Far more likely there is nothing in front of the ship and riker knows his ass is about to fire some consequence free lasers. He derives great pleasure from the reaction or lack of reaction of the crew on the bridge as he continues to chat about unrelated things
If you fire a weapon in space, someone is going to have a bad day. It just might be thousands or millions of years in the future, light-years away.
"Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!"
-Some Gunnery Sgt.
Reminds me of this video:
"Star Trek TNG - Will Riker Destroys the Enterprise-D"
I... I really hate to be that guy, but... "phasers".
That works until the first species joins Star Fleet that types with their butts.
There was a TNG episode that established that controls would only respond to authorized inputs, presumably from whatever limbs, organs, or phalanges any crewmember might typically use for such purposes.
The Asstralians: Everything about them is upside down.
Upside down and ass-backwards
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Now, if he took off his pants...that'd be a different story.
i’m sure if we have palm rejection worked out in tablets, ass cheek rejection is absolutely future table-screen tech
Unrelated anecdote:
Years ago I had a cheap Blackberry lookalike phone. It had a button lock feature to prevent butt dialing, but some bright spark decided that the lock wouldn't apply to the '9' and '1' keys, presumably so that a user could dial 9-1-1 even if too panicked to unlock the keypad. Which just meant that it was really easy to butt dial 9-1-1...
Had something similar, except that the code on the phone to dial 911 with the keys locked was #08. Keys were so sensitive I couldn't keep my phone in my pocket, had to live in my bag or it'd be dialling emergency services.
"Number one, asspedoes, FULL SPREAD"
Ass pedos? Geez
Sir! firing sequence has been interrupted by a CORN (Cessium Ordinance Radiating Nucleons) .... we're going to have to increase power to push this one out!!!
I hope the screen was locked
looks down at the screen
“YOU HAVE ENTERED YOUR PASSWORD INCORRECTLY TOO MANY TIMES. CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT.”
You have incorrectly entered your password too many times. This station is locked for 137 hours.
This incident will be reported
They use their asses for identification.
By sniffing them like dogs? That's hot
M'ress and T'ana might disagree.
One would hope that stupid fashion of touch screens on dangerous vehicles stops before the 24th century...
Naw. Actually he died in that one so... okay so don't hate me, but he must be in a time loop scenario here!
Were just going to ignore that Bryce Dallas Howard is just there, apparently immortal or something?
Actually, that's Patricia Tallman. I went to highschool with her son.
It was a joke dude. Dear lord
Don’t worry, the ship is into it.
It may be the Enterprise-D, but it's more into the A
Prodigy is a kids show but it still counts as canon, and there are a couple scenes of ass phasering going on.
My bum is on the console, my bum is on the console. Look at me my bum is on the console.
I'll be surprised if we don't have assprint unlock by then
“Today, Apple is announcing assID.”
They do have a product to place the sensor on.
As long as the controls are prehensile penis compatible it's all good.
