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February 18, 2013

A Pill for Instant Sobriety?
— Ace

I can't believe it, but there's a lot of things I don't believe that are true.

Party animals could soon be able to sober up in an instant just by popping a pill.
Researchers have developed a cocktail of alcohol metabolizing enzymes that speedily reduces blood alcohol levels in drunk mice.
The treatment, which has been compared to having 'millions of liver cells inside your stomach,' could have far-reaching implications for drinkers.

I always thought it was stupid that the "synthol" served in the Ten-Forward ended its inebriatory effects the moment the drinker willed those effects to end.

And yet, here again is some Star Trek "science" I thought was jackass-stupid which seems to be at least possibly achievable.

I still don't like the show, though. They killed Tasha Yar.*

* This is a joke. I also didn't like Tasha Yar. I just pretty much dislike everyone on ST:TNG, or any ST show.

Except TOS, of course. They had Whimsical Endings there, when they would freeze-frame on Kirk and McCoy laughing at Spock.

Posted by: Ace at 01:57 PM | Comments (196)
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1 They need a spokesperson to raise awareness of it. I recommend Lindsay Lohan, since she'll be available cheap.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 18, 2013 01:58 PM (e0xKF)

2 You still have me.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 18, 2013 01:58 PM (PrDJQ)

3 I could have used this.

Posted by: Mel at February 18, 2013 01:59 PM (VMcEw)

4 Tasha Yar fucked Data.DATA,the fucking android.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:00 PM (9XBK2)

5 Ten Forward? Tasha Yar? No idea. I'm so far out of it.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 18, 2013 02:00 PM (q+XGX)

6 4 Tasha Yar fucked Data.DATA,the fucking android. --- Earth women who experience sexual ecstasy with mechanical assistance always tend to feel guilty!

Posted by: Robot at February 18, 2013 02:01 PM (e0xKF)

7 I could have as well.

Posted by: Capt James T. "the girl I banged last night was blue? Really!?!" Kirk at February 18, 2013 02:01 PM (PrDJQ)

8 Ah, too bad I didn't have it when that one little lady was with me...what was her name...oh I forgot

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at February 18, 2013 02:01 PM (F6KtL)

9 Besides didn't Denise Crosby decide to leave the show on her own?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:01 PM (9XBK2)

10 Tasha Yar fucked Data.DATA,the fucking android.

Screw you. I was out of batteries.

Posted by: Tasha Yar at February 18, 2013 02:02 PM (SY2Kh)

11 Tasha Yar? Was that the short haired blond who was also in Pet Cemetery? That movie ruined my dreams for 5 years. The disabled/diseased sister was pure nightmare film. I still won't watch it, and I'm a grown ass man.

Posted by: Xander Crews at February 18, 2013 02:02 PM (NPqnO)

12 5 Dude,don't you know by now this blog is populated with nerds?

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:02 PM (9XBK2)

Why the hell would I want to sober up?

*brbb*

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at February 18, 2013 02:03 PM (qLeRe)

14 So what you are saying is that we have an instant cure for beer goggles.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 18, 2013 02:03 PM (/E+6J)

15 11 Yeah,the book is scarier.Spinal Meningitis.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:03 PM (9XBK2)

16 Tasha Yar fucked Data.DATA,the fucking android.

She actually looked halfway attractive in her "Fuck me, robot" outfit.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 18, 2013 02:03 PM (w/OzD)

17 Can they develop a common sense pill for DC?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:04 PM (X8n03)

18 At least Tasha never went with an ewok. Cause that'd be just sick.

Or,

She seemed to have enough data to go on.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 18, 2013 02:04 PM (PrDJQ)

OMG, Weather dot com says breaking news: new winter storm NAMED.

Feel the excitement.

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 18, 2013 02:04 PM (SUKHu)

20 Star Trek Voyager was the most realistic of them all. You could tell, because in the very first episode they let a woman drive, immediately breaking the ship and getting lost.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 18, 2013 02:05 PM (SY2Kh)

21 Data was a lesbian?

Posted by: No Feet Johnson at February 18, 2013 02:05 PM (KHo8t)

22 Shatner kicked ass and screwed his way across the galaxy. All other StarTrek spinoffs were sans testicles. Even the character Worf was a pussy.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at February 18, 2013 02:05 PM (JKNDp)

23 They killed Tasha Yar.

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:05 PM (WOEWa)

24 A pill to instantly sober up? Well there goes most teenage sex

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2013 02:05 PM (jE38p)

25 Tasha Yar had a pretty good rack.

http://www.all-nude-celebs.us/mrskin6/denise-crosby/topcelebs.html

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:06 PM (9XBK2)

26 Star Trek Voyager was the most realistic of them all. You could tell, because in the very first episode they let a woman drive, immediately breaking the ship and getting lost.

