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Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

46 points francisofascii 1 hour ago 13 comments

rsyring 1 hour ago | parent

Thanks for doing something to honor him. I was bummed we didn't get a black bar for him today here on HN (I know he's not STEM but honorary STEM?).

The game might be too hard? I have watched A LOT of TNG and didn't make the first few guesses correctly and then bailed out.

nekusar 1 hour ago | parent

I put out 5(4) candles for him!

vunderba 32 minutes ago | parent

Love that episode. I remember immediately being reminded of balut [1] when Picarde eats the alien egg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)

Also:

https://imgpb.com/cardassian-firewall

charcircuit 47 minutes ago | parent

How would he be honorary STEM? Do you consider real life aircraft employees to also be STEM or honorary STEM.

nekusar 1 hour ago | parent

That's a dumb game.

I know the first one I got was the anachronistic Irish and the clones. No clue of the episode name.

I know it's 2nd season cause it's Pulaski as doctor. I liked her over Crusher. And she called the clones' bluff immediately!

system2 34 minutes ago | parent

Is it dumb because you don't know the names of the episodes? There are hardcore trekkies who can list all the episode names easily. Maybe this game is for them?

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 1 hour ago | parent

Is it cheating when you can search for a plot element you know from the episode but have no idea of the title? For example: The Big Goodbye. A newspaper suggests either the holodeck or time travel but you can merely enter "holodeck" and get a list of a dozen candidates. Sub Rosa and "grandmother"? Shame you can't search for "vasquez rocks"

francisofascii 29 minutes ago | parent

No, not cheating. You are playing the way it was intended. Maybe we need a hard mode to turn off the plots.

mijowi 35 minutes ago | parent

Maybe I’m not enough of a Trekkie, but I feel multiple choice would be good here.

vunderba 27 minutes ago | parent

TNG is one of my favorite shows of all time, and I can't answer most of these. I feel like I've watched the entire show at least a couple of times all the way through, but I definitely don't pay attention to the individual episode titles.

This is one step away from: "In season 4, episode 3, what was the exact code Data used to lock out the Enterprise?"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rERApU26PcA

twoodfin 23 minutes ago | parent

173467321476Charlie32789777643Tango732Victor73117888732476789764376Lock.

karim79 7 minutes ago | parent

It's great just a bit toooo hard.

But it's for trekkies so I'm not going to judge, I like Star Trek but I can't say that I'm anywhere as close to being a hardcore trekkies, I'm still learning and getting into it.

I'm happy to see work like this and I'm also curious as to how you got all the screenshot content. Was that through scraping or ffmpeg going through video content or what? I'm deeply curious.

Additionally, I think there (might) be a decent vibe-coded game about the game Oblivion and the intro sequence where Patrick Stewart plays the Emperor Uriel.

His presence in Oblivion was far too short.

We can perhaps honour him by extending the initial sequences of the game, with a game. Idea, methinks.