCowboy 7 points 3 years ago

Yeah but did replicators work the same way when Picard was a young lad having his first cup of Earl Grey?

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ummthatguy 3 points 3 years ago

No replicators. Only the real thing.

Fake mother, notwithstanding.

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DustyNipples 2 points 3 years ago

'course it's 'ot, what you want in it?

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Hobbes_Dent 47 points 3 years ago

“Hot Earl Grey tea.”

*saucer section rotates 180 and reattaches*

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Bishma 33 points 3 years ago

If you order English Breakfast the computer schedules your next transporter "accident."

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FlyingSquid 36 points 3 years ago

Is it the computer or is it this proud Irishman?

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OsaErisXero 14 points 3 years ago

Who do you think set up the computer?

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gravitas_deficiency 10 points 3 years ago

Always make sure to conspicuously order Irish breakfast tea when the O’Brien is around to ensure proper transporter safety protocols.

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SpaceCowboy 1 point 3 years ago

Would Irish coffee be ok too? I gotta stay alert when I'm driving the ship...

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stoicmaverick 2 points 3 years ago

If he finds out that you ordered a pint of Guinness cold instead of room temperature, he'll just stab you himself to be sure.

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orphiebaby 3 points 3 years ago

Find hot-tea grey-earls in your area!

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HotsauceHurricane 44 points 3 years ago

Type/variant/temp

Makes sense to me 🤷‍♂️

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FlyingSquid 15 points 3 years ago

I would think a computer that can make a living person on the holodeck just by telling it to beat Data can handle "tea, Earl Grey, hot" or "Earl Grey tea, hot" or "hot Earl Grey tea."

Edit: Really, it should just know what Picard means when he says "tea" after he's done it multiple times.

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ricecake 14 points 3 years ago

It's also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy. Remember how they walk around delivering tablets to people for the mail?

Little details about how technology would actually develop stand out super bad when they get close but just miss how things actually went.

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Dasus 5 points 3 years ago

It's also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy.

Yeah TNG pilot literally has a character go "Oh you've never been on one of these Galaxy class ships" to Riker, after which she shows that you can ask directions from the computer. And then helpful arrows start blinking to direct Riker to the holodeck. (I don't know if those guiding lights are ever seen again in the canon. Might be, I'm too lazy to find out rn.)

Majel Barrett sounded so young, I just watched that episode a couple of days ago.

One episode of Voyager made me giggle a bit. It's a ship with "bio-neural circuitry". One cold open, there's some phenomena they want to look at, so Chakotay tells Seven who then assigns an ensign to take a pad to B'elanna in engineering with the turbolift, and then B'elanna sends a "power requisition" through another person, via a pad, to the theoretical physicist somewhere in the bowels of the ship, who then has a bit of a chat with the person delivering the pad and then enters the changes into his work station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ud8HJgUoQs

I get that with ships that complex, you might have people at different points verifying the commands, so that it's not just automated, but since they're all connected, what's the point of physically walking the pads there?

And that episode aired in 2000.

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5too 2 points 3 years ago

In what I suspect was an unintentional callback, there's an episode of Strange New Worlds where the computer guides someone as well. No arrows this time, it just blinks the hall lights in a pattern.

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hips_and_nips 4 points 3 years ago

early 90s

Aliasing has been available in UNIX since the C Shell in 1978.

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FlyingSquid 2 points 3 years ago

I doubt the makers of TNG knew a lot about UNIX.

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ricecake 0 points 3 years ago

Alright? And how often do you talk to talk to bash?

The point is it's a TV show from the 90s. They had a few misses regarding how technology would end up looking.

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SpaceCowboy 3 points 3 years ago

Obviously they have to keep the tablets in airplane mode or it might screw up the navigation system causing the Enterprise to crash into a star.

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Swedneck 6 points 3 years ago

"the same procedure as last year, miss sophie?"
-"the same procedure as every year, james!"