Posted by: Hollowpoint

***

And even when given directions they couldn't get back home.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 18, 2013 02:06 PM (uhftQ)

27 When you run out of Kenny, all you have left is Tasha Yar.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:06 PM (X8n03)

28 Shatner kicked ass and screwed his way across the galaxy.

Does that make him a......gorn star?

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 18, 2013 02:06 PM (PrDJQ)

29 They killed Tasha Yar.

(oops)

Didn't she become like some sort of Romulan sex slave due to the screwed up timeline from Enterprise B?

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:07 PM (WOEWa)

30 Smoking two or three rocks of meth will also sober you up but you might wind up having sex with a farm animal. But that's being high, not drunk. So same thing as that pill thing. Pretty much.

Posted by: Leo Tard at February 18, 2013 02:07 PM (R18D0)

31 Is anyone else thinking we're going to see alcoholism just rise to insane levels with that pill?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 18, 2013 02:07 PM (uhftQ)

32 I thought my point was profound enough to re-post.

The Left has successfully established that it is a woman's 'Right' to go kill her baby if she wants to.

How do we combat that?

It is becoming an even bigger loser in every election cycle.

Posted by: wheatie at February 18, 2013 06:02 PM (DZbQ0)

The Left has successfully established that unending deficit spending won't result in any bad consequences. The two issues share this in common.

If you can't beat them on the Social issues, you won't be able to beat them on the economic issues either. They will just swivel their guns from the social issues, (once those are defeated) and start training them on the fiscal issues.

Bottom line, if we can't beat them on the airwaves, we can't beat them at all. (At least politically.)

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at February 18, 2013 02:07 PM (bb5+k)

33 Kirk would have shagged a fem-bot so hard, it would have detonated. And Kirk would still be there looking very happy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:07 PM (X8n03)

34 Damn formatting.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at February 18, 2013 02:08 PM (bb5+k)

35 How speedily? I think sudden sobriety might cause severe depression.

Posted by: I chase him - I bite him at February 18, 2013 02:08 PM (6J6x7)

36 So many letters... My head is spinning. But I'm just nerdy enough to figure it all out. Makes me want to dig out my many sided dice...

Posted by: dfbaskwill at February 18, 2013 02:08 PM (ndlFj)

37 29 They gave her a heroic death in an alternate timeline.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:08 PM (9XBK2)

38 SSS = Sudden Sobriety Syndrome. I called it first!

Posted by: I chase him - I bite him at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (6J6x7)

39 Didn't she become like some sort of Romulan sex slave due to the screwed up timeline from Enterprise B?

Posted by: chemjeff

***

Yup. The tar monster kiled her and then the Ronulan thing/timeline wedgie came along. The evil Tasha was really her half Romulan daughter.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (uhftQ)

40 I thought my point was profound enough to re-post.

The Left has successfully established that it is a woman's 'Right' to go kill her baby if she wants to.

How do we combat that?

Wait for fire and brimstone. Whoever looks back can be used to brine meat.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (SY2Kh)

41 Chemjeff. Enterprise-C in Yesterday's Enterprise. The blond Romulan commander was Yar's daughter.

*gyah* I should use a phaser on myself for knowing that. And no not one of the TNG Braun mix-master phasers, a TOS phaser pistol because it looks like a gun!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (X8n03)

42 I feel like the author JD Robb has a time machine too because so much of the stuff in her futuristic mysteries keeps coming true

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (RZ8pf)

43 Can they develop a common sense pill for DC?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yes, but all of them develop severe reactions to it. Explosive stupidity, intermittent lying, chronic cravenness...

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (Ipj15)

44 30 Smoking two or three rocks of meth will also sober you up but you might wind up having sex with a farm animal.

awesome

Posted by: horse sex guy at February 18, 2013 02:09 PM (WOEWa)

Bar owners everywhere are jumping up and down in hopes this is true.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 18, 2013 02:10 PM (1Y+hH)

>>Didn't she become like some sort of Romulan sex slave due to the screwed up timeline from Enterprise B?

That was supposed to be her daughter, wasn't it?

I mean, uh, I don't know what you're talking about with your Sy Fe Fi Fum talk.

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 18, 2013 02:10 PM (SUKHu)

Didn't she become like some sort of Romulan sex slave due to the screwed up timeline from Enterprise B?

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 06:07 PM (WOEWa)

You say that like its a BAD thing...

