Dustinia might have been an apt name after all. There is a streak of madness to its inhabitants.
Owen Smith
It’s a long way to for a drink, and very inconvenient when in space. If I were on board I’d have got bar bot out of there by now, or at least the parts of it requires for serving drinks.
Pitgamer
Okay – question for regular readers (and apologies to Chris for asking) – what the heck is that being on the “R” of Spacetrawler?
Marco
I suppose it’s the tracking devide left by the Stribs. Or some kind of space barnacle.
Pete Rogan
That… looks like a biped in a spacesuit. What it’s doing clinging to Spacetrawler baffles me. I can’t shake the impression I’ve seen this entity before somewhere else. Maybe I’m just confusing it with Humpty from “Safe Havens.”
Efogoto
It kinda looks like a gray starfish with a puffy red hat.
Christopher John Baldwin
I’m tempted not to chime in, just because I’m enjoying the answers. The intention is that it’s the “clampy thing” the stribs sent out. But i hear you all, that’s not being conveyed clearly. I’ll think of ways I can clarify it.
Muzhik
Just give it some extra arms with “clamps” on the end, ergo the name “Clampy”.
TB
That’s the Fiendish Thingie the Stribs stuck to the ship. I’m surprised Choan is leaving a robot to disarm it.
0z79
I only feel a tiny bit sorry for Barbot, if at all… they’ve brought this on themselves.
Pete Rogan
Ah. Thank you, Chris. You’ve saved my weekend.
And allowed me to turn to a disturbing feature of Galactic culture: When you can build robots to satisfy every sentient need, they swiftly become the targets of impatience, poorly-expressed desires, and general anxiety and anger generated out of nothing more than daily irritations. Paramount turned this idea into the entire series “Picard,” after playing with it in TNG and Voyager. Our expectations of tools only turn more savage the more humanlike they become. And Choan has just demonstrated the way you properly treat your robot slaves.
Except Dustin. She has no particular interest in watching Dustin.
The Eebs thought he was a laugh riot.
For a while, anyway.
Dustinia might have been an apt name after all. There is a streak of madness to its inhabitants.
It’s a long way to for a drink, and very inconvenient when in space. If I were on board I’d have got bar bot out of there by now, or at least the parts of it requires for serving drinks.
Okay – question for regular readers (and apologies to Chris for asking) – what the heck is that being on the “R” of Spacetrawler?
I suppose it’s the tracking devide left by the Stribs. Or some kind of space barnacle.
That… looks like a biped in a spacesuit. What it’s doing clinging to Spacetrawler baffles me. I can’t shake the impression I’ve seen this entity before somewhere else. Maybe I’m just confusing it with Humpty from “Safe Havens.”
It kinda looks like a gray starfish with a puffy red hat.
I’m tempted not to chime in, just because I’m enjoying the answers. The intention is that it’s the “clampy thing” the stribs sent out. But i hear you all, that’s not being conveyed clearly. I’ll think of ways I can clarify it.
Just give it some extra arms with “clamps” on the end, ergo the name “Clampy”.
That’s the Fiendish Thingie the Stribs stuck to the ship. I’m surprised Choan is leaving a robot to disarm it.
I only feel a tiny bit sorry for Barbot, if at all… they’ve brought this on themselves.
Ah. Thank you, Chris. You’ve saved my weekend.
And allowed me to turn to a disturbing feature of Galactic culture: When you can build robots to satisfy every sentient need, they swiftly become the targets of impatience, poorly-expressed desires, and general anxiety and anger generated out of nothing more than daily irritations. Paramount turned this idea into the entire series “Picard,” after playing with it in TNG and Voyager. Our expectations of tools only turn more savage the more humanlike they become. And Choan has just demonstrated the way you properly treat your robot slaves.
Disquieting.