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pretzelz 4 points 3 years ago

I mean, yeah. It's just like selecting from a menu. And it's disambiguating for the parser, which after using gpts is helpful. I mean he could have bound tegh to any thing I guess, so maybe it just makes the most sense to his logical mind

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z00s 35 points 3 years ago

This should so have been a plot point in an actual episode... saying "hot Earl grey tea" sends an encrypted distress signal on all federation frequencies

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gamermanh 32 points 3 years ago

The Enterprise uses the same drinks machine as the Heart of Gold, I see

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Dave 31 points 3 years ago

I just assumed that he's in the habit of doing it this way after the time he said "Hot Earl..." and suddenly there was a ripped British nobleman sitting on his replicator.

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Daxter101 24 points 3 years ago

So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek... Can someone please explain?

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ricecake 37 points 3 years ago

Bald guy (captain Picard) always orders his tea in a way that kind of sounds odd given how voice interfaces actually turned out. (Tea, Earl grey, hot)

Another character orders tea how we would do so now, and we learn that he orders it that way because otherwise the ship explodes.

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fidodo 27 points 3 years ago

But why would ordering it the other way make the ship explode?

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Blue_Morpho 19 points 3 years ago

Your confusion is justified because using the explanations given, it's not a good joke.

There was an earlier similar joke posted that made much more sense. In a different episode of Star Trek, Beverly tells the computer to define hot as 1.9million Kelvin. This was shown in a panel of the earlier joke. So the Picard Earl Gray Hot joke becomes when Beverly asks for Hot Tea, the computer generates 1.9M Kelvin temperature tea causing the Enterprise to explode.

Unless the joke is you already have to know that whenever Beverly says "hot", the Enterprise explodes. In which case it is a very good subtle joke.

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hamid 6 points 3 years ago

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fidodo 24 points 3 years ago

A better joke would be if there was some sort of double meaning that the other order of words had

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douglasg14b 21 points 3 years ago

Yeah but the subverted expectation actually has to make sense with some double meaning or unintended logical resul. If it doesn't then nothing was subverted and no such joke occurred.

That's what they're asking about.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 3 years ago

Hahaha I get jokes.

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kbal 27 points 3 years ago

Having seen the the first 639 episodes of Star Trek, I also don't get it.

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BradleyUffner 9 points 3 years ago

I'm imagining that the other way is the ship's secret self destruct command.

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SpaceCowboy 2 points 3 years ago

It's explained in a technical manual.

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FlyingSquid 13 points 3 years ago

Be very precise with the replicator.

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criitz 6 points 3 years ago

Captain Picard always orders tea from the computer this way (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.) The meme makes fun of why he might do that by imagining that saying it a more "natural" way is some kind of self-destruct cue.

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RampantParanoia2365 3 points 3 years ago

I've seen all of them, and I'd also like an explanation.

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JovialSodium 2 points 3 years ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iaAT6-dY1QI

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davidgro 15 points 3 years ago

Turns out the replicator is based on Stable Diffusion.

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tias 12 points 3 years ago

How about just "tea" and the computer figures out the rest

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samus12345 4 points 3 years ago

Yup, just tell it that whenever he asks for tea, he wants hot Earl Grey. Maybe he liked saying the whole thing every time.

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mac 4 points 3 years ago

Like a vocal alias

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stoicmaverick 2 points 3 years ago

I think it would just replicate the whole plant.

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Godnroc 2 points 3 years ago

I could see saving presets, but having the computer assume would be like when you search for something online and it returns a bunch of results that are ALMOST what you want.

Maybe if you just say "Tea" the most common result is a T-shirt or a T pipe. It feels a lot like adding "buy" to a search to clarify you want to purchase something instead of researching it.

Having the computer intuitively know what you want when you request something would require a perfect understanding of your mind and how it operates. Now do that for every single person who may use the device. Yikes!

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Daxter101 1 point 3 years ago

Lately, I have to add "Wikipedia" in order to research something, because otherwise Google throws seller ads and seo optimised totally-articles-and-not-ads my way.

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intensely_human 1 point 3 years ago

Jade Citrus Mint, coming right up

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SpaceCowboy 7 points 3 years ago

I've been perusing the technical schematics of the Enterprise and I noticed something odd.

There's no bathrooms.

When you think about it, the replicators need some kind of material to make food out of.

Put it together...

The tea earl grey is POOPIES!!!!

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Grail 0 points 3 years ago

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