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 18, 2013 02:10 PM (lZBBB)

48 41 And you can use it set on stun,because at point blank range even that setting is deadly.When you are done,I'll use it.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:10 PM (9XBK2)

49 I'm sure there's no possible way this could be abused in drunk driving instances...right?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 18, 2013 02:10 PM (GEICT)

50 Also according to that movie flight a snortful of cocaine will also sober someone straight up

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (RZ8pf)

51 This will put the Rally in "Boot 'n' Rally"

Posted by: Bill from Chappaqua at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (0SXI6)

52 Steevy been watching Star Trek VI: Undiscovered CSI.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (X8n03)

53 OT but, could it be... Is it possible.... There's no way... Did Geraldo just tweet something that made about half a lick of sense? Chicago&New Orleans Detroit Tenton&Newark need Stop&Frisk no gun violence-no more ignoring the reality-gun control requires criminal control

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (piMMO)

54 I doubt it would approved for over the counter sale, assuming it ever gets developed.

Would be nice though- go out drinking, get plastered, pop a couple pills and then drive home sober.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (SY2Kh)

55 She is Bing Crosby's granddaughter right?Pretty willing to show her tittehs.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (9XBK2)

56 Yeah I knew that evil Romunlan Tasha was actually Tasha Yar's daughter, I'm just forgetting the circumstances. I thought it was because Tasha Yar got captured in the screwed-up timeline and then was passed around the Romulan soldiers like Sandra Fluke during Fleet Week

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (WOEWa)

Posted by: Guy in Texas at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (AcmH4)

>>I'm sure there's no possible way this could be abused in drunk driving instances...right?

Therefore, everyone will automatically be guilty if stopped by the police.

Posted by: MADD at February 18, 2013 02:12 PM (SUKHu)

59 52 I remember them mentioning that in some episode or movie.Don't remember which.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:13 PM (9XBK2)

60 Totally real. When I was in college for chem eng a few years ago, my teacher was telling me about one of his friends working on something like this. They were having problems getting a pill form to make it through the stomach (pH was killing the enzyme), but had it workable in shot form.

Posted by: specialkayel at February 18, 2013 02:13 PM (p/5HF)

61 It appears that Ace could put up an empty box as a post and the moron hordes would immediately append 500 comments.

Worse, most would read all five hundred then add another two fifty.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 18, 2013 02:14 PM (q0fVD)

62 Your Agonizer Mr. S. Recluse.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:14 PM (X8n03)

63 yar was not all that, her sister was effin hot yar - not so much.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:14 PM (Z9EHQ)

64 They had Whimsical Endings there, when they would freeze-frame on Kirk and McCoy laughing at Spock. You're thinking of BOB NEWHART.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:14 PM (ZI4xD)

65 Spock deserved to be dick slapped. He was a pointy-eared Herbert.

Posted by: Fritz at February 18, 2013 02:15 PM (WM+rJ)

66 Hated Tasha Yar, but she was key to Yesterday's Enterprise - the best episode of STTNG and one of the best of any Star Trek series ever. And, yes, I know that one also keyed off of Whoopi Goldberg, but she was good in that one. Jesus Marimba, I can't believe I just praised Whoopi Goldberg on this site. OK, you can take away my posting privileges...

Posted by: Guy in Texas at February 18, 2013 02:15 PM (AcmH4)

>>Steevy been watching Star Trek VI: Undiscovered CSI.

I'm picturing Kirk taking off his sunglasses like Horatio Cane...

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 18, 2013 02:15 PM (SUKHu)

68 The bad news is that this discovery of alcohol breakdown in mice comes as we get word that mice may not be good medical analogues for humans. (via smalldeadanimals)

Posted by: JSchuler at February 18, 2013 02:16 PM (SmZQt)

69 Guy you forgot Jean Luc actually trusting his instincts in that one.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:16 PM (X8n03)

70 Sigh, I can never get this thing to work right...

http://tinyurl.com/b59ss37

Posted by: JSchuler at February 18, 2013 02:16 PM (SmZQt)

71 66 That is a really good episode(or episodes,was it multi part?)I like the other one where they go the future and the Enterprise has "Mega-phasers".Awesome,slices up ships with one shot.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:17 PM (9XBK2)

72 I also liked Yesterday's Enterprise.

The two Borg episodes were also quite good.

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:17 PM (WOEWa)

73 Kirok would beat Horatio Cane like an Orion slave girl.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:17 PM (X8n03)

74 I'll bet my leftnut that this is super toxic to the liver, though.

Posted by: soothsayer at February 18, 2013 02:17 PM (ZI4xD)

Data was a lesbian?

Naw, just the future's most advanced dildo.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 18, 2013 02:17 PM (+z4pE)

76 For the record, there was only one freeze frame ending in all of TOS, and it didn't feature anyone laughing.

Loose shit. Loose. Shit.

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge at February 18, 2013 02:18 PM (Ys6PL)

77 Oh, another good one was the one with the fractured multiverse and all of the different USS Enterprises appearing at the same time. Forget the name of that one though.

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:18 PM (WOEWa)

78
the "synthol" served in the Ten-Forward

Crap, I don't know this cultural reference.

