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I appreciate this. The full text search is fairly crucial, as while I've seen the entire series more than once I cannot for the life of me remember "the name of the episode where the aliens pretending to be dumb kidnap Geordi", but the search is good enough to get there without being too obvious.

i watched TNG through when it aired as a child, and then again probably every other year since. i dont know anyone IRL who has seen or consumed more TNG, or loved it more than i do

i couldnt get a single one right lol

Thanks for this! Back when TNG was on TV on the regular my wife would play a game with me, she’d flip over to TNG and pause the video, then I had to describe the episode well enough to match the guide description. I could usually get it as long as it wasn’t just a still of the Enterprise.

Most of these I can get in one or two guesses through key word search, I do not have all the episodes titles memorized.

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

At first I didn't understand that each picture is from the same episode - only managed to get it on the second to last try, but in retrospect I'd have gotten it a picture or two earlier with that information.

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 trekky, 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.

Edit: Trekkies->trekky

*SPOILER quote re today’s episodle*:

[episode’s protagonist]: Computer, begin new programme. Create as follows, workstation chair. (he sits in it) Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilising neural-scan interface. COMPUTER: There is no such device on file. [protagonist]: No problem. Here's how you build it.

(some period context: circa 1990, a neuralink interface was pretty much unconscionable)

The thing I shared with people was his appearance in Extras which is hilarious. It proves he can be comedic because he is just that good of an actor. RIP.

As a long time TNG fan, I know the episodes fairly well (noticable when I rewatch them, I notice new things every time), there's one thing I've never really paid attention to and that's the episode names. So I completely fail this game.

As a TNG fanatic since it first aired in ‘87 I’m surprised I didn’t get more right, but I got 60%. I missed the one about the alien race who developed the technology where you could step through a portal into another place in the galaxy (“Contagion”). I thought the race was the Iconians but it wasn’t in the episode description for some reason. Love the game! Can I ask how you made this so quickly?

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.

First attempt I didn't read the rules and didn't understand that the shots were all from the same episode.

After I got that I'm now at 34/34 with win guess avg of 2.68.

Shoutout for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(podca...

A goofy, often NSFW podcast by two hosts who really like Star Trek.

Was I just "unlucky", every episode had Lt Barkley. One of the more unremarkable characters IMHO.

Looking for Red Letter Media's Honoring of Sir Patrick Stewart myself.

Nice little "game". Appreciate the effort

The Inner Light still gets me every time. Lovely tribute, thanks for making this.

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"

He was also a lifelong socialist so if you happen to be the unlikely combination of an capitalist-bootlicker chud that for some reason also holds Sir Patrick Stewart in high regard (not a lot of overlap here, I know) you could do yourself a favor and read some Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels/Vladimir Lenin/Rosa Luxembourg/Upton Sinclair/John Steinbeck/Frantz Fanon/George Orwell/Noam Chomsky/Pyotr Kropotkin/Mao Zedong/Leon Trotsky/Oscar Wilde/Che Guevara/Thomas More/George Bernard Shaw/Ernest Hemingway/Emma Goldman/Bertrand Russel/Fidel Castro but we all know you're illiterate so that's not going to happen.

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!

Eyes in the dark...one moon circles

I wanna fall in love. But we never had a chance to meet that Jean Luc Picard because that was a character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKq7Aax-hI