Some carelessness by the artist. The stove has 5 burners, and 4 controls.
Torn
Nah, that’s just how quality of design goes for appliances these days.
maileguy
Three of them make a hidden Mickey, which only needs two controls.
Herandar
Often the fifth burner is just a warmer, which is binary and doesn’t require a knob, just a on/off button.
Scott
The back center burner is typically a “Warming zone” which is operated with an on/off switch rather than a knob.
Coyoty
But where is the oven control? How does it bake or broil?
We are assuming it’s an Earth stove. We shouldn’t expect it to work like one. Likely someone from off-Earth decided to make a knockoff of Earth stoves and didn’t get all the details right.
Gregg Eshelman
It’s like the ordinary Earth style salt shakers in the original Star Trek episode with the salt vampire. They tried all kinds of weird shakers then went with the ordinary one so the viewers would instantly recognize it.
Chris could have drawn some weird alien looking stove but we wouldn’t recognize it as such without one of the characters *telling us* “This is a stove.”
Instead we see the stove and wonder “What are they doing at Home Depot?” because we can recognize it is a stove before we read pilot telling us she travels with “this stove”.
PeterK
And yet… she like books?
RedPine
Okaaayyy…. now I feel like a dumb jerk for thinking that mouth looked really stupid.
Meran
I thought so too! But now we see the real purpose. I’ve wondered for a long time about that design ????
Is she descended from dragons?? ???????? If so, does she have rudimentary wings or stubs or …. jk
TB
They have to put her in a special shielded room when she gets a cold and starts sneezing.
Peter Rogan
That’s…. some parlor trick. Could be amusing at the right parties.
Now I dread the time when Pilot will have to slag someone, likely as not to save the Galaxy as keep her species’s secret. Because ow.
Jeff K!
Why, Mr. Chekhov, thank you so much for the beautiful gun!
It will look so lovely hanging over my mantlepiece!
Strain Of Thought
So what is actually happening in the image? Is the stove being superheated to the point that it instantly liquefies? Or is it some kind of other, stranger, liquefying reaction? Is it being disintegrated in the same way blasters set to kill disintegrate people? The amount of mess on the floor seems too small to account for the whole stove being melted, and if the glow from Pilot is actually a fire hot enough to melt the stove that completely, I feel like Devyat would have been horribly burned just by proximity and being splattered with molten metal.
reader
Wait, so pilot travels with this stove just to superheat it?
I don’t get it.
Also wouldn’t some books make him Angry? Dune Prequels come to mind.
I hope I don’t know what she didn’t say directly about her dear friend.
She doesn’t travel with that stove anymore. Perhaps she travels with several stoves.
So…Pilot’s species has a built-in meltagun in their mouths?
You know when I asked you to whisper sweet nothings into my ear? I’ll be fine without that now, thanks.
She didn’t have an omelet.
24 hours later I realize the description already said that
Hee hee 🙂
Some carelessness by the artist. The stove has 5 burners, and 4 controls.
Nah, that’s just how quality of design goes for appliances these days.
Three of them make a hidden Mickey, which only needs two controls.
Often the fifth burner is just a warmer, which is binary and doesn’t require a knob, just a on/off button.
The back center burner is typically a “Warming zone” which is operated with an on/off switch rather than a knob.
But where is the oven control? How does it bake or broil?
We are assuming it’s an Earth stove. We shouldn’t expect it to work like one. Likely someone from off-Earth decided to make a knockoff of Earth stoves and didn’t get all the details right.
It’s like the ordinary Earth style salt shakers in the original Star Trek episode with the salt vampire. They tried all kinds of weird shakers then went with the ordinary one so the viewers would instantly recognize it.
Chris could have drawn some weird alien looking stove but we wouldn’t recognize it as such without one of the characters *telling us* “This is a stove.”
Instead we see the stove and wonder “What are they doing at Home Depot?” because we can recognize it is a stove before we read pilot telling us she travels with “this stove”.
And yet… she like books?
Okaaayyy…. now I feel like a dumb jerk for thinking that mouth looked really stupid.
I thought so too! But now we see the real purpose. I’ve wondered for a long time about that design ????
Is she descended from dragons?? ???????? If so, does she have rudimentary wings or stubs or …. jk
They have to put her in a special shielded room when she gets a cold and starts sneezing.
That’s…. some parlor trick. Could be amusing at the right parties.
Now I dread the time when Pilot will have to slag someone, likely as not to save the Galaxy as keep her species’s secret. Because ow.
Why, Mr. Chekhov, thank you so much for the beautiful gun!
It will look so lovely hanging over my mantlepiece!
So what is actually happening in the image? Is the stove being superheated to the point that it instantly liquefies? Or is it some kind of other, stranger, liquefying reaction? Is it being disintegrated in the same way blasters set to kill disintegrate people? The amount of mess on the floor seems too small to account for the whole stove being melted, and if the glow from Pilot is actually a fire hot enough to melt the stove that completely, I feel like Devyat would have been horribly burned just by proximity and being splattered with molten metal.
Wait, so pilot travels with this stove just to superheat it?
I don’t get it.
Also wouldn’t some books make him Angry? Dune Prequels come to mind.
“SHE” rarely if ever has chosen to melt it. In this case she must have felt it important enough to make her point. 🙂
I love the way her tail stuck straight up while she shot plasma out of her face cone. Huh, so that explains the cone.