*drinks to try to remember*

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 18, 2013 02:18 PM (p/cQy)

79 Corbomite Maneuver Blalok anyone?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:18 PM (X8n03)

80 Mice and humans. In my sock.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 18, 2013 02:19 PM (ORGYc)

81 Links for the Google-challenged:

http://tinyurl.com/a2zc836

http://tinyurl.com/anztssj

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge at February 18, 2013 02:19 PM (Ys6PL)

82 69 In that reality with the Federation getting wiped out,he is a tough warship commander.Enterprise is a Battleship not a fucking daycare center with nightclub!

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:19 PM (9XBK2)

83 FYI the phrase "resistance is futile" was ripped off from the very last episode of SPACE: 1999

Posted by: soothsayer at February 18, 2013 02:19 PM (ZI4xD)

They've been working on a 'Sobriety Pill' for quite a while.

I first heard of it about 15 years ago.

I'm trying to remember what the problem has been with it...some bad side effect.

Posted by: wheatie at February 18, 2013 02:20 PM (DZbQ0)

"Hated Tasha Yar, but she was key to Yesterday's Enterprise - the best episode of STTNG and one of the best of any Star Trek series ever."

Agreed.

"Let's make sure history never forgets... the name... 'Enterprise'. Picard out."

Posted by: Jaws at February 18, 2013 02:20 PM (4I3Uo)

86 A VOIP USB that resembles a TOS communicator
http://www.clickshop.com/product/3375/star-trek-usb-communicator/starusb/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:20 PM (X8n03)

87 some bad side effect.

Aside from sobriety?

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 18, 2013 02:20 PM (w/OzD)

88 That chunky chick in the lab coat was looking pretty hot until they started shoving those pills down our throats.

Posted by: The mice at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (R18D0)

89 Mice and humans. In my sock. Posted by: andycanuck at February 18, 2013 not to be confused with gerbils and humans which are not in your sock

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (Z9EHQ)

90 >>>The two Borg episodes were also quite good.

I remember being pretty damned "alarmed" (read : SKEERED) after the end of the episode when Picard said something like " Now they know we are here (earth), and will coming for us."

Scarred the crap out of me, and watched this show since the late sixties when it came out.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (4Mv1T)

91 I'm trying to remember what the problem has been with it...some bad side effect. **** Yes. Sobering up before your "date" leaves you apartment.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (piMMO)

92 I remember tuning in to one of the spin-off series and seeing Whoopie Goldberg. Never watched that shit again.

Posted by: Fritz at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (WM+rJ)

93 83 That show is like Jekkyl and Hyde,2 seasons with the second one being completely different.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (9XBK2)

94 How is it even possible to hate 'Q'?

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2013 02:21 PM (/tFdx)

95
I'm trying to remember what the problem has been with it...some bad side effect.

It makes everything look like Barney Frank's ass.

Posted by: Reality Check Bounced at February 18, 2013 02:22 PM (NFVkx)

96 Season 2 of Space 1999. First to do the Seven of Nine trick. They got rid of the old science guy and replaced him with Maya the red-headed shapely shape-shifter.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:22 PM (X8n03)

97 92 Yeah,she was on DS9 too.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:22 PM (9XBK2)

98 Dave in Garfield, remember the closing credits they used the freeze frame of that creepy fake alien from the episode with CLINT HOWARD?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:23 PM (ZI4xD)

99 The entire male crew and half the women liked Tasha Yar IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:23 PM (+I8Mq)

100 "some bad side effect"

Like sobering up with a dick in your mouth?

Posted by: That guy who once blew another guy after a Wham! concert. at February 18, 2013 02:23 PM (R18D0)

101 Maybe Ace is just overcompensating for his mancrush on Wil Wheaton?

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2013 02:23 PM (/tFdx)

102 Bad side effect - sobering up thinking you are Michelle Obama.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:24 PM (X8n03)

103 Now can they work on a pill to cure douchebaggery? Mr. Baldwin can fund the research with the money from the civil suits against him....

Posted by: tcn at February 18, 2013 02:24 PM (VLG62)

104 Maybe Ace is just overcompensating for his mancrush on Wil Wheaton? Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2013 yar probably has more testosterone than wil.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:24 PM (Z9EHQ)

105 Pretty sure that Tasha was a switch hitter.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2013 02:25 PM (/tFdx)

106 How is it even possible to hate 'Q'?

****

Because he was "Cornball" Continuum Brother

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:25 PM (+I8Mq)

107 79 Corbomite Maneuver Blalok anyone? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 06:18 PM (X8n03) Did someone say Blalock? http://www.wallpapervortex.com/wallpaper-2921-celebrity_jolene_blalock_wallpaper.html

Posted by: alex at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (44kMb)

108 Tasha Yar vs Number One. My Quatloos would be on Number One.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (X8n03)

109 Space: 1999 - So much cool and so much fail slammed together in one little show. No wonder they were ejected from Earth orbit by a massive thermonuclear blast.

