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

92 points francisofascii 3 hours ago 25 comments

rsyring 3 hours 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 2 hours ago | parent

I put out 5(4) candles for him!

vunderba 2 hours 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 2 hours ago | parent

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

nekusar 3 hours 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 2 hours 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?

twoodfin 58 minutes ago | parent

Up the Long Ladder

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2 hours 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 1 hour 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 2 hours ago | parent

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

vunderba 1 hour 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 1 hour ago | parent

173467321476Charlie32789777643Tango732Victor73117888732476789764376Lock.

philodeon 1 hour ago | parent

Oh great, now Cloudflare needs to revoke an entire certificate authority…

goodmythical 1 hour ago | parent

Turned out the key was 0n3S3v3ntHr33f0UrS1xS3v3nThR33... and so we were fine until I typed this comment.

karim79 1 hour 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 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

Arainach 1 hour ago | parent

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.

latexr 1 minute ago | parent

> the aliens pretending to be dumb

Pretending? The Pakleds were genuinely dumb. If TNG’s episode left you with any doubts, watch Lower Decks and let them all be dispelled.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Pakled

joeguilmette 1 hour ago | parent

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

anonzzzies 1 hour ago | parent

I watched tng and voyager 100s of times, I never have known any episode names of either. I recognized all the screens though and can tell what season and if it’s early or late in the season.

dexterdog 30 minutes ago | parent

If you've watched it more than a dozen times and don't know Darmok, I don't know what to say.

joeguilmette 14 minutes ago | parent

i really love picard’s jacket that he wore in that episode. kinda weird it only showed up there and a small handful of cameos in others.

asciimov 1 hour ago | parent

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.

edoceo 58 minutes ago | parent

Eyes in the dark...one moon circles

temporallobe 26 minutes ago | parent

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?