Boimler did say Starfleet is always updating and improving them. Maybe that's why they changed on the D. Riker forced them to invent anti-console padding

Plus it’s a totally alpha move. BDE (big dilithium energy) move if I ever saw one.

Plus he's fucking tall.

I've seen it all, yet never seen that. wow.

Do you want explosion free screens, or screens you can sit on? You can't have it both ways.

Look, there's a reason you can wire almost any heavy machinery into any random console or wall panel... When you run this much power to every station, exploding panels are gonna happen.

It's either that, or we run our ships like Vulcans, and that's just boring.

That's what happens when your computer designers seem to have a microtape loose, and decide that connecting the multi-exawatt power system directly to all the powered systems is a good idea.

Prssumably the same people who build a malevolent AI that takes over the ship every few decades, or makes it so that starships explode if they bonk into anything hard enough.

I was at a party in a small apartment many years ago. I was leaning against the oven/range with my ass while hanging out in the kitchen. I managed to turn on one of the back burners high enough that it set a box of teabags on fire. We were so damn confused for a little bit.

And the designers of LCARS informed the cast that any button they pressed was the correct button, because the system was smart enough to present a custom smart interface that was intuitive to the crew member using it. Presumably, it’s also smart enough to recognize Riker’s ass.

And prescient com badges.

Edit: Im sure the com badges can also recognize Rikers ass.

When I was in university one of the things I did for the completion of my degree was to invent something. I made a door sensor that used cameras and intention detection to work out if the door needed to open or not.

Simply been near it wouldn't cause it to open, you actually had to be intentionally striding in the correct direction.

It never went anywhere because it's not actually useful technology and even in mass production would probably have cost 10x what a simple infrared sensor would have, it just always bugged me that automatic doors in businesses used to open just because someone was stood near them, and let the cold air in.

Riker's best day ever:

He fucked every one of the other Rikers. Every single one.

Even this guy.

Especially that guy.

I was thinking she looks like Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm pretty sure that is Patricia Tallman. She appeared on a number of Star Trek shows. She also played Lyta Alexander on Babylon5.