Posted by: Jaws at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (4I3Uo)

110 the old science guy, as Anna puts it, was BARRY MORSE, the only legitimate actor on the set

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (ZI4xD)

111 Pretty sure that Tasha was a switch hitter. Posted by: garrett at February I always thought of her as more of a team player.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (Z9EHQ)

112 One of the most laughable episodes was when they discovered some rogue Starfleet officers building a phased-cloaking device and Picard was all" but we have a treaty with the Romulans we wont use cloaking devices!"When they introduced Defiant on DS9 they had a Romulan officer on board to work the cloaking device.So fucking gay.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (9XBK2)

113 I stopped watching Star Trek after they replaced Brian Dennehy with Patrick Stewart.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (SY2Kh)

114 99 The entire male crew and half the women liked Tasha Yar IYKWIMAITYD

Hell, I once found her trying to hump a replicator because she thought the computer voice was sexy

Posted by: Lt. Red Shirt, USS Enterprise D at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (WOEWa)

115 Heretic! :-P Later.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at February 18, 2013 02:26 PM (O8sZf)

116 TASHA had SEX with the ROBOT

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:27 PM (ZI4xD)

117 You still have me.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 18, 2013 05:58 PM (PrDJQ)

Saw you in Eureka. WTF happened to you?

Posted by: Invictus at February 18, 2013 02:27 PM (OQpzc)

118 Pretty sure that Tasha was a switch hitter.

***

There's the episode where Troi goes into heat and screws everybody and Tasha was in her bunk too.

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:27 PM (+I8Mq)

119 Crap. I thought the headline said "Pill for Instant Sorority."

That would be hot. Totally hot.

Posted by: Dang at February 18, 2013 02:28 PM (R18D0)

120 Hell, I once found her trying to hump a replicator because she thought the computer voice was sexy Posted by: Lt. Red Shirt, USS Enterprise she was sent to the brig for a week for using the replicator to make a camelback of "protein shakes"

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:28 PM (Z9EHQ)

121 99 The entire male crew and half the women liked Tasha Yar IYKWIMAITYD

Taking into account the ease of seduction, the longevity of the coital event, and the lack of any necessity to cuddle afterwards, on a scale of 1 to 10, I rate Lt. Tasha Yar as a precise 8.387.

Posted by: Data at February 18, 2013 02:28 PM (WOEWa)

122 That sobriety pill would be great for me. I could take one in the morning before I drove to work, and then another one before I drove home.

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at February 18, 2013 02:28 PM (MSrqi)

123 But it's the Wesley Crushers! Not the Wesley Crushers.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 18, 2013 02:29 PM (ORGYc)

124 ....replaced Brian Dennehy with Patrick Stewart.

***

Nobody could say "Engage" and "Number One, you're with me." like Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (+I8Mq)

125

116...TASHA had SEX with the ROBOT

I still think that was a funny scene...when Data said, "Fully functional!"

Posted by: wheatie at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (DZbQ0)

126 Not even 7 of 9? Resistance is nubile!

Posted by: Hoss at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (Gk/35)

127 If I am instantly sober, the 5 I thought was a 9 would turn into a 5 again.

Uhmmmm.....

No thanks.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (HDgX3)

128 The only good looking chick in TNG was that one with the wild earing. Bajoran chick?

Posted by: Invictus at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (OQpzc)

129 124 No,no,Brian Dennehy played the Enterprise-D .

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:30 PM (9XBK2)

130 but what about a cure for WHISKEY DICK?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:31 PM (ZI4xD)

131 Some people need Tau Ceti eels.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:31 PM (X8n03)

132 128 That was DS9 which had the hotter Terry Farrel.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:31 PM (9XBK2)

133 128 No, there was the Trill, Terry Farrell. Sven posted naked pictures of her yesterday...

YOWZA!!!

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:32 PM (+I8Mq)

134 I met a friend of a friend in Denver more than a decade ago that supposedly done this. He'd even handed out a few to people I knew and those folks claimed they worked. The down side was really bad breath.

Posted by: bestie71 at February 18, 2013 02:33 PM (45N4D)

135 Or was that steevy?

Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 18, 2013 02:33 PM (+I8Mq)

136 I stopped watching Star Trek after they replaced Brian Dennehy with Patrick Stewart.
Posted by: Hollowpoint

They actually brought Brian Dennehy back to play the part of "Capt. Picard's Swivel Chair" for the last two seasons due to a clause in Patrick Stewart's contract.

Posted by: Dang at February 18, 2013 02:33 PM (R18D0)

137 Back in 1997 I had to take DWI classes and the instructor claimed that such a pill already existed. It sounded like bullshit to me so I took it with a grain of salt. It was strange -- the teacher seemed to pull the topic out of thin air announce it to the class. I don't know why. Maybe to see what the looks in people's faces would be? Anyways, he then said the substance would never, ever allowed to be used under any circumstances. And it never would be because the ramifications on society. He told us to imagine a world where people could drink freely and then just pop a pill and be sober. I sat there wondering why he suddenly went off topic telling me some crazy ass sounding story. This story is a bit more plausible. Something like what they describe could help lots of people.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 18, 2013 02:34 PM (tOkJB)

138 I appreciated that they brought in Whoopi Goldberg to play the ship's bartender as an homage to Ted Lange's role in Love Boat.

