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Sensor bar for the bridge’s Wii. The audience only sees the lights because cameras can pick up infrared. Data finds them amusing, and Geordi just filters them out; the rest of the crew can’t see them.

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How good do you think Kirk is at Wii Sports Bowling?

Do you think he gets practice in the bowling alley?

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14 points

Shot in the dark answer: probably not very (which frustrates him) so he cheats. Spock is annoyed because he wanted to play tennis.

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7 points

Scotty in engineering messing with the gravity controls every time Kirk goes for a night of bowling.

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How good do you think Kirk is at Wii Sports Bowling?

Probably not very, seeing as he gets a heart attack after walking from one end of the table to the other.

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9 points

It’s begun already!!

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14 points

Ever use candles for the sensor bar? That’s a fun trick.

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Lol, can’t say I have. But I did eventually learn that the sensor bars are just dumb IR lights that the remotes track rather than something more complex, so I can see how it would work.

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This reminds me of Duck Hunt. Basically you’re not shooting anything from the “gun”. Instead, for a brief moment, the screen turns black and the ducks turn into white blocks. The gun will then register if you’re pointing it at a white block or not and register it as a hit. This was specifically attuned to the refresh rates of CRTs, and consequently will not work with newer LED/LCD TVs.

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12 points

I was thinking Cylon Centurion, but I like KITT better.

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8 points

Either way, they both have it too!

What is going on here?!

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5 points

Star Trek is part of the Glen A. Larson-verse confirmed.

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4 points

I always assumed that William Daniels was somehow responsible for the attack on the 12 colonies.

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5 points

“Engage”

As you command

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32 points

Those are light nodes for off hours dance parties. So, of course they’re more important than the view finder doohicky.

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They’re in the Phoenix cockpit, too.

They’re waymarkers. They tell you at a glance if the ship is going forward, reversing, or turning - and at what speed. However, their on-screen use throughout Trek history has been either inconsistent or completely overlooked by the FX department.

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Those are boopers.

Aka monitor monitors.

They boop when your monitors are happy.

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