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at February 18, 2013 02:35 PM (MSrqi)

139 how is there a downside to allowing everyone to sober up instantly?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:35 PM (Z9EHQ)

140 replaced Brian Dennehy with Patrick Stewart.

That's okay, Brian Dennehy came back later to play the Borg

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:35 PM (WOEWa)

141 128 That was DS9 which had the hotter Terry Farrel.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 06:31 PM (9XBK2)

Different. I found her. Ensign Ro Laren played by Michelle Forbes.

Posted by: Invictus at February 18, 2013 02:35 PM (OQpzc)

142 LEETA was the hot one on DS9 she married the Ferengi

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:36 PM (ZI4xD)

143 Sobriety is overrated, especially from January 20 2009 through January 20 2017

Posted by: CAC at February 18, 2013 02:37 PM (JH/Ra)

144
...That's okay, Brian Dennehy came back later to play the Borg ship.

Fixed it.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 18, 2013 02:37 PM (4Mv1T)

145 The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!

Posted by: You, 20 years from now, unless the IPAB forbids it at February 18, 2013 02:38 PM (1c58W)

146 oh yeah, the Ro Laren character was another frisky slut

good thing Tasha Yar and Ro Laren didn't overlap, they'd just spend all their time scissoring

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:38 PM (WOEWa)

147 Ace,

Put up the CO Salazar story already. That Dem needs some time in front of the shit-cannons.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 18, 2013 02:38 PM (Ipj15)

148 "I thought you quit smoking." "I did. I only smoke when I drink." "But you drink all the time." "So I'll work on that next." AND...SCENE

Posted by: I Work for Dick Jones at February 18, 2013 02:39 PM (MSrqi)

149 RO LAREN went on to play ADMIRAL LESBO in Battlestar Galactica

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 18, 2013 02:39 PM (ZI4xD)

150 146 Forgot about her.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:39 PM (9XBK2)

151

"Spock deserved to be dick slapped. He was a pointy-eared Herbert."

Goin' to Eden brother...

Party mouse.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 18, 2013 02:41 PM (rLJaJ)

152 Ace with some good stuff over at The Conversation.There actually have been pistols(and rifles?) that had a loaded chamber indicator.A little pin that popped up,so even in the dark you could fee it if you couldn't see it.Frum is still a fucking fat retard though.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:41 PM (9XBK2)

153

Brothers in Kansas accidentally blow up house after celebrating lottery win by buying drugs, police say - @FoxNews

Anybody seen Raykon or Erg lately?

Posted by: Meremortal at February 18, 2013 02:41 PM (1Y+hH)

154 That pill will never work as well as blue lights in your rearview mirror.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 18, 2013 02:42 PM (+z4pE)

155 really it is better to simply have a plan for drinking regularly and building up your tolerance and foget all about some goofy pill.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:42 PM (Z9EHQ)

156 And it was ME who posted the Terry Farrel picture.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:42 PM (9XBK2)

157 I thought the headline said "Pill for Instant Sorority." That would be hot. Totally hot.

Or not.

Half the pill would be little Sea Monkey-sized freeze-dried sluts, and the other half would be the world's most violent laxative, because you'd have to shit all the girls out before they put on their "freshman 15" (decagrams) and start tearing through your bowels looking for lost belly rings and y'know that John Mayer CD with that one song? about how like girls are awesome? on it.

...

Posted by: oblig. is retiring now at February 18, 2013 02:42 PM (cePv8)

158 Iirc Spock's fiance was damn hot. Too bad she was a souless bitch.

Posted by: Invictus at February 18, 2013 02:43 PM (OQpzc)

159 The treatment, which has been compared to having 'millions of liver cells inside your stomach Would that offset the effects of a nice Chianti?

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at February 18, 2013 02:43 PM (MSrqi)

160 153 Erg actually was here today.Hopefully that was before the explosion.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:43 PM (9XBK2)

161 Cure for intoxication. Still none for stupid.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersands Anonymous at February 18, 2013 02:44 PM (mbxHg)

162 imho, biggest problem with TNG was that the eliminated the Red Shirt Rule.

The only reason I tuned in was hoping that they would off Red Shirt Pickard and Ricker and that the psychobabble chick would get caught in the cross fire

Posted by: Mark E at February 18, 2013 02:44 PM (wDyd0)

163 The treatment, which has been compared to having 'millions of liver cells inside your stomach,' Do sperm cells have a similar effect?

Posted by: Rod Stewart at February 18, 2013 02:44 PM (MSrqi)

164 Anybody seen Raykon orErg lately?

huh, who knew that when we kept telling them to DIAF, that they actually paid attention

Posted by: chemjeff at February 18, 2013 02:44 PM (WOEWa)

165 Sounds like a recipe for acute alcohol poisoning without the fun and games to me. Pass.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 18, 2013 02:44 PM (7xPCu)

166 Remember, kids, when you're image-searching, it's Terry Farrell, not Perry Farrell.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 18, 2013 02:45 PM (w/OzD)

167 Spock's ex-fiancee was T'Pring.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:45 PM (X8n03)

168 Too bad she was a souless bitch.
That's what Ston 'loved' about her.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 18, 2013 02:45 PM (ORGYc)

169 Spock to Ston, "Wanting and having are two different things."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 18, 2013 02:47 PM (X8n03)

170 Prediction: More arms being gnawed off.

Posted by: Opus An Arcus at February 18, 2013 02:48 PM (9BmVT)

171 #6
"Earth women who experience sexual ecstasy with mechanical assistance always tend to feel guilty!"

Heavy Metal. Just thought I'd provide a little validation.

Posted by: West at February 18, 2013 02:48 PM (f9hrr)

172 Denise Crosby wanted to leave the show. She was frustrated that she had whole episodes with nothing to do, and only a single line of dialog ("Hailing frequencies open, sir"). She should have stuck it out. In the early days the TNG writers were trying to figure out what to do with everyone. Geordi was useless until they made him head of engineering... I remember in one episode Picard ordered Geordi to run to a window and look out, to use his VISOR thing to scan something. As if Geordi's VISOR is in any way better than the sensor suite onboard an exploration starship? Given Tasha Yar's background, they could have made her the "street smart" one. She should have been able to pickpocket, and she should have been good at "reading" crowds.

Posted by: mr_jack at February 18, 2013 02:49 PM (P0N+7)

173 Anybody browsed around the "Late Night Mistakes" site? Fun, sometimes nasty, but gets boring after about 20 pages. Reminds me of an out of control binge I had with a buddy in college involving a bottle of 100 proof Southern Comfort...he puked in his bed and got it in his hair, giving him what he called 'insta-dreds'.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 18, 2013 02:50 PM (7xPCu)

174 Posted by: oblig. is retiring now

I was seeing it as a pill that you throw in a swimming pool and *poof*, instant sorority. Hot. Sorority girls in my colon screaming "GROSS"... not as hot. But the more I think about it...

Posted by: Dang at February 18, 2013 02:50 PM (R18D0)

175 152 Steevy. We knew that. Next Frum is going to invent toilet paper.

Posted by: West at February 18, 2013 02:50 PM (f9hrr)

176 http://www.nudecelebgalls.com/pics/celeb575/terry-farrell-sexi-topcelebs.html

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:50 PM (9XBK2)

177 mr_jack at February 18, 2013 I always assumed gerodi spent his off duty hours in a gimp suit as data's slave.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 18, 2013 02:50 PM (Z9EHQ)

178 This pill will spawn a whole new level of practical jokes.

You're at the bar, feeling a good buzz. You pick up a cutie and take her home. Just as you are about to make the moves on her you're suddenly sober. Surprise, the girl's a golem. Your buddies who slipped you the pill all jump out and yell, "Surprise, golem f*ker!".

You're signing the paperwork for a new GM vehicle. Your buddies are all laughing on the other side of the glass, outside the finance manager's office laughing at you. You suddenly wake from your drunken stupor. All your buddies yell, "Surprise, you own a gov't car!"

Posted by: bonhomme at February 18, 2013 02:51 PM (WnZQb)

179 175 Ace didn't know it(I don't think,he was thinking it would have to be electronic),I know a lot of gun guys on here know it.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 02:52 PM (9XBK2)

180 So if you're suddenly sober do you still have a killer hangover to deal with?

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 18, 2013 02:52 PM (q+XGX)

181 How long until MADD gets a law passed mandating bouncers force-feed you these pills when you leave the club / bar?

I can't wait for the Youtube videos. Dude's sloppy drunk, bouncer manhandles him, forces the pill down, suddenly dude snaps out of it and becomes Alfred Pennyworth proper.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 18, 2013 02:55 PM (WnZQb)

182 I used to love ST:TNG and it was one of the first series that I actually plowed through over about 2 weeks on Netflix.
The longer it went on, the more I hated it.
Recycled plots, of course, but The Star Trek Tech Ex Machina crap made me realize what utter schlock it was. Write yourself into a corner, no worries, TECH saves the day.
The Prime Directive really hosed them too. Should have unloaded that somehow or stuck to it. O r maybe changed it to the Secondary Directive?

Any other Star Trek besides TOS and Enterprise are unwatchable. DS9 is BORING AS HELL. Seriously, I tried to watch it a few times but I wound up taking a nap every time.

I despise every cast member on Voyager. Voyager was just appallingly awful.

I did the same thing with SG1. I hate that now also for different reasons. Around Season 5 I think the cast stopped giving a shit. After RDA left, I stopped watching it. But it was actually compelling and original for a while.

I think Battlestar Galactica and Firefly hold up pretty well with repeated viewing probably because they're the best SciFi series ever besides ST:TOS.

Posted by: CozMark at February 18, 2013 03:04 PM (AogGt)

183 Synthehol didn't let you get drunk and turn it off, you just didn't get drunk at all. It's basically supposed to simulate the taste of an alcoholic beverage without the intoxication. It's like the Diet Soda of booze.

Posted by: CrankyTRex at February 18, 2013 03:06 PM (08O0O)

184 Except TOS, of course. They had Whimsical Endings there, when they would freeze-frame on Kirk and McCoy laughing at Spock.

Nice save, you've spared yourself the Wrath of Trek Geeks

Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2013 03:09 PM (mCvL4)

185 183 Synthehol didn't let you get drunk and turn it off, you just didn't get drunk at all. It's basically supposed to simulate the taste of an alcoholic beverage without the intoxication. It's like the Diet Soda of booze. Posted by: CrankyTRex at February 18, 2013 07:06 PM

It's just a fancy nerd tech name for O'Doul's

Posted by: kbdabear at February 18, 2013 03:12 PM (mCvL4)

186 BSG sucked donkey dick. 1) It was blatantly pro-Iraqi insurgent in the middle of the Iraq War so, you know, fuck them. 2) They lied. They promised a "plan" from the beginning. There was no plan. It just became incoherent babbling. The 2003 mini-series was great. The 1st season was good. The rest sucked donkey dick.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 18, 2013 03:14 PM (ZPrif)

187 I liked SG1 a lot. And TNG was excellent -- when viewed as God intended ... half-drunk at 2am.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 18, 2013 03:16 PM (ZPrif)

188 The gov will prob want to ban this because they like people breaking their laws.

Posted by: Baldy at February 18, 2013 03:18 PM (opS9C)

189 186 Agreed,I quit watching half way through the second season because I sensed the shit to come.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2013 03:30 PM (9XBK2)

190 Reminds me of one of the commercial products in Heinlein's novella "Magic Inc."

There were magic desserts that would vanish after you ate them.

Posted by: Whitehall at February 18, 2013 04:15 PM (1+mGd)

191 wheatie said: They've been working on a 'Sobriety Pill' for quite a while.
I first heard of it about 15 years ago.

I'm trying to remember what the problem has been with it...some bad side effect

I realize I'm late with this, but if you happen to see this wanted to pass on that you're right.

A team out of Merck was working on a compound called alpha5Ia, which was found to eliminate the memory-deficits found when you get fucked up to have stupid, unprotected sex with someone you don't wish to remember the next morning. AFAIK, there was pressure to sideline the compound for legal reasons: don't enable people to drink and still believe they're functional.

That said, it's still a solid structural lead which never completely disappeared from the R&D rotation as it has nice nootropic (learning and memory enhancing) properties in most every test we throw it against without the anxiety promoting/anxiogenic effects seen in most compounds that reduce GABAergic firing.

Anyways, if you're ever on Jeapordy...

Posted by: Uriah Heep at February 18, 2013 04:18 PM (jhI6f)

192 I'd be surprised if this specific implementation for alcohol metabolism amounted to much as the legal ramifications are huge.

Good luck not getting sued to hell and back when a 17 year old girl or frat-house gets a hold of some and decide to push the limits. 3/4ths a keg of Coors Light later when some ass finally feels like a goldfish and, having stopped dosing on this enzyme because he 'feels fine', the latent Coors which can only enter his system at a fixed rate decides to join in on the fun inside where his liver is now multiples beyond what it can endogenously cope with, his blood with be as disgusting as Coors Light, just a little reddish color.

Posted by: Uriah Heep at February 18, 2013 04:27 PM (jhI6f)

193 Does anyone else remember Harry Harriman predicting this in a scifi novel?

Posted by: Tom H at February 18, 2013 05:02 PM (0AN2v)

194 Hell, I'm pretty sure Saint Augustine predicted it in Carthage.

Posted by: comatus at February 18, 2013 05:20 PM (qaVK+)

195 @193 The idea of "sober-up" pills has been used as a throwaway in countless science fiction stories. I can't think of a particular example, but I've seen plenty of stories where the protagonist casually took a sober-up pill. I think I also remember one where someone handed sober-up pills to the protagonist, who didn't want to become not-drunk but grudgingly took them.

Posted by: mr_jack at February 18, 2013 06:50 PM (P0N+7)

196 I recommend Lindsay Lohan, since she'll be available cheap. She quoted me $500/hour. Wait...what are we talking about?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at February 19, 2013 05:15 AM (1hM